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• How to Create and Extend a Data Manager

  

  By adfm : 26 May 2010 - 09:59 AM

  You'll want to use a data manager to abstract and encapsulate access to your data. It's an object that provides a consistent interface to get and set data on the backend. This excerpt from Kyle Loud...

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  • web app
  • PHP
  • data
  • access
  • AJAX

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• Mathematica's hidden abilities: Music, programming and visualizations

  

  By macslocum : 13 May 2010 - 04:56 AM

  I'll admit I know almost nothing about Mathematica. I've heard of it, certainly. I tinkered with it a few times, too. But until I spoke with Sal Mangano, author of the "Mathematica Cookbook," I assume...

  Tags:

  • visualization
  • music
  • math
  • Mathematica
  • data

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• How to Summarize Data Using Sparklines in Excel 2010

  

  By kbnotes : 18 April 2010 - 06:51 AM

  Creating charts in Excel 2010 workbooks enables you to summarize your data visually, using legends, labels, and colors to highlight aspects of your data. It is possible to create very small charts to ...

  Tags:

  • Excel
  • Excel 2010
  • Office
  • Office 2010
  • Sparkline
  • data
  • format
  • formatting
  • worksheet

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• How to visualize Data on the iPad

  

  By MikeH : 09 April 2010 - 08:32 AM

  I really want my iPad to be a all around utility tool for entertainment, travel, business and pretty much anything I need some computing power to accomplish. So I set out looking for business apps tha...

  Tags:

  • ipad
  • Roambi
  • data
  • visualize
  • visualizing data

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• How to Get Started with Processing

  

  By adfm : 17 March 2010 - 04:40 PM

  Are you a creative type that would like to get started with designing and prototyping with Processing? In this excerpt from Visualizing Data Ben Fry introduces the Processing Environment and quickly g...

  Tags:

  • prototype
  • arduino
  • sketch
  • processing
  • visualization
  • data
  • new data science
  • nds

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• Does anyone have or know any good Twitter Trends scraping tools? Preferrably Perl or Python...

  Asked by MikeH : 03 December 2009 - 10:00 AM

  Tags:

  • twitter
  • perl
  • scraping
  • data
  • analysis

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• Is there an easy way to get the results of a SQL query into a new table?

  Asked by MikeH : 19 November 2009 - 09:04 AM

  

  Answered by KBenson : Nov 19 2009 01:04 PM
  In MySQL you can use the result of a select for the values of an insert. mysql> create table t1 ( one int, two int, three char(10)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.09 sec) mysql> create table t... full answer >

  Tags:

  • sql
  • data
  • tables
  • help

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• Use iPhone Core Data Templates

  

  By tobyjoe : 06 November 2009 - 07:03 PM

  The iPhone 3.0 update to the iPhone OS and iPhone SDK included a great new feature, ported from Mac OS X, called Core Data. Core Data is used to store objects in a local database that can be...

  Tags:

  • iPhone
  • data
  • templates
  • objective-c
  • sqlite

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• How to Choose the Honest Average

  

  By BruceFrey : 30 October 2009 - 04:50 PM

  Data-driven decisions, such as whether you can afford to buy a house in a new town or who the core market is for your business, often rely on the "average" as the best description for a larg...

  Tags:

  • median
  • mode
  • trends
  • statistics
  • mean
  • average
  • data

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• Geocoding and Data Checking 436,106 Addresses

  

  By kiwitobes : 30 October 2009 - 04:33 PM

  We had a project where, when we first looked at the data, we thought it would be really important to geocode 436,106 unique addresses. That is, we wanted to associate a latitude and longitude wit...

  Tags:

  • data
  • validation
  • geocoding

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