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Introduction

Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is a mission critical task underpinning the predominance of detection development and preparation for cybersecurity-centric machine learning. There are a number of actions that analysts can take to better understand a particular data set and ready it for more robust utilization. In the spirit of toolsmith, and celebration of this being the 150th issue since toolsmith’s inception in late 2006, consider what follows a collection of tools for your security data analytics tool kit.

I regularly challenge myself and others to visualize the results of their analysis, when and where the data permits it. The likes of ggplot2 enables this beautifully for R users. Then, in September 2018, gganimate hit my radar via R-bloggers and I had an epiphany.