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Yahoo Pipes Mash-Ups and Future Projects
I have been experimenting with mash-ups, with the ultimate plan to incorporate them into mobile applications and websites. Yahoo Pipes offers an easy way to create mash-up systems. Pipes is primarily focused around RSS, JSON, XML, Flickr, and geocoded data … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Media Sharing, Resource-a-rama, The Cloud
Tagged Flickr, Pipes, RapidMiner, RSS, XML, Yahoo Maps
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Sample Code for Oracle 10g: DECODE, applied
I was having fun with the DECODE command while playing around with Oracle 10g. For the note, the description of DECODE on Oracle’s website is more than a little bit like mud. I guess there is no easy way to … Continue reading
Perspectives on Oracle 10g Express
I have been working with Oracle 10g (and mySQL 5.1/5.5), and have come to some interesting conclusions regarding the Oracle SQL, as well as PHP. Oracle’s SQL language has its own variant – SQL*Plus. While I won’t get into the … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Resource-a-rama
Tagged Cognos, Database, Graphical user interface, Joomla, mySQL Workbench, Oracle, Oracle Database, PHP, SQL
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Antipsychotic Costs, public buying power comparison, May 2010
This is an image of a visualization comparing costs of prescriptions (public buying power vs. private payer). It highlights the difference of having a mass purchasing program. For example, some of the medications are so cheap that they barely appear … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Resource-a-rama
Tagged Health, Pharmacy, Prescription drug, Risperdal, Risperidone
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Creativity and Information Technology
I have two questions regarding computers, business, and creativity: 1) Can you learn to be creative? 2) Why is technology the fore-front of creative business? Before I start, I should preface this with the caveat that I like to create beautiful things, but … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Resource-a-rama
Tagged Apple, Charles Babbage, Difference Engine, Joomla, Open source, RapidMiner, Steve Jobs, technology
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Adobe Acrobat and Medical Record Archiving
As part of my daily work routine, I archive medical records. This process involves various bits and pieces – scanning the file, ensuring data integrity, loading to the medical record server, etc. The tool that I use is Adobe Acrobat. … Continue reading
Global Lifespan by Nation and Quality of Life
There is an assumption that we in the U.S. will have longer life spans due to our economic strength. Tied to this is the opposing thought – that our health will suffer if we spend less or grow weaker in … Continue reading
Posted in Resource-a-rama, Wordplay and Commentary
Tagged Aging, Health, Life expectancy, Old age, Quality of life, Russia, Supreme Court, United States
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Health Information Technology and IT Security
Attached is a presentation I created for one of my graduate-level networking classes. The content of the Powerpoint is more the focus of this post than the commentary. It should be obvious that Internet security is the hot topic of … Continue reading
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Data Mining with RapidMiner 5.1, GATE, and Weka 3.6.4
Over the last 6 months, I have been working intensely with a host of data mining software. Some of it was good, some of it was lousy, and some of it I can only rate as excellent. You will need … Continue reading →