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Have a Website? Blog? Webpage?  Wondering how much you website is worth? Take a deep breath, go directly to the links below and have it GRADED! How Much is Your Blog Worth ? – Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, I’ve created this little applet using Technorati’s [...]

I was reading this blog post on Revolutions Computing’s blog and discovered the vcasmo service, a way to post a presentation or video with the slides right next to it. This is DEFINITELY something I will use. Often times I watch talks or presentation videos online and most of the time the videos are either focused on [...]

Online Books Statistics with R by Vincent Zoonekynd, 2007   It covers 1. Introduction to R 2. Programming in R 3. From Data to Graphics 4. Customizing graphics 5. Factorial methods: Around Principal Component Analysis (PCA) 6. Clustering 7. Probability Distributions 8. Estimators and Statistical Tests 9. Regression 10. Other regressions 11. Regression Problems — [...]

When doing math or numerical analysis, the knowledge of the technique is far too often tied to the tool performing the calculation.  Consider an engineer whose understanding of the Fast Fourier transformation is inseparably tied to the fft function in Matlab.  Of course this hypothetical engineer understands what the results mean (more or less) but [...]

Microsoft Word has long been the prime digital pen friend of ours. There is a saying amongst the geeks that you can never know every thing about MS Word. Its so vast! But you can certainly learn some. So why don’t I tell you some not-so-known keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word, which will make your [...]

Many Eyes [FREE] Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project. Tasty Data Goodies – Swivel [Not Free] Swivel is a website where people share reports of charts and [...]

I’ve always hated the fact that in order to watch a video on YouTube in full screen you couldn’t use your 2nd monitor. This drove me nuts, and recently I started looking for a solution, which I figured had to be out there. Step 1 Go to a video on YouTube, in this example I [...]

This article talks about how to control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for folks who have two (or more) computers set up at home and find themselves regularly sliding from one system to the other (and wearing out the carpet in the process!). Simply put, you will [...]

Although Windows Vista / Windows 7  has a good desktop search software built in, I still find it too slow to work with, and the results are not as I expected most of the time. I will introduce two lighting fast program, they are Locate32, and my favourite: Everything. If you want to find a [...]

This website will introduce you to some of the most important ideas in computer programming in an interactive, visual way through a guided activity. The activity is about a language for describing pictures. You will use a computer program that lets you type a sentence in the language, and shows you the picture that it [...]