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Has anyone tried https://www.statwing.com/ It is free for datasets under 1MB and held for less than 24 hours. It claims to make data analysis very simple to do.Discovered via Internet Scout ReportPlease add your experiences or comments or alternatives here. T...

Has anyone tried SQLShare? http://escience.washington.edu/sqlshareBased out of U. Washington, which is where I heard of it, “SQLShare is a database service aimed at removing the obstacles to using relational databases: installation, configuration, schema desig...

The Price is Right: 11 Excellent Sites for Free Digital Textbooks – Campus Technology 8/14/13Please add other sources, or related initiatives, as you discover them. Thanks

For those who have to deal with cvs data files, here is a tool to do de-duplication http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-cvsdedupe/ https://github.com/datamade/csvdedupeHere are tools for working with cvs files.http://csvkit.readthedocs...

Hacking the Graph for Better Sourcing and Recruiting on FacebookPlease add other techniques for using Facebook data.

Has anyone tried “Xerte Online Toolkit?”http://www.xerte.org.uk/ It’s a tool for making it easy to create learning objects in either Flash or HTML. “Xerte allows authors with no programming skills to build elearning activities through a simple browser interfa...

Described as a cross between Pinterest and Yahoo Pipes, TaDaweb “lets non-technical business personnel target public data feeds from which they want to extract very specific, but constantly changing data.” TaDaweb Lets You Create ‘Small Data’ Mashups Without W...

One of the keys of a “flipped class” is to have the lectures online. 6 YouTube lessons for building better instructional videosLynda.com has an expanding body of modules for flipped class environments— Flipping the Classroom, http://www.lynda.com/Business-tuto...

“Acclaimed cloud-based document management platform now available free to individual researchers” ProQuest Launches Free Version of Flow Homepage— http://flow.proquest.com/ YouTube Channel — http://www.youtube.com/user/ProQuestRefWorksIf anyone has any exper...

While you may or may not like or trust Wikipedia, this page is intended for interesting articles about it: Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond – a free six week course from the School of Open The value of looking up stuff in other languages in Wi...

I’ve used scp for years, but didn’t know many of these options. The compress-before-transferring and recursively copying a subdirectory structure, look particularly useful. 12 scp command examples to transfer files on Linux

Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions – June 12, 2014

The Linux “tee” command is extremely useful in the right situation. This article gives some good examples: http://linuxaria.com/pills/linux-terminal-the-tee-command

Sometimes you have sections of your website that you don’t want search engines to index. That’s what robots.txt, AKA the “Standard for Robot Exclusion” was invented for. Now, 20 years later, there’s an article about common mistakes in using it. http://www.robo...

Has anyone tried the Wolfram Programming Cloud? It “is an application of the Wolfram Language—specifically for programming, and for creating and deploying cloud-based programs.How does it work? Well, you should try it out! It’s incredibly simple to get started...

5 ways journalists can use Nuzzel with Twitter lists – " Andy Brightwell shows how you can use Nuzzel to burst your filter bubble, follow people in a particular location or industry, see the world from someone’s perspective, or create a niche newsletter. – Ap...

Fascinating article. Please add more on this if you find any. No silver bullet: De-identification still doesn’t work – July 9, 2014

This is a very useful explanation of RGB (Red, Green, Blue) codes that are used all over the Internet, and elsewhere.How to Easily Recognize Web Colors from RGB Codes – Aug. 19, 2014