Archive for 2007
Zotero now talks to MS Word
28 April 2007Zotero has released a first integration plugin for MS Word. Pretty useful if you need to move your bibtex into a Word document.
Lecture 14: Enough theory, show me some action
25 April 2007This lecture review some tools for innovation and creativity support developed under the DISCUS project. We reviewed some of the uses of the technologies presented in the course when used on real-world marketing applications.
Some Examples of PCA in R
24 April 2007You may find some notes about how to do PCA in R in my DITA blog.
Eclipse Metrics Plugins
19 April 2007I have run into a couple of plugins for Eclipse to compute several measure about the code you have in your project. The one I currently use is Eclipse Metrics Plugin.
This Eclipse plugin calculates various metrics for your code during build cycles and warns you, via the Problems view, of range violations for each metric. This allows you to stay continuously aware of the health of your code base. You may also export the metrics to HTML for public display or to CSV format for further analysis.
If you may also like to test Metrics, this one with some viz about the software. It is much more flexible and complete than the previous one.
GE498-ECI, Lecture 13: Social means interaction (II): Influence diffusion in social networks
18 April 2007Continuation of GE498-ECI, Lecture 12: Social means interaction (I): Learning what you like.
Ben Shneiderman at UIUC
18 April 2007
You can find my notes for his presentation here.
Is your MacBook Pro running too hot?
17 April 2007The first generations of MacBook Pros tend to run too hot because the low rpm set by default. The new ones have doubled the rpm speed. If you have a first generation on and want to boost the fans a bit to make it run a little cooler, you may find two tool apps to increase the fan speed here.
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Machine learning & Statistical Learning in R
17 April 2007Torsten Horthorn maintains a page with a list of packages for machine learning and statistical learning in R.
University of Illinois vs a Mummy
16 April 2007A hidden treasure found in the Urbana Free Library. University of Illinois vs a Mummy is a movie made by students at UofI. If you have never been in UofI you will find this movie pretty hilarious.
PCA & ICA
16 April 2007I found a couple of interesting tutorials. One is on principal component analysis by Lindsay I. Smith and the second one is about independent component analysis by Hyvärinen and Oja. Good introductions if that is what you are looking for.