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Dive into the RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for using and programming R, the popular open source software for statistical computing and graphics. This concise book provides new and experienced users with an overview of RStudio, as well as hands-on instructions for analyzing data, generating reports, and developing R software packages. The open source RStudio IDE brings many powerful coding tools together into an intuitive, easy-to-learn interface. With this guide, you’ll learn how to use its main components—including the console, source code editor, and data viewer—through descriptions and case studies. Getting Started with RStudio serves as both a reference and introduction to this unique IDE. Use RStudio to provide enhanced support for interactive R sessions Clean and format raw data quickly with several RStudio components Edit R commands with RStudio’s code editor, and combine them into functions Easily locate and use more than 3,000 add-on packages in R’s CRAN service Develop and document your own R packages with the code editor and related components Create one-click PDF reports in RStudio with a mix of text and R output Download ebook: Getting Started with RStudio If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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What will we leave behind in this new digital age? As digital technology takes an ever-increasing role in our lives, one question is how we’ll manage our collections after we’re gone. What takes the place of shoeboxes full of pictures and dog-eared record albums? Get an inside look at Microsoft researcher Richard Banks’s thinking about how we might manage the digital artifacts and content we’re creating now—and how we might pass on or inherit these kinds of items in the future. Download ebook: The Future of Looking Back If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Although psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism derive from theoretical and philosophical assumptions worlds apart, both experientially-based traditions share at their heart a desire for the understanding, development, and growth of the human experience. Paul Cooper utilizes detailed clinical vignettes to contextualize the implications of Zen Buddhism in the therapeutic setting to demonstrate how its practices and beliefs inform, relate to, and enhance transformative psychoanalytic practice. The basic concepts of Zen, such as the identity of the relative and the absolute and the foundational principles of emptiness and dependent-arising, are given special attention as they relate to the psychoanalytic concepts of the unconscious and its processes, transference and countertransference, formulations of self, and more. In addition, through an analysis of apophasis, a unique style of discourse that serves as a basic structure for mystical languages, he provides insight into the structure of the seemingly irrational Zen koan in order to demonstrate its function as a pedagogical and psychological tool. Though mindful of their differences, Cooper’s intent throughout is to illustrate how the practices of both Zen and psychoanalysis become internalized by the individual who engages in them and can, in turn, inform one another in mutually beneficial ways in an effort to comprehend the ramifications of an individual or collective expanding vision. Download ebook: The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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This history of the development of the airplane by Spenser, a former curator of the National Air and Space Museum and author of 747 , recasts the Wright brothers’ contribution as he widens the scope to aviation history in France, Germany and beyond. Spenser starts with the pioneering work of Yorkshire gentleman Sir George Cayley in the late 18th century, delineates the competitive race between inventors in the early 1900s and culminates (somewhat abruptly) in the world of modern jet airliner travel. Spenser’s history reads like a textbook for young, aspiring engineers. Instead of a general chronological approach, Spenser divides the book into sections that each track the development of a different part of the airplane, from the fuselage to landing gear. While this allows him to show how the modern airplane is not a singular invention but rather the cumulative result of thousands of different inventors, trials and errors, it does diffuse the narrative. Still, Spenser’s book stands as a smart, and occasionally wonkish, history of a thrilling machine all too often taken for granted. Download ebook: The Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Move beyond simple site creation and build web applications with HTML5 that can compete with desktop apps and run on mobile devices. This practical guide shows you how HTML5’s JavaScript APIs give you the power to take web development into many fields that used to require platform-specific development—particularly mobile deployment. You’ll not only discover how to take advantage of local storage, geolocation, multithreaded processing, and flexible network connectivity with HTML5, you’ll also learn many ways to make application development with JavaScript more powerful. Learn how HTML5 will bring about a radical change in web browser applications Get details about powerful toolkits that will help you program in JavaScript more efficiently Discover powerful aspects of JavaScript that you may not be aware of, such as closures, lambda, and functional programming Learn how HTML5 lets your applications store data in the browser so that you’re not bound to the server Take your app offline, and explore how an offline application cache can speed up page loading when the app is online Use HTML5 Web Workers to create multithreaded applications with JavaScript Make your application mobile through geolocation and other HTML5 elements Learn a new way to communicate between the browser and a server with web sockets Download ebook: Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in Javascript If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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“This imaginative and innovative book should appeal not only to those with an interest in the individual cases, stories, and plays, but also to philosophers, historians, theologians, literary critics, and some specialists in international politics whose concerns are broader.” Frank C. Zagare , UB Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University at Buffalo, and author of The Games of July: Explaining the Great War Download ebook: Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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