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iPad: Reading for Research

A number of iPad software apps support reading, reviewing, editing, archiving, and sharing documents. The increasing popularity of the device among students and faculty raises questions about the usefulness of those in the context of research: How to manage bibliographies? How to store and share annotations? How to access online academic journals?

Together with my [...]

Follow us on Twitter!

With a recent revamping of our Spatial Interest Group Website we decided to take a look at social networking tools and how we might employ them for a greater visibility for the site and a more dynamic content. It caused me to revisit Twitter, to explore the possibility to set up a group account (for [...]

Easy download of asdar datasets

If you are looking for an easy way to download all the example data used Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, this script was recently posted on the R-sig-Geo Mailing list by one of the book’s authors, Roger Bivand.

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