Two posts ago we showed you the digit sound system for remembering numbers. This week we provide two computer programs to help you create mnemonics.
Posts Tagged ‘ Python ’
Interview with Kai Chew, CloudStat
Here is an interview with Kai Chew, Founder of Cloudstat. CloudStat is developing a cloud-based statistical platform to help researchers who want to make sense of data to do statistical analysis collaboratively with its high performance computing infra...
Web scraping with Python – the dark side of data
In searching for some information on web-scrapers, I found a great presentation given at Pycon in 2010 by Asheesh Laroia. I thought this might be a valuable resource for R users who are looking for ways to gather data from user-unfriendly websites. The...
Popular Baby Names Walk-Through Part 2 – Graphing the fast movers
I will assume you have read through part 1 and have the csv file loaded. While we covered some basic graphing in the last post i hope to get into a little more of the data crunching. Specifically I am interested in the names which where driven by a spe...
Popular Baby Names Walk-Through Part 1 – Web Scrapping and ggploting
This is the first walk-through I have posted. Reading these types of posts has been incredibly helpful as I have been learning R and other useful tools in the Unix universe. Hopefully you find it helpful. First, I have been watching Google Python Video...
Please use sensible colours in your maps
If you are creating maps then for goodness sake Use sensible colours! I was helping some undergraduates with some work the other day, and they decided to use the following colour scheme for representing river depth: Deep water: Red Medium-depth water: Bright green Shallow water: Pink Why did they do this? Well, either they...
What’s there to like about R?
Update 10/11/2011: There’s a good discussion on RedditUpdate 10/12/2011: Note manipulate package and highlight data.table packageThe R statistical computing platform is a rising star that’s been gaining popularity and attention, but it gets no respect in the hood. It’s telling … Continue reading → No related posts.
New release with Batch processing
This week we rolled out a new release at cloudnumbers.com which implements two new main features: cloudnumbers.com now supports Batch processing. Due to some changes in the architecture we were able to reduce our system requirements. In detail, we do not need that much open ports in your firewall. Please check our updated System...
A simple example for writting parallel code
Today, programmers have to deal with multi-core and multi-computer technologies. Several people claim that software developers are far behind hardware technologies. My two favorite posts for this statement are Editor’s Desk: Software Lags Behind Hardware, But That’s a Good Thing A Hacker’s Craic -Why is software so far behind hardware? Parallel computing is not...
Seriously … why don’t math classes use computers?…
Seriously … why don’t math classes use computers? Excel, simple Python scripts, Mathematica / Sage, everything beyond the TI-83. Kids could be creating totally sweet visuals instead of cribbing formulae. And thinking instead of copying. I can sa...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
