Archive for October, 2011
A brief introduction to R.
First course. To begin with download a dataset and load it into R. Lets take a dataset from datamarket.com. For example compensations per hour of Manufacturing Sector. To load the above downloaded CSV into R call the ‘read.csv’ function as follows. > compensation = read.csv(“compensationperhour.csv”,header=TRUE, + sep=”;”,quote=”\”",dec=”.”,fill=TRUE) you can check if the above data is [...]
Designing by intuition
Designing by intuition Sometime during winter last year, I moved to a used cold shell apartment. I had to fit a new geyser in my bathroom. The most obvious place to fit the geyser was close to the ceiling near the water line outlets. The old apartment bathroom had broken plasters and other traces of [...]
New Facebook: Time of Your Life
The wait is over. Mark Zukerberg unveiled a host of new updates to Facebook at the F8 Conference. Just after Google’s attempts to shake up the social network scene a bit with the uber sexy G+, there was a widespread speculation among the tech community on Facebook’s ability to react and survive. But it looks [...]
gui for mongodb
We have been using mongodb for few of our projects for the last few years. One of the things we have missed a lot is a gui for doing some of the routine things, try a query, look at some of the data, a few collections and the other usual fun stuff. Though there are [...]