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Take Control of Your Online Privacy

Take Control of Your Online Privacy

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On Jun 16, 2014 Jose San Pedro wrote:
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Tabletop Photography

Tabletop Photography

Using Compact Flashes and Low-Cost Tricks to Create Professional-Looking Studio Shots

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On Sep 22, 2013 Jose San Pedro wrote: Easily create your own studio for tabletop photography
Tabletop photography, by Cyrill Harnischmacher, gives the reader a clear introduction on how to take product shots in a studio environment. But above this, the book provides extensive details to help readers create their own tabletop photography studio without spending much in gear and materials. Full Review >

Code Simplicity

Code Simplicity

The Fundamentals of Software

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On Jul 15, 2012 Jose San Pedro wrote:
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21 Recipes for Mining Twitter

21 Recipes for Mining Twitter

Distilling Rich Information from Messy Data

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On Mar 7, 2011 Jose San Pedro wrote: Book Review: 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter by Matthew A. Russell
This book provides readers with a quite comprehensive introduction to extracting and analyzing information from Twitter. While it is expected that the reader is somewhat familiar with the different Twitter APIs, the author does a fantastic job at presenting strategies for crawling and mining data using python and some additional… Full Review >

25 Recipes for Getting Started with R

25 Recipes for Getting Started with R

Excerpts from the R Cookbook

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On Feb 14, 2011 Jose San Pedro wrote: Review : 25 Recipes for Getting Started with R by Paul Teetor
This book contains a fantastic first glance at the R language and its possibilities for statistical data analysis. The book is targeted to the new R programmer, and assumes from the reader basic knowledge of statistics. Easy to read, it provides users with the basics to start making use of… Full Review >

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