Category: Internet

Jeroen Ooms’s latest APP #rstats #appiness

Jeroen Ooms, famed inventor of Open CPU and advanced Web Apps, just released a new app.

Source-

https://public.opencpu.org/posts/knitr-markdown-opencpu-app/

A new   OpenCPU app allows you to knit and markdown in the browser. It has a unique  code editor which automatically updates the output after 3 seconds of inactivity. It uses the Ace web editor with mode-r.js (thanks to RStudio ).

the source package lives in the opencpu app repo on github. You can try it out on the public cloud server

#install the package
library(devtools)
install_github("markdownapp", "opencpu")

#open it in opencpu
library(opencpu)
opencpu$browse("/library/markdownapp/www")

The app uses the knitr R package and a few lines of javascript to call

Some tips on creating a useful blog for beginners

1) Blog post title should be self explanatory

2) Use categories and tags for better navigation

3) Use a theme which attracts not distracts

4) Simple language in blog writing works best

5) Useful blogs get more traffic than autobiographical blogs. Unless you are a celebrity.

6) People who enjoy writing blogs create better blogs

7) Writing a blog  is like jogging. Do it every day , even when its boring and painful. or Do it as much as your schedule permits.

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How to be a better writer

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Background- I wrote this as an accident while trolling on Quora. I was not confident of what I wrote- in fact I wrote it anonymous except people kept asking me why! It was pure serendipity- I wrote it less than 4 minutes and submitted without thinking. Then edited once based on feedback.

Some one clearly more smarter than me made my tips for writing into a picture http://amandaonwriting.tumblr.com/post/54265230509

and it went popular on Tumblr just like it did on Quora!

Apparently if some guy like Wil Wheaton likes your words, it can go viral!  It has 41799 notes ( reblogs+hearts) on Tumblr as of now.

http://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/54699823961/torteen-great-advice-to-writers

Words . Reposted by a member of STAR TREK:NG. I can now die a happy Geek! The Internet is a funny thing!

Thank you everyone! Now if only Google learnt to include OCR for Images as part of text search!

  1. Write 50 words . That’s  a paragraph.
  2. Write 400 words . That’s a page.
  3. Write 300 pages. That’s a manuscript.
  4. Write everyday. That’s a habit.
  5. Edit and Rewrite. That’s how you get better.
  6. Spread your writing for people to comment. That’s called feedback.
  7. Dont worry about rejection or publication. That’s a writer.
  8. When not writing, read. Read from writers better than you. Read and Perceive.

But overall, just write more to get better.

1887+ votes on Quora!! 🙂 Probably my most viewed content ever- !

61036 people  have viewed this answer!

https://www.quora.com/Writing/How-can-we-improve-our-writing-skill/answers/2048810?__snids__=94784810&__nsrc__=1

Also it got a mention here-

Ajay Ohri: The 8 Rules of Writing

Now I think I should take some of my own advice and get back to writing

Happy July the 4th

To the ideals that established democracy, liberty and freedom- Happy Birthday America

Hope you still find some way to redeem the ideals you were based on this day.

Happy July the 4th, Ed Snowden.

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NSA Interference in Open Source Projects #rstats #python

One key result of NSA’s influence in open source projects is the usage of sneakware in compliant packages, and frequent changes in dependencies (including huge amount of packages )to disrupt non-compliant packages. Basically this is of note to both Python and R communities as there is reason to believe that deprecations in packages due to changes in famous APIs like Twitter and Google are not without undue legalistic influence.

 

Do open source analytical tools represent a threat to the hegemony of Anglo Saxon Governments in text mining? Is there any evidence of anything here or are we just tin hat data scientists blogging to get extra views?

 

If Google can bend over, can Canonical, Microsoft, Red Hat be far behind?