Archive for May, 2011

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Google Chart Tools, Hmm…

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1 year ago
by Danny Goodall in ,
So my plans for how best to visualise the output of ScrewTinny have been changing recently.

I’ve looked at using Excel to create charts manually. I’ve looked at Python chart libraries. I’ve looked at Google Docs. But now I think I might have found a winner – Google Chart Tools.

I’ve been agonising about how to deliver the results of my NLP text analysis. At the moment I’ve put a bunch of effort into creating charts in .Net so that I can inject them automatically into a PowerPoint using VSTO. It’s working fine but it limits me from being about to use the More >

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Google App Engine and the Arcanicity Index

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2 years ago
by Danny Goodall in , , ,
I’ve decided to investigate Google App Engine (GAE) in my spare time and I need a project to test it with.

So I’m going to try to produce an on-line version of my Arcanicity Index. It will be very simple system, and because I don’t have a fag packet on which to sketch it out, I’ll list the specification below.

The user will be asked to enter some text and then click a button market Process. DeepThought will then sit and ponder for 7 and half million years and respond with “42″. Either that or it will provide the visitor with some text statistics and an More >

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The Un-Mission Statement

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2 years ago
by Danny Goodall in
I’m not a big fan of mission statements…

but I thought I’d better set out a manifesto – a mission statement of sorts for this blog. I wanted to set down in writing the sort of content I’ll be posting in these pages. I already blog on technology marketing and competitive intelligence issues in my blog at Lustratus REPAMA and I tweet on similar issues at @lustratusrepama. So I’ll save comment on those subjects for there.

But I needed a place on the Internet where I could lay my geek hat and call home. I can’t post technical stuff on my Lustratus REPAMA blog More >

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