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I ran out of time a couple of months ago and decided to use the following quick hack to generatea Kiviat plot using ggplot2’s coord_polar function. The result Sample Dataset Used The plot

I had a bunch of makefiles that needed editing–finding and replacing occurrences of strings. It would have taken a long time to manually do it. I used the simple bash scirpt below to recursively barrow into all sub-directories, and subsequently ...

I had a really tough time trying to tether my Android-based LG Optimus L5 mobile device, and additionally use it as a portable hotspot. The basic idea was to make it possible to access it via the Ubuntu 12.04.2 installed ...

I left Cape Town on June 9 2013, after spending a total of 861 days. It feels good to be back home, however, I anticipate the road ahead will be long and hard… re-integration is already proving hard –day 7 ...

I got feedback from my supervisor late last night –he’s clearly a night Owl. I’ve spent the last couple of hours going through his comments and there’re a number of suggested changes to be made in the three draft chapters ...