Learn to use and visualize K-Means Cluster Analysis in R with the 2020 Economic Freedom Index Data from The Heritage Foundation — Objectives Use K-Means Clustering Algorithm in R Determine the right amount of clusters Create tables and visualizations of the clusters Download, extract, and load complex Excel files from the web into R Clean, wrangle, and filter the data efficiently Introduction K-Means clustering is an unsupervised machine learning technique that is quite useful…

Using ARIMA models and the Case-Shiller Index with some creative R programming lets us predict national housing prices for the next year. How can that be?! Let’s find out! — Objectives Predict the next year of US housing prices Get experience with using real economic data Visualize the data Understand underlying assumptions about the data Learn about predictive modeling using the ARIMA method Introduction

Let me share the glory of the full_join() function with you using the R language! Have you ever been working with multiple tables of data in R and had trouble merging them into a single table? Did you go to Google to tell you to “just use rbind” or see…

DDoS is one of the most popular buzz worthy terms in the cybersecurity world, but many people have no idea what it really means. …

How much fun do you think having a virus or worm infecting your system is? If your answer is zero and an absolutely horrible time, you’d be correct. We all have been told a gazillion times that viruses are bad. We cybersecurity people tell you not to click on links…

How scammers and legitimate companies use social engineering techniques to attempt to induce fear and siphon money from you. Purchasing a house is the single largest financial transaction in which the average person will ever take part [1]. There is a lot of money on the line. It is often…

Ransomware is growing in popularity and is becoming more damaging to businesses around the world. Almost 8% of global cyber attacks costing enterprises of an average of over $4.6 million per breach stem from ransomware as an initial attack vector [1]. Is your business prepared to deal with the consequences? What is Ransomware and Why Does It Work? …

Whether you like it or not, people are programmed with some kind of human nature that is built into us at a fundamental level that serves as a dependency to build up our individual psychological profile. …

Introduction Nobody wants to waste time and money dealing with a data breach or removing malicious software from systems. We need to be straight about something here. People love to click on links. The world works by clicking links, but clicking the wrong ones will derail your business and life. I…