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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
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
Computer Science vs. Information Studies vs. Information Systems (With a Little Informatics)
Article first published as Computer Science vs. Information Studies vs. Information Systems (with a Little Informatics) on Technorati. There are possibly a half-dozen major, intertwining domains in the IT field, and sometimes a little deciphering is necessary when assessing the … 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 →