Dec 22, 2013 — 3D Web Models with Three.js and Blender — An important part of being a researcher is visualization.  It’s hard to present meaningful work if you don’t have good methods to display your data, and although most of us are pretty decent with plotting in Matlab and R, I... Read more

Dec 21, 2013 — Happy Holidays from Goggles Optional! — From our podcast family to yours, wishing you a merry holiday season, 2013! A Nature Christmas from Goggles Optional on Vimeo. Read more

Dec 17, 2013 — Connecting to MySQL Databases in R 3.0.1 using RODBC — I want to connect to MySQL databases from R.  It’s easy to do in Python, but nothing is more painful than trying to get RMySQL working in R for Windows.  This is possibly punishment from some higher god for having... Read more

Dec 15, 2013 — NDAR on the Cloud — The National Database for Autism Research (NDAR) is moving toward a cloud-based data service (the standard now is to log in and download data with a java applet).  What does this mean?  It means that you can either get data... Read more