New Tablet: Samsung SM T800

Can you control your phone and laptop from an android tablet? With the Samsung SM T800  you can. Just bought one with a keyboard cover. It is fast, nice screen, multi tasking and tons of apps. With Hancom Office you can use Powerpoint, Excel or Word. When all your documents are in the cloud, you only have to take this tablet to be in business everywhere.

Google Analytics in R

Playing around with R using data van Google Analytics, using the following recipes:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2486018/business-intelligence-how-to-extract-custom-data-from-the-google-analytics-api.html

Here are some graphs:

Daily visits for 2014

ggplot(myresults, aes(x=date, y=visits))+ geom_point() +

+    stat_smooth()

 

 

Social Networks with Facebook and LinkedIN

NodeXL, an add on to Excel,is a very nice tool to analyze social networks. It has a standard import utility for Twitter, Flickr and YouTube data. What to do with Facebook and LinkedIN networks? Facebook is easy: just download the social network importer and you have under import tab in NodeXL an option for dowloading Facebook data. Here is the install.

10 LESSONS FROM DATA JOURNALISM TRAINING

In the nineties of the past century it was called Computer Assisted Research and Reporting; now it is called Data Journalism. Since I early retired from the School of Journalism about three years ago, I decided to focus on training working journalists in data journalism. The Netherlands is a bit small for these activities and most of my work is in Europe, the borders of Europe and Sub-Sahara Africa. Training takes a couple of days from a 3 days minimum to 5 days maximum. Looking back over the past year I come to the following conclusions. Published at Paul Bradshaw Online Journalism Blog

10 LESSEN VAN DE TRAINING DATAJOURNALISTIEK

Toen ik begon heette het nog Computer Assisted Research and Reporting (CARR), dat was in de jaren negentig van de vorige eeuw. Nu heet het datajournalistiek. Sinds ik gestopt ben met lesgeven op de School voor Journalistiek, zo'n drie jaar geleden, richt ik mij full time op het trainen van journalisten in datajournalistiek. Nederland is wat klein en veel van mijn aktiviteiten vinden plaats in Europa( de Persgroep, De Telegraaf en Wegener), de randen van Europa(Georgië, Bosnië en Herzegowina) of zuidelijk en oost Afrika. Trainingen duren over het algemeen enkele dagen, minimaal 3 en maximaal 5. Als ik terugkijk op het afgelopen jaar kan ik de volgende conclusies trekken. 
Ook op De Nieuwe Reporter

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SAMSUNG GEAR FIT IN TRAINING

I bought myself a new gadget, the Samsung Gear Fit. I still had an analogue watch and was looking for something new. There are lot of wrist computer for sales. While browsing I fell in love with the Samsung Gear. Slick design with a curved display.

It not only a watch, but with a Bluetooth connection with my Samsung Galaxy S5 it also notifies me, when selected, of incoming mail, appointments, SMS, tweets or Facebook updates. On top of this the device gathers data of my physical activities, such as running, biking and the heartbeat of course. Nice gadget for 150€.  Published on Memeburn