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

Dec 8, 2013 — 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