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In my previous blog I talked 6 website dedicated to visualizations. Google now has its own Data Explorer. “​The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don’t have to be a [...]

A new crop of journal reference management applications have emerged within the last 18 months.  The term “journal reference management” is used here as opposed to the older term “bibliographic management” to emphasize the importance of managing and linking the bibliographic data with the PDFs.
The biggest frustration for the busy scientists is the difficulty [...]

Looking for a good place to host your website or blog? There are a variety of different things that you should consider before choosing a web host. The thing about web hosting is, once you pick a host and get your website setup, it can be very difficult to switch hosts in the future.
Thus, picking [...]

Do you think you have a noble idea worth patenting?  Whether it is a new recipe for cooking stew or a new banking scheme that will save the world economy – before publishing it with claims of ownership, it is a a good idea to check if that idea is already owned or patented by [...]

Introduction to collateralized debt obligations (to be listen to after series on mortgage-backed securities).

Does the bailout have a chance of working?

Credit Default Swaps

Credit Default Swaps 2

Part I of the introduction to mortgage-backed securities

Part II of the introduction to mortgage-backed securities

More on mortgage-backed securities

This is one of 14 different videos if you have a home, thinking of buying a home or had a home and is now wondering why your living in a box. this is a good explanation of whats going on. When I’ve tired to read books on the subject I just get all con-foozed. because [...]

I noticed that there are many people comparing Matlab with Maple, Mathematica etc. to find out what’s the best Maths package for them. But many of them didn’t realize the limitations of Matlab. I put up an article about the Birthday Problem in probability, If you try to solve it analytically like:
[cc lang='matlab' ]
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