Tag: basics

  • Simplified Ransomware detection (1/2)

    I said I would move away from the Netflows examples for a while, and so I shall. Let’s try something a bit different: Detecting Ransomware through a (very) simplistic approach. As always, this is just an exercise, a demo of the approach one could potentially use. So some things are going to be simplified here.…

  • On Domain Expertise

    Once again I will step away from purely “programming” concepts, but this is tangent to say the least. This entry is more about theory of Data Science and one particular aspect, that is the “Domain Knowledge”. Speaking the right language There are discussions out there in the Project Management field, for example, about whether or…

  • On Sampling

    In a past exercise (the one on a simplified visualization of Netflows), I had a very big file, and I wanted to extract a subset of the data to demo a visualization. The first part of the entry was about a way to divide a big file into smaller chunks, and extract samples with a…