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Tag Archives: LaTeX
Automatically Setup New R and LaTeX Projects
You have a finite amount of keystrokes in your life. Automating repetitive steps is one of the great benefits of knowing a bit about coding, even if the code is just a simple shell script. That’s why I set up … Continue reading
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Tagged automation, how-to, LaTeX, publishing, R, research, technical, technology
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Eliminate File Redundancy with Ruby
Say you have a file with many repeated, unnecessary lines that you want to remove. For safety’s sake, you would rather make an abbreviated copy of the file rather than replace it. Ruby makes this a cinch. You just iterate … Continue reading
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Tagged graphic design, graphics, how-to, LaTeX, plots, programming, R, Ruby, scripts, tikz, time savers, visualization
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Create Your Own Crossword Puzzles
Whether you want to make your own crossword puzzles, or just wonder how they are created, this post is for you. A user over at StackExchange asked how to create a puzzle in . Another user named Thorsten gave a … Continue reading
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Tagged crossword puzzles, fun, games, history, LaTeX, nerd, puzzles, technology
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PyCon 2012 Video Round-Up
The videos from PyCon 2012 are posted. Here are the ones I plan to watch, along with their summaries: Checking Mathematical Proofs Written in TeX ProofCheck is a set of Python scripts which parse and check mathematics written using TeX. Its … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayesian statistics, data, fun, GIS, how-to, LaTeX, mapping, nerd, Python, SQL, statistics, technical, TeX, web scraping
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How to Count Words in LaTex Documents
One thing that can be hard to adjust to for new LaTeX users is not being able to easily get a word count relative to other programs. Now there is a solution, thanks to Matthias Orlowski and Alex Iliopoulos. I share … Continue reading
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Tagged LaTeX, LaTeX word count, Perl, programming, scripts, technology
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