Review
I was intrigued by an offhand reference to a ‘neat new service’ and consequently poked into infostripe. It’s a consolidated touchpoint for sharing your social media participation and identities in a compact and dynamic manner. Similar to some extent to…
From Joe: The verdict:The first 50 pages of Nudge were very good but they didn’t need to write the rest. For Laurence, who only read the first 50 pages, that’s great foresight. We have acknowledged that a book club is…
Capture by Rand, Broughton and Quintenz-Fiedler is an opulent manual that plumbs the depths of photographic theory, presenting it with clarity and extends the traditional analogue into the digital discussing the aspects that make working digital unique. This is a…
The R Cookbook by Paul Teetor is a solid addition to the well-respected series. Teetor provides a rich collection of useful examples written in the proven method and covering everything from installing, configuring and running R to carrying out sophisticated…
Sure enough, O’Reilly have introduced a new version of their iPad: The Missing Manual series, aptly named iPad2: The Missing Manual. Like all Missing Manual series, content is at the overview level attempting to cover the complete range of questions…
In Mining the Social Web Matthew A Russell offers to instruct in identifying social connections, trends in discussion and locations by tapping into social media data. He succeeds in spades. This fast-paced and rich handbook jumps right into the fray…
Excel 2010 Data Analysis and Business Modeling Third Edition by Wayne L Winston offers an impressive amount of real applied knowledge within a handy volume. Winston delivers an authoritative and exhaustive tome that functions as a superb reference source –…
Great R: Level 1 by Michael Milton is a 2 hr video course which leads you from the basics of installing the R environment on your system to conducting basic analysis and presentation of your data. The course itself is…
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Data visualisation has become very vogue in the digital humanities community. Although there have been a scattering of brave practitioners over the past few years, only very recently has this interdisciplinary area started to feature prominently at DH conferences as…