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Freigeist: Berichte vom Jakobsweg
Freigeist: Berichte vom Jakobsweg
Das Blog enthält Reiseberichte unter anderem über die Wanderung auf dem Jakobsweg von Ulm aus mit dem Ziel Santiago de Compostella, welches früh oder später erreicht werden soll. Jahr für Jahr begeht der Autor dafür ein Stück des Weges. [...]
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Downloading All Your Pictures From iPad or
geschrieben am 29.10.11 - 14:45 UhrI really disklike iTunes, it is the worst piece of software I have ever come accross. I would say that Windows has been getting better and better. I had the following problem: I uploaded quite a few pictures via iTunes onto my iPad, just because its nice to look at pictures on [...]
Internet Connection Sharing via Ad-Hoc
geschrieben am 19.10.11 - 07:59 UhrAs I have to be in hospital for a few days in Germany, I bought myself a SIM card and a month mobile internet flatrate. I have a netbook, a EEPC 1000go with an integrated mobile broadband card. However, in hospital I rather wanted to use my iPad and my iPhone to read papers and [...]
Microfinance Map of India – another go…
geschrieben am 30.09.11 - 14:33 UhrI gave it another go, trying to get a map that looks a bit nicer. This time, I tried to compute something like a density or intensity in a certain area. On the previous map, this was not visible very well. I used ggplot2 and a bit of R code, together with RGoogleMaps to produce [...]
Microfinance in India: Getting a sense of
geschrieben am 03.09.11 - 20:14 UhrI am working on a review paper on microfinance in India and use data from the MIX market. Today, I was amazed by how quick I conjured a map of India with the headquarters of the microfinance institutions that report data to the MIX market depicted on that map. Ideally, I would [...]
Animation from Kiva data
geschrieben am 03.09.11 - 12:50 UhrI just came accross this amazing animation, which depicts lending flows from Kiva lenders to Kiva borrowers in the field. I have been working on a few pieces of research with my colleague Jon de Quidt using Kiva data. However, that work has stalled a bit as prioritization moved [...]
How co-workers see each other…
geschrieben am 01.09.11 - 12:02 UhrI thought this was a bit provoking and quite funny…where would you place yourself on that? As seen on http://i.imgur.com/vRTRP.jpg
R Function Binding Vectors and Matrices of
geschrieben am 19.08.11 - 09:04 UhrNow this is something very geeky, but useful. I had to bind two matrices or vectors together to become a bigger matrix. However, they need not have the same number of rows or even the same row names. The standard cbind() functions require the vectors or matrices to be [...]
London Riots : Catch the Looters!
geschrieben am 09.08.11 - 18:23 UhrToday we were told to leave office early: Hi All Due to anticipated rioting in the Tottenham Court Road area this evening, businesses in the area are being advised to close at 5pm. So I would recommend that we go along with this as well and try to finish up as close to 5pm as [...]
Back in London – really!
geschrieben am 05.07.11 - 23:57 UhrI just returned to London after 3 1/2 weeks in London. And what a return it was. I finally passed all the exams needed and I can now focus fully on my Phd. That was about the good news! Of course, London greeted me with a Sunny morning but it would end up hitting me [...]
Impressions from Colombia
geschrieben am 03.07.11 - 19:19 UhrThis summer, right after the examination period I travelled to Colombia. Flying to Bogota and then onwards to Cali, where my girlfriends mother lives, I got to know a remarkable country that was ridden by violence and conflict for a long time. I was amazed to see how the private [...]
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