I've recently been experimenting with Data Visualisation in R. As part of that I've put together a little bit of (probably error ridden and redundant) code to help…
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[Apple](http://www.apple.com) announced some shiny new things today. Given that the Australian dollar is around 92 cents, we'd hope for a good exchange rate. What has Apple actually done?…
[Net Neutrality](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality) is one of the biggest hot button issues among the nerd illuminati of the Internet right now. The simple question is whether all internet bits are…
Just last week [Electronic Arts offered $US 2 billion to purchase another publisher, Take-Two](http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/news/131375.20080225.EA-offers-2-Billion-to-buy-Take-Two/). This is part of a continuing trend in the computer video game business, with…
[Valleywag](http://valleywag.com/), [before per-view incentives were provided to staff](http://valleywag.com/339271/denton-to-pay-bloggers-based-on-traffic): * [24-Hour Diners of San Francisco](http://gridskipper.com/travel/san-francisco/24+hour-diners-of-san-francisco-299751.php). * [Wozniak donates car to charity](http://valleywag.com/tech/clips/wozniak-donates-car-to-charity-laughter-to-us-299764.php). * [Your online friends aren't real](http://valleywag.com/tech/social-networks/your-online-friends-arent-real-299646.php). [Valleywag], after…
I was listening this morning to a [recent episode](http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticality/069_skepticality.mp3) of the great podcast [Skepticality](http://www.skepticality.com/index.php), and I was very struck by a question host Swoopy asked of interview-ee Michael…
A particularly annoying species of headline writer has been out and about lately. That's the one who likes to write headlines like: > Stock market loses $10 billion.…
In case you hadn't noticed, the TV and film writers in the US are [on strike](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–08_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike). It's been about 9 weeks now since they went on strike in…
You know what phrase is most likely to scare an economist? "I'm an engineer, and have some thoughts about economics". Something in the training of engineers seems to…
As the new financial year rolls around, I'm giving some thought as to how invest my money. I've got a mortgage, which means that my investment portfolio (such…