Tag Archives: OpenSource

R at Google

“…One interesting application is the Google Flu Trends project, which uses R to estimate current flu activity based on Google search results. Google Trends aggregates user search queries showing how often a particular word or phrase has been searched. Correlation … Continue reading

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Rante, il sito degli utenti R in Italia

“Rante è una comunità di utenti appassionati di R, un ambiente di programmazione open source ideato principalmente per l’analisi statistica dei dati. Si fonda nella condivisione della filosofia del software libero e nella convinzione che avere un punto di ritrovo e … Continue reading

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Geographic maps in R: Italy

As suggested by this post, I created an Italian map with the following R code using the sp package and the GADM maps

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Debian celebrates its 17th birthday

Debian celebrates its 17th birthay! Read the official news..

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Calling soap web services with curl from a unix shell

How to call soap web services from a unix shell? it is easy with curl and, optionally, xsltproc ! Read the tutorial soap requests with curl !

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Ebot: an erlang web crawler

Ebot is a opensource and scalable web crawler written on top of Erlang, a NOSQL database (Apache CouchDB or Riak), RabbitMQ, Mochiweb, Webmachine, .. See my Erlang info page for more details.

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RabbitMQ acquired by SpringSource/VMWare

“Erlang-based RabbitMQ was acquired today by SpringSource, which is owned by VMWare” “RabbitMQ is a complete and highly reliable enterprise messaging system based on the emerging AMQP standard. It is licensed under the open source Mozilla Public License and has … Continue reading

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The Interactive Internet is quite near… the new facebook chat with XMPP…

After Google with GTalk (~ 180 million users) , now also Facebook (> 400 million users ) has switched its chat protocol to Jabber/XMPP ( pdf introduction). Now you need simply a generic xmpp client (like Adium, iChat, Miranda, Pidgin) … Continue reading

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Do NOT BUY any DVB USB devices with TRIDENT chipsets

Please do NOT buy any DVB USB devices with TRIDENT chipsets like Freecom DVB-T & Analog TV USB STICK (USB Id 14aa:0620), Moka Hybrid TV receiver MK-DVBT-DUAL (USB Id 14aa:0620), LifeView LR535 … a PCIe Mini Card (USB Id 10fd:0535), … Continue reading

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Learning Erlang

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