— 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
Hi, I'm VanessaSaurus, a Software Engineer.
Building tools, containers, and cloudy things, with a penchant for Python and parsnips. -- about me
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— 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
— 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
— Plot.ly, for instant sharing of graphs from R, Python, Matlab... — I have been unbelievably excited to test out plot.ly, specifically the API that is available for R, Python, Matlab, Julia, Arduino, Perl, and even REST. As a graduate student that makes many plots, and then saves them as image files for... Read more