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Sightseeing in Los Angeles
Students create website encouraging the exploration of LA by bus – Oct. 16, 2014 (writeup of http://busla.me/ student created site) Venice Canals: Walk Europe in Southern California – Dec. 19, 2013Please add your personal favorites.
Google Spreadsheet Tricks
Use Google Sheets for Multilingual Chat with Speakers of Different Languages How to Color Alternate Rows in Google Sheets Add miniature charts or Sparklines into individual cells and SPARKLINE function help Scraping and Cleaning Your Data with Google Sheets: ...
DevOps Resources
DevOps (“development” and “operations”) is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and Information Technology (IT) professionals.[ DevOps is a response to the interdependence of softw...
Open Educational Resources
UCLA Library Affordable Course Materials Initiative – ACMI – A total of $10,000 will be offered for the 2013-14 academic year. Growing the Curriculum:Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education OER Commons Diigo collection of OER tagged links Creative C...
Diagramming in Markdown
Markdown is often used for writing documentation, but it doesn’t provide supports for diagrams. Now, something called mermaid does. It can generate diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner to markdown. Mermaid DemoThere is also a project called vi...
urban computing
Urban computing is a process of acquisition, integration, and analysis of big and heterogeneous data generated by a diversity of sources in urban spaces, such as sensors, devices, vehicles, buildings, and human, to tackle the major issues that cities face, e.g...
Organize Photos
The Best Way to Organize a Lifetime of Photos – April 21, 2015 Wall Street Journal
Tech for Social Good
Civic Hall – “is a one-of-a-kind community center for the world’s civic innovators. Located in the heart of New York City, we are a space where social entrepreneurs, change-makers, government employees, hackers, academics, journalists, and artists can share kn...
Ruby one-liner to count logins in Linux last command
count logins in last commandIf you want to take the output of the Linux last command, and get a count of how many times each user connected to your server, this script will do.sample inputtommytrojan sshd abc.def Fri May 15 13:30 - 13:30 (00:00)j...
Using Twitter as a Data Source
Using Twitter as a data source: An overview of current social media research tools – Wasim Ahmed – London School of Economics and Political Science
How to Locate U.S. Congressional Hearings
How to Locate a Published Congressional Hearing: A Beginner’s Guide – August 17, 2015 by Robert Brammer How to Locate an Unpublished Congressional Hearing: A Beginner’s Guide -September 17, 2015 by Robert Brammer
6 Ways to Tell If a Viral Story Is a Hoax
6 Ways to Tell If a Viral Story Is a Hoax – Sep. 21, 2015 – “Easy ways to educate yourself amid ever-growing sea of digital media”
Securing your Facebook account
The 6 Things Everybody Should Do To Secure Their Facebook Account – Forbes – Oct. 19, 2015
Linux performance analysis in 60 seconds
Here’s an intro to understanding what’s going on with a Linux server, quickly.http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analysis-in-60s.htmlIf anyone has others, please post them here.
Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain
Introduction to a spreadsheet for when things aren’t certain Guesstimate Website
Blameless PostMortems
This is a quick introduction to this powerful idea. https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
Help A Blind Person Identify Everyday Things
Help A Blind Person Identify Everyday Things, Via Smartphone App BeMyEyes.org
Regular Expressions
Regular Expressions are how you match text and patterns of text in a programming language, and once you learn it, it’s useful in many languages. Regular Expression Cheat Sheet RegExr is an online tool to learn, build, & test Regular Expressions CROSSWORDS ...