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    Mashups For Planning

    Posted on Wednesday 1 June 2011 by adnanned

    I came across this presentation on “Mashups for Planning” on slideshare, so thought to share it.
    TECH 101 – Mashups For Planning
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    Amazon’s Kindle is selling more than paperback books

    Posted on Wednesday 25 May 2011 by adnanned

    In the United States, Amazon customers are now buying more digital books than all paperback books. For every 100 print books Amazon sells, it pushes 105 Kindle books. Sales figures in the UK are quickly catching up, and Amazon this …

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    Visualising spatial data in R

    Posted on Sunday 1 May 2011 by adnanned

    You can use R to read a shape file, join it with your data, and visualise the results. Following source code does that. This source code reads in a shape file and a data file. It expects that the first …

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    Accessing R from C#.Net

    Posted on Wednesday 20 April 2011 by adnanned

    I tried accessing R from C#.Net and it went successfull. R is an excellent mathematical/statistical component, but then interfacing R with C# enables programmers to design front ends in C#. So the software required are: 1. R (download from here) …

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    RStudio

    Posted on Wednesday 13 April 2011 by adnanned

    RStudio is a new integrated development environment (IDE) for R. RStudio is the new way for programming in R, and it provides a set of powerful coding tools. Free & Open Source RStudio is available under a free software license. …

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    Cloud Computing

    Posted on Tuesday 12 April 2011 by adnanned

    Cloud.CM is a cloud computing website that uses latest technology to allow users to compute processor and memory intensive tasks on the cloud. Users can use Cloud.CM to create, store, and share files while simultaneously collaborating with friends, family, and …

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    Connecting GMapCreator and R

    Posted on Wednesday 6 April 2011 by adnanned

    I wrote this code last year. It allows you to call GMapCreator from R. You should have GMapCreator, R, and Java installed on your machine. The source code uses “rJava” package to call GMapCreator. To download the source code please …

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    Parallel Multicore Processing with R

    Posted on Wednesday 6 April 2011 by adnanned

    Today, i tried to run R code on multiple cores of a processor. It requires “doSMP” and “revoIPC” packages. They are not yet available on CRAN, but can be downloaded from here. Once the packages are downloaded and installed, following …

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    iPad 2 Review

    Posted on Monday 28 March 2011 by adnanned

    Last year, Apple launched their 9.7-inch touchscreen tablet (iPad) and shocked the computing world. It was called a large-format iPhone by some. Early reviews about iPad were realy good, however, some criticized it due to the lack of Adobe Flash …

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    England and Wales Crime data heat maps (January, 2011 Crime data)

    Posted on Friday 18 March 2011 by adnanned

    I created the heat maps application for England and Wales by using the crime data from www.police.uk. The Heat maps show all the crimes recorded by a police authority. There are 43 police authorities in England and Wales. You will …

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    An interactive map of Poverty around the world

    Posted on Friday 18 March 2011 by adnanned

    A UK-based charity “Christian Aid” has created a nice interactive world map of poverty around different countries, over a period of 200 years. The map can be viewed online at http://www.povertyover.com.

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    Heatmap of Crime in London, December 2010

    Posted on Tuesday 15 March 2011 by adnanned

    Oliver O’brien (A researcher in UCL) created a nice heatmap of Crime in London by using crime data for december, 2010. The map can be viewed by clicking here.

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