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scatterplot matrix with matplotlib
i couldn’t find a method that draws a scatterplot matrix with matplotlib.pyplot. so i made it. i’m not an expert, so, any advice/criticism is welcome the output of the example looks like the figure below…
On Starting Up Business
If you are interested in starting your own company, the following essay written by Robert Green is definitely worth reading: Six Lessons I’ve Learned Since I Started Working for Myself: http://lifehacker.com/5663011/six-lessons-ive-learned-since-i-started-working-for-myself
The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011
Today, the World Economic Forum updated the Global Competitiveness Report. Japan has received better assessment of the 6th best competitive economy; the previous report gave the country the 8th rank. The figures in the report indicate that the state of the Japanese business and innovation is brilliant but the economic sophistication is overshadowed by the [...]
Supernetworking Meeting Held on September 6th
On 6th of September, Johogaku.net held a medium-sized conference in collaboration with IPA (Information technology Promotion Agency). IT engineers and their potential competitors gathered in Kyoto and frankly discussed the future of the IT industry and what the role of the government should be. It was an exciting event as a whole. We’ll upload some [...]
Dropbox up to 8GB
This is a quite old story. Sorry for this untimely information. I missed the important news that Dropbox started to offer 8GB disk space for free! I was sooo stupid… If you have no idea what Dropbox is, please just google it. You can find a lot of information on it. Roughly speaking, it’s real [...]
The new WordPress has come
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/06/18/wordpress-3-0-arrives-with-multi-blog-support-and-new-default-t/ The new version, 3.0, of WordPress, on which this website is running, has arrived lately. It has quite nice features. Among them, I’m pleased because you are finally able to manage multiple blogs on a single WordPress program. You know, my website has two identical WordPress core programs to manage Japanese and English versions. [...]
Google Chrome + quix
Soon after reading this article, quix became one of my favorite scripts. This tool amazingly improves our searching experience. And you can enjoy it even more with Google Chrome. Although it’s basically created as a bookmarklet, it’s possible to integrate the powerful search tool with Chrome’s address bar. Slight Modification of the Built-in Commands To [...]
Inside Pixar’s Leadership
http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/inside-pixars-leadership/ Some transcription from the interview with Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar, held by The Economist. The notion that you’re trying to control the process and prevent error screws things up. We all know the saying it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. And everyone knows that, but I Think there is a [...]
how to take advantage of the incognito mode
Use Incognito Mode to Keep Friends Logged in While Mooching Computer Time This is a quite simple and great idea.
Attaching files by Drag’n'Drop
Drag and Drop Gmail Attachments Recently added feature of Gmail provides us a really comfortable experiences in email composition. In the conventional web-based email services we couldn’t drag and drop attachments unlike off-line application of a lot more flexibility. Now, Gmail employs a new technique provided by HTML5 to overcome the cumbersome behavior of webmail. [...]