January 2011
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Fixing SPSS Statistics 18 for Mac
If you’re installing SPSS Statistics 18 on a Mac you may run into a JVM error when attempting to generate graphs or charts. In which case, this article will help fix that!
Jan 26th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Hacking Mendeley Data
Mendeley — a tool designed to help you share, organise and discover research papers — has entered the DataTEL Challenge and released a huge data set of 4.8M records. One of the data files contains the libraries of 50,000 Mendeley users. With this file I split it into 250,000-line chunks using the Mac Terminal command: split -l 250000 libraries I was then able to create a script to process each...
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Managing and Motivating Employees in Their...
A few of these resonate with me… Throw them into the deep end on their first day. Publicly reward junior team members who are doing a great job. Ask frequent questions. Younger employees are often shyer than their older counterparts, so invite interaction not just with yourself, but with others throughout the company. Give them personal attention. Do not make the rookie mistake of...
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 15th
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“Influence. A force that reshapes our path.”
– @markhawker pondering on influence.
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever...”
– Today is the first-year anniversary of giving my life to Christ and becoming a Christian. We made it! A new beginning. (By the way, that’s John 3:16.)
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Eleven Digital Trends To Watch In 2011
Some awesome trends from Steve Rubel: Attentionomics – Marketers begin to realise the value of attention and not just reach in driving conversion. Digital Curation – The plethora of content will give rise to digital curators who can separate art from junk. Developer Engagement – Marketers typically don’t try to court developers, but that’s all about to change. Transmedia...
Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Dive Into HTML5 →
Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine standards.
Jan 5th
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Thirty Expert "Social Media" Predictions
Thirty self-proclaimed “social media” experts have given their predictions for the coming year. I’ve added category headings to house these remarkable insights: There will be more of it. #1: Marketers will have more tools to stimulate conversation. #2: More companies will invest in social media. #3: Social media will become mainstream. #4: Quora will leave beta and become a...
Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd
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