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Data_Mining: The New York Knicks Described In Programming Jargon

Do not take this the wrong way, I love the Knicks and I am a life long fan. I recently was fooling around with RapidMiner, a wonderful open source data mining tool. It allows you to string together built in functions and then perform experiments on data. You could for example run a supervised learner on data to create a model for forecasting revenue or doing classification. It also features some plotting views to see results. So I decided to collect some data on my favorite basketball team and run a RuleLearner on the data. My results are below, keep in mind that this dataset is just for this season and does not consider scoring (which obviously affects the outcome). So if you where going to write a program to perform like the New York Knicks this season what would it look like? Below is the conditional statement core to the main loop that runs this team:

 

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JavaScript: JavaScript bracket notation allows you to use strange variable names

And you wonder why you would want to do that? Well, at times using invalid characters in variables names maybe unavoidable. Take the example below:

 

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Web-Performance: How to speed up the rendering of your website

So you have invested in an awesome website design complete with flash animation and fancy AJAX effects. You have increased your level of hosting service to maybe even a dedicated server or cluster of servers. But you still notice a slight delay? It may look like a blank screen with the status bar showing tons of CSS and Javascript files loading then the content renders. Or it maybe where the page loads and it hangs for a while and then goes and finishes loading. Whatever it looks like, you maybe suffering from rendering speed due to the design of your site. In this article we will go over what this is and some things you can do to increase the speed of rendering on your website.

 

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JavaScript: How to detect if your in a frame via JavaScript

At times you may need the ability to detect if your javascript code is in an html frame. I will cover a simple way to do this.

 

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Software-Graphics: Hugin: How to photo stitch digitally?

Have you have ever seen those awesome panorama pictures and wondered how you could do with out spending tons of money on photography hardware? Well, In this article I am going to cover using the photo stitcher program called Hugin, which can stitch multiple images together seamlessly into a continuous panorama picture. You will need just a standard digital camera and a computer running Windows, Mac, or Linux.