Passwords

This week’s data is all about passwords. Data is sourced from Information is Beautiful, with the graphic coming from the same group here.

There’s lots of additional information about password quality & strength in the source Doc. Please note that the “strength” column in this dataset is relative to these common aka “bad” passwords and YOU SHOULDN’T USE ANY OF THEM!

Wikipedia has a nice article on password strength as well.

Get the data here

# Get the Data

passwords <- readr::read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/main/data/2020/2020-01-14/passwords.csv')

# Or read in with tidytuesdayR package (https://github.com/dslc-io/tidytuesdayR)
# PLEASE NOTE TO USE 2020 DATA YOU NEED TO UPDATE tidytuesdayR from GitHub

# Either ISO-8601 date or year/week works!

# Install via pak::pak("dslc-io/tidytuesdayR")

tuesdata <- tidytuesdayR::tt_load('2020-01-14') 
tuesdata <- tidytuesdayR::tt_load(2020, week = 3)


passwords <- tuesdata$passwords

Data Dictionary

`passwords.csv`

variable	class	description
rank	double	popularity in their database of released passwords
password	character	Actual text of the password
category	character	What category does the password fall in to?
value	double	Time to crack by online guessing
time_unit	character	Time unit to match with value
offline_crack_sec	double	Time to crack offline in seconds
rank_alt	double	Rank 2
strength	double	Strength = quality of password where 10 is highest, 1 is lowest, please note that these are relative to these generally bad passwords
font_size	double	Used to create the graphic for KIB