Microsoft Office Compatible Productivity Tools on Your Mobile Phone or Tablet
Jan 23,
2019
Use Polaris Office to access Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint files on your mobile phone just like you do at your office! Let’s face it a majority of businesses use Microsoft Office productivity tools every day. But one day you find yourself on the road traveling on business without your laptop and you need to access […]
Using .RProfile to Customize your R Environment
Jan 22,
2019
When R starts up, it looks for several files to initialize its configuration. R has its own configuration file called Rprofile.site located in the /etc folder. It is probably wise not to mess with this file unless you are very confident in your understanding. Most R users are aware that during startup, R reads an […]
Medical Devices Still Aren’t Secure
Jan 17,
2019
Four years ago I wrote about the need to secure medical devices from potential attackers. The problem is still there and the potential for harm is just as great or greater. In October of this year (2018) the US Food And Drug Administration(FDA)’s Office of the Inspector General delivered a report entitled, THE FOOD AND […]
Preparing SQL Data for R Visualizations Using Power Query Pivot
Jan 11,
2019
The Data Frame The fundamental data structure used by the majority of R functions and packages is the data frame. In a data frame, sets of related values constitute rows, while an individual column vector in a data frame contains comparable measures that can be summed, averaged, or subjected to any number of numerical manipulations. […]
Beware of Online Extortion
Jan 9,
2019
“We’ve been watching your browsing and…” begins yet another ransomware email. The ones I receive allege that they have my password from a porn site (I’ve never visited one), they’ve compromised my router and seen the porn I watch (again, I don’t), and that they know the password for my email server (I’ve never used […]