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The guys from Juice Analytics have put together an interesting series on in cell graphing (parts 1, 2, & 3). This is a feature that is due in the upcoming version of Excel 2007, however the technique the Juice guys use works across all versions of Excel and is quite visually appealing too. Added bonus, [...]

The Data Mining Cup (DMC2006), has launched for 2006. This year the competition focuses on eBay auctions. The target is to predict for each new auction whether the actual sales revenue is higher than the average sales revenue of the product category.

Now you can design presentation templates in Inkscape and use them as a LaTeX style. From the LaTeX Presentation Designer website: The package contains a documentclass called “presentation” which takes as an argument a slide style. The package also provides a simple python program that can interpret SVG files generated by Inkscape and build a [...]

You may have listened to Internet radio before, but Pandora is a station of a different kind – totally personalised. Its a Flash based player (sorry Andy!) that sits inside your browser, so no problems with firewalls. But the real innovation is that when you start it up, you tell it the artists you like, [...]

I previously blogged about advertisers going troppo for The Million Dollar Homepage. Well, online advertising is hot all over the net and is gaining on all traditional mediums fast. Australian Internet advert spending was AUD$620 Million last year, and will be AUD$1 Billion by the end of the year. Interestingly Internet advertising only accounts for [...]

Andy acquired a new toy at work: a Segway HT! It was only fitting that I visit and give it a spin! Let me just say, the Segway is one impressive ride — I want one! Weee!: Me riding the Segway HT. Cruising: Video of Andy riding the Segway (DivX, 6.6MB) The Segway website also [...]

Google Maps now covers the entire world! Some interesting sites include the Pyramids and the Arc de Triomphe. An interesting comparison can be had between The White House, which has blanked out roof tops, and Parliament House… who is alert and who is alarmed?! It seems only about half of Melbourne is covered in high [...]