Mark Johnson at the IEC has posted a description about a personal analytics tool hat basically text mines all the text you leave around the web. He calls it the Personal Corpus. In fact I worked with him on a project about 5 years ago where you could ‘Like’ resources Read more…
Bah Humbug. I feel very annoyed at everything. Firstly I’m finding R a difficult language to penetrate. I’m getting there, its just hard. There are lots of resources and people willing to help you get to grips with the tool, but getting to grips with the tool isn’t the problem., Read more…
I quite often write letters to artists whose work I enjoy and I always remember those who find the time to reply. While I have fond childhood memories of receiving letters and emails from my favourite actor (thanks Cam Clarke) or band (thanks sense of belonging) I don’t remember as Read more…
Currently I’m trying to get into Shiny and R. I’m trying to build an app that plugs into a PHP app that I am currently writing (or rather rewriting). Progress is not fast. Currently I have the error message on my screen that looks like this: Error : evaluation nested Read more…
I’m currently trying to write an application in Shiny that talks to a MySQL database. While developing I got the following error message after I has started the server a few times: cannot allocate a new connection — maximum of 16 connections already > opened) It turns out that the Read more…
The chances are facebook will keep your data whatever you decide to do. But they do a funky trick of hiding the delete button and trying to convince you to ‘deactivate’ instead. To Delete an account: 1) Sign in 2)Head to http://www.facebook.con/help/delete_account 3)Press delete my account and fill in the Read more…
My first job required me to write some software in PHP; the good thing about PHP is that everybody seems to be able to use it. This means that if I’m stuck a quick Google search will find me a solution. However, I do find that much of the help Read more…
This was a real pain in the ass for me. There are a few steps, I did them all in the terminal because I don’t really know my way around CentOS 6. Firstly I got an error about the Cloudera-search Repo not being able to find a certain file. This Read more…
A vistor of the blog and ‘all round stack overflow good guy’ Ben Marwick pointed me in the direction of the fantastic blog: Prochronisms. or: Downton Crabbey. Using TV anachronisms to learn about changes in language, and trying to avoid complete curmudgeonhood in the process. From what I can gather Ben Schmidt takes scripts of modern Read more…
Previously I’ve mentioned how valuable Stack Overflow is as a resource when getting into a new such as R but yet again I’ve been blown away by just how generous people are with their time. Last week I was incredibly stuck using R. I had been stuck on the same Read more…
