Geocoding Tools

Found this on a blog post (lifehacker?)
http://mapalist.com/

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[Tool] Sentence Diagramming

One thing I’ve wanted for a while is a piece of software to diagram sentences for me.  After a mildly exhaustive search, and several emails the Stanford Natural Language Parser is about as good as I could find.  I know natural language is an excruciatingly difficult field, and I know that I wouldn’t be able [...]

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[Project] Building the Right Tool for Data Analysis

Brief Description
Ever find yourself setting up your workspace on another computer, at another job, wasting a day or two, getting frustrated by those tricks you forgot in the setup or finding new ones specific to that platform?  I have that problem about 4 times a year.  I’m tired of it.  I have a workspace setup.  [...]

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Creating an R Library

It is not trivial to create a fortran/C library for R, so I have put together some notes and code samples for myself.  I’ll update this more when I have some time.  It’s for my reference, but it has been useful for my friends, and I put it here because it may be useful to [...]

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Blog Infrastructure

There are a few things nagging at me about my site, the data I collect, and the feedback cycle it ought to be a part of.  To collect data, I have been using google’s webmaster tools.  I also need to get a sitemap setup at some point, but not until I have a decent product.  [...]

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Text Editors…

Why a text editor?
You could install an IDE specific to whatever it is you’re working on, and use more for quick views, but I find the need for two text editors on a daily basis.  One that opens files fast, and another that has all the bells and whistles.
For the former, I had been a [...]

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[OS X] Setting up SQuirreL SQL Client

necessary item in data analysis is a central data repository which is accessible to all programs/users, and SQL is the choice here.  And to directly manipulate the SQL database, we need a client.  For that, I chose Squirrel, based on the recommendation of a former colleague and his delight at its autocomplete.  As a noob, [...]

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Hosting and Domain Names

what I know about domains and hosting:
domain = word address (usually about $10/yr through godaddy, google, etc)
hosting = ip address (implicitly the machine at that ip address with an OS, programs, disk space, etc)
DNS is the map that points the domain a use enters to the ip address of the machine that hosts your website.
It’s [...]

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File Permissions and Apache Web Servers

I was going to stick it on the web, but I’ll put it in your folder- here’s the full story on files, directories, who has access, etc
Answer to “where’s my file” at the bottom…
Aside # 1)
I 701′d the media directory.
rwx—–x
(701 is fancy code for chmod u=rwx o=x) The file is there, you just aren’t allowed [...]

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[OS X] Installing GIMP

Before I can actually feel comfortable about posting anything real, I felt it important to customize the blog mildly (queue image).  For this task, I installed gimp (link below).  Note that this is the only command line option needed to make gimp run smoother
defaults write com.apple.X11 wm_click_through -bool true
then I did a crop and resize.

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