Il sito di Ivan Piffer - I link del giorno

I link del giorno - 16/04/2010

Scritto da Ivan Piffer

venerdì 16 aprile 2010

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. (grazie a questo post (The Next Big Thing: SAS and SPSS!…wait, what?)

The MODIS Rapid Response System was developed to provide daily satellite images of the Earth's landmasses in near real time. True-color, photo-like imagery and false-color imagery are available within a few hours of being collected, making the system a valuable resource for organizations like the U.S. Forest Service and the international fire monitoring community, who use the images to track fires; the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service, who monitors crops and growing conditions; and the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Air Force Weather Agency, who track dust and ash in the atmosphere. (grazie a Max)

The book is written by Joe Adler, a data analyst and the author of Baseball Hacks. In contrast to the many books that exist today that regard R through the prism of Statistics, Joe takes a much more general approach, treating R primarily as a language. (Disclaimer: I reviewed the book for O'Reilly, and a quote from me appears on the cover. (Qui una bella preview su Google boks)