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Is it so difficult to maintain a free RSS reader? 5 Aug 2013 | 05:04 pm
A few months ago Google decided to retire its Google Reader (it stopped working on July 1st, 2013). As it was simple, effective and good-looking, a lot of people complained about this demise. A few da...
Will we see more babies named George in England and Wales? 2 Aug 2013 | 12:13 am
A few days ago Prince William and Duchess Catherine of Cambridge gave birth to Prince George. Today at the office we were wondering if we will see more babies names George in UK. Very important questi...
How to write data from R to Excel (even if you don’t have Excel) 22 May 2013 | 01:42 am
Following my previous posts on how to read/write Excel files from Matlab here is the way I use to read/write Excel files from R. Again it seems the Apache POI java library made developers’life easy. I...
Any free solution for the demise of Google Reader? 25 Mar 2013 | 02:56 pm
Last week Google announced it will shut down its Reader service. It is a web-based RSS reader. It therefore allows to be kept updated of news from around the net in a central location. I liked the ser...
Map of GAVI eligible countries in R 11 Feb 2013 | 03:48 am
I was trying to reproduce the map of the GAVI Alliance eligible countries (btw I was surprised India is eligible – but that’s the beauty of relying on numbers only and not assumptions) in R. This is t...
Happy New Year 2013! 1 Jan 2013 | 03:18 am
We wish you a very happy new year 2013!
Android is catching up iOS 21 Dec 2012 | 04:08 pm
Well, there is nothing new in this statement. The smartphone OS Android is catching up and even overtaking its rival iOS in many domains: more activated products per day and per year in 2011, more Sam...
How to write data from Matlab to Excel (especially when you don’t have Excel) 11 Dec 2012 | 06:09 pm
If you are using Matlab on a MS-Windows PC with MS-Excel installed, there is no problem reading and writing data to Excel (in case your users/customers only understand this software but you still want...
Android-based smartphones market share in Asia 24 Nov 2012 | 04:01 am
31% Tonight I was wondering what was Android market share in Asia. It is 31% according to a recent study from Ericsson’s ConsumerLab group (reported by TechRepublic). Although dominant through most st...
Today is world diabetes day (Merck ends MK-0431E) 14 Nov 2012 | 02:34 pm
As WHO and other organisations are celebrating World Diabetes Day (WDD) it is always sad to read that a new potential drug is stopped. This time Merck & co. stopped the clinical trial MK-0431E studyin...
