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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Geolocation script even works using surrounding WiFi BSSID’s – disregarded pairing over 3G
Posted by on June 28, 2012
Mobile tracking device? What is the reliability of the results? Can you really “find” someone?
Used incorrectly: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/06/29/swat-team-raids-wrong-home-wifi/
The importance of context to data – IP Address vs Geolocate MAC Address
Posted by on June 27, 2012
If this is my IP Address 64.134.26.153, where am I located?
According to the map, I’m in Texas!
We wrote a script to geolocate my Macbook Pro to the available WiFi, real location. Kinko’s in Vancouver BC routes all their Internet traffic via Texas.
IP Address tracking = FAIL.
WiFi MAC Address = WIN.
Get code here: https://github.com/dgleebits/PythonSystemAdminTools/blob/master/geolocationOSX.py
Using skLearn & iPython for predictive analytics, clustering and visualizations
Posted by on June 19, 2012
Screenshot below shows dataset
This is example of the clustering algorithm in action and result visualized
http://jakevdp.github.com/tutorial/astronomy/general_concepts.html
The importance of cleaning your data – Word Cloud of 3000 Tweets
Posted by on June 16, 2012
Here is a visualization of pure tweet dump visualized by Wordle
Visualization below with months, and days of the week removed. Mixed case dominates
Final version fully cleaned of dates, punctuation, and mixed case influences
It’s clear what I like to tweet about. The bigger the word, the more it was tweeted. I also decided to really preprocess the data with this script: https://github.com/dgleebits/Twitter-Friend-or-Foe/blob/master/tweetClean.py
Data file: https://github.com/dgleebits/Twitter-Friend-or-Foe/blob/master/TweetBackup15June2012
