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knitr: Elegant, flexible and fast dynamic report generation with R | knitr

"The knitr package was designed to be a transparent engine for dynamic report generation with R, solve some long-standing problems in Sweave, and combine features in other add-on packages into one package (knitr ≈ Sweave + cacheSweave + pgfSweave + weaver + R2HTML::RweaveHTML + highlight::HighlightWeaveLatex + 0.2 * brew + 0.1 * SweaveListingUtils + more)."

R-language LaTeX typesetting dynamic-documents writing tools
5 weeks ago by Vaguery

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Welcome to the Group Pattern Language Project | Group Works

"This deck of 91 full-colour cards names what skilled facilitators and other participants do to make things work. The content is more specific than values and less specific than tips and techniques, cutting across existing methodologies with a designer's eye to capture the patterns that repeat. The deck can be used to plan sesssions, reflect on and debrief them, provide guidance, and share responsibility for making the process go well. It has the potential to provide a common reference point for practitioners, and serve as a framework and learning tool for those studying the field. "

via:bkerr collaboration design-patterns tools social-dynamics
february 2012 by Vaguery

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Cool, but obscure unix tools :: KKovacs

Just a list of 20 (now 24) little-known tools for the command line -- I hope you find something useful that you weren't aware of yet! Use your operating system's package manager to install most of them. (Thanks for the tips, everybody!)

utilities unix tools lists via:?
may 2011 by Vaguery

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Walking Randomly » Natural Scientists: their very big output files – and a tale of diffs

"A few years back, when a user at the University of Manchester asked for help with the ‘diff – files too big/ out of memory’ problem, I wrote a modern version that I called idiffh (for Ian’s diffh). My ground rules were:<br />
Work on any text files on any operating system with a C compilerHave no limits on, e.g., line lengths or file sizeNever ‘give up’ if the going gets tough (i.e. when the files are very different)"

diff text-mining dataset open-science tools from delicious
april 2011 by Vaguery

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[1005.1320] The myth of equidistribution for high-dimensional simulation

"…For example, when estimating a contour integral of an analytic function, we might transform the contour to a circle and use equally spaced points on the circle.

However, when simulating Canberra’s future climate and water supply, it would not be a good idea to assume that exceptionally dry years were equally spaced!…"

nudge-targets quasirandom-numbers pseudorandom-numbers modeling simulation algorithms micropragmatism tools explanatory-power complexology machine-learning
may 2010 by Vaguery

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Dan's Blog - Pivotal Tracker API - new version (V3) to be released on Jan. 23

"We're planning a Pivotal Tracker upgrade on Jan 23. As part of this release, we will be introducing a new API version (V3), which will make it easier to follow project activity, allow you to add file attachments, move (re-prioritize) stories, associate source commits with stories, and more."

API Pivotal-Tracker project-management tools software-development agility agile-management
january 2010 by Vaguery

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Open-source software for Operations Research and Industrial Engineering

"This page contains links to some of the most useful free software and open-source software for operations research and industrial engineering."

operations-research open-source software libraries engineering optimization tools
november 2009 by Vaguery

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Limelight

"Let's face it, plain app apps don't cut it any more. These days, users have to be thrilled and entertained. Limelight promotes this attitude to the core. In Limelight you don't build applications, you build theatrical Productions. Limelight provides a Theater in which you open Scenes, build Props, and cast Players to bring your Production to life and razzle-dazzle your audience."

programming applications software-development Ruby Java tools opensource GUI DSL CSS
november 2009 by Vaguery

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Zimpl

"Zimpl is a little language to translate the mathematical model of a problem into a linear or (mixed-) integer mathematical program expressed in .lp or .mps file format which can be read and (hopefully) solved by a LP or MIP solver."

operations-research problem-solving optimization language programming tools math programming-language AMPL mathematical-programming Nudge
november 2009 by Vaguery

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kuler
color design graphic-design community web2.0 tools reference themes palette colors
november 2009 by Vaguery

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Stitching science together : Article : Nature

"Solving the current problems in science communication requires the intervention of strong companies such as Google. But it will take more than technical advances to provoke scientists into taking full advantage of the web. We need pressure, and perhaps compulsion, from journals and funders to raise publishing standards to the new level made possible by such tools. Google Wave may not be, indeed is probably not, the whole answer. But it points the way to tools that build records and reproducibility into every step. And that has to be good for science."

communication scientific-computing google-wave collaboration science tools science2.0 academic-culture publishing
october 2009 by Vaguery

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Unix Toolbox

"This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. This is a practical guide with concise explanations, however the reader is supposed to know what s/he is doing.

Unix Toolbox revision 14.1
The latest version of this document can be found at http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml. Replace .xhtml on the link with .pdf for the PDF version and with .book.pdf for the booklet version. On a duplex printer the booklet will create a small book ready to bind. This XHTML page can be converted into a nice PDF document with a CSS3 compliant application (see the script example). See also the about page."

unix system-administration sysadmin tools reference administration documentation tips cheatsheet
october 2009 by Vaguery

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Tile Drawer

"OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world that anyone can edit. You can get the raw data for roads around the world, set up a server, design a new map style, and have your own personal online interactive maps. In the past, this has been difficult owing to the large volume of data required and the hassles of system administration. Tile Drawer is designed to make this process easy with a custom-configured Amazon EC2 machine image (AMI) that gets you up and running with just two pieces of information: a custom stylesheet that you choose, and the geographical location of a part of the world you'd like rendered."

maps mapping openstreetmap tools cloud-computing API S3
october 2009 by Vaguery

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About us | Prezi

"Prezi is zooming sketches on a digital napkin.

It's visualization and storytelling without slides. Your ideas live on stage and on the web.

Have you ever wondered about presenting your thoughts as free as they come? Ever got tired of creating a slideshow? It's been said, that the best innovations come from people who are unhappy with the tools they use. We realized that our ideas won't fit into slides anymore. Putting together creative thinking and technology expertise, we have created Prezi, a living presentation tool."

presentation visualization graphic-design resources powerpoint online tools
october 2009 by Vaguery

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Free Trademark Search | Protect Business Name | Interesting Name Ideas | Trademarkia
search-engines trademark intellectual-property images branding business law tools
september 2009 by Vaguery

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Code Intensity: GitHub Post-Receive Hook for Pivotal Tracker

"The service supports multiple GitHub repos and Tracker projects, so you can run a single service that integrates multiple projects. The service will figure out which commits go to which projects based on a config file on the server that associates a GitHub repo URL (make sure to use the http version of the URL, not https), to a Tracker project ID. For example:"

GitHub Pivotal-Tracker tools agile-management software-development project-management
september 2009 by Vaguery

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tpope's pickler at master - GitHub

"Synchronize user stories in Pivotal Tracker with Cucumber features."

Cucumber Pivotal-Tracker BDD collaboration Ruby agile project-management tools
september 2009 by Vaguery

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Copyediting: Man vs. Machine - (37signals)

"Lesson learned: Don’t be so quick to dismiss the old in favor of the new just because the new seems like it should be better. There’s a lot of subtlety that can be communicated in a pen stroke that can’t be fit into a rigid digital rule."

proofreading writing editing copyediting tools toolkit expertise lost-art
september 2009 by Vaguery

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GraphClick - Graph and Movie Digitizer for Mac OS X - Free Download

"You have the picture of a graph but not the corresponding data? You want to retrieve the trajectory of an object from a QuickTime movie? GraphClick is then simply the best way to solve the problem! You just have to click on the image and the obtained coordinates of the points can be directly exported into any other application."

MacOS visualization data software tools graphics utility analysis graphing extraction
august 2009 by Vaguery

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Hack Day tools for non-developers

"There’s only one rule at hack day: build something you can demonstrate at the end of the event (Powerpoint slides don’t count). Importantly though, our hack days are not restricted to just our development team: anyone from the technology department can get involved, and we extend the invitation to other parts of the organisation as well. At the Guardian, this includes journalists.

For our first hack day, I put together a list of “tools for non-developers”—sites, services and software that could be used for hacking without programming knowledge as a pre-requisite. I’m now updating that list with recommendations from elsewhere. Here’s the list so far:"

hacking education development teaching DIY learning-by-doing hackday tools
july 2009 by Vaguery

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scrumalliance's Profile - GitHub

Redmine plugins for making the platform more project-appropriate.

Redmine project-management plugin burndown agility tools
may 2009 by Vaguery

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TuneUp Update Brings New Features for Obsessive-Compulsive iTunes Users

"TuneUp is a great piece of software that does exactly what it claims to, but at the cost of being somewhat time-intensive. I highly recommend TuneUp to anyone looking to clean up their library, but offer the warning that it isn’t as simple as dragging all your music in and walking away for a few hours. If it were, it would truly be the “magic pill” of music organization."

iTunes tools usability plugin user-experience
may 2009 by Vaguery

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Pivotal Tracker - Why Use Pivotal Tracker?

"Tracker is a simple, story-based project planning tool that allows teams to collaborate and instantly react to real-world changes. It's based on agile software development methods, but it can be used on a variety of types of projects. Tracker frees you up to focus on getting things done, without getting bogged down keeping your plans in sync with reality."

agile project-management planning coordination tools Scrum iterative-work project-driven-lifestyle
april 2009 by Vaguery

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Project Wonderful

"Project Wonderful is an online advertising broker with an innovative model that brings fairness, transparency, and profitability to the advertising process."

advertising marketing blogging tools promotion ecommerce
march 2009 by Vaguery

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Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

"Once upon a time, I was working with a colleague who needed to do some quick data analysis to get a handle on the scope of a problem. He was considering importing the data into a database or writing a program to parse and summarize that data. Either of these options would have taken hours at least, and possibly days. I wrote this on his whiteboard:
Your friends: cat, find, grep, wc, cut, sort, uniq
These simple commands can be combined to quickly answer the kinds of questions for which most people would turn to a database, if only the data were already in a database. You can quickly (often in seconds) form and test hypotheses about virtually any record oriented data source."

programming Unix command-line tools data-analysis advice
march 2009 by Vaguery

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Changes

something to try

diff software programming development tools Leopard utilities MacOS version-control
january 2009 by Vaguery

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Agony 239 - 23 December 2008 - kelbv - www.kelbv.com
design graphics freeware generative-art tools
december 2008 by Vaguery

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Nelson's Weblog

"Two factor authentication is nothing new, but in the US it's unusual for it to be available in such a common consumer product. A lot of my friends who play the game have gotten authenticators for themselves after seeing people lose their accounts. Sure wish I could easily get the same protection at my bank."

auth&auth security WoW banking social-norms tools business-opportunity
december 2008 by Vaguery

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BOINC
grid-computing volunteerism crowdsourcing computation collaboration programming development community science research tools activism networking distributed opensource
december 2008 by Vaguery

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R: Statistical Software for Psychology Research

Nice intro to R

via:? software research statistics tools analytics reference tutorial documentation R visualization
november 2008 by Vaguery

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Mock - Mocking and Test Utilities
programming development library tools Python testing TDD agility
october 2008 by Vaguery

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Cucumber TextMate bundle
TextMate Rails BDD programming development library tools
october 2008 by Vaguery

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Socializing the analysis of the socialization of banking « Jon Udell

"When Allen Noren pointed to this visualization of U.S. government bailouts, I wanted to tweak it by showing the magnitudes on a timeline. I found this data set on Many Eyes, updated it with the number $700B, and made this bubble chart:..."