If I was to write a travel book in the style of Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux, I would probably call it “Travels of Z” and write about all […]

The Visualization Studio at the University of Calgary has a VisWall with 34.5 million pixels for a resolution of 9600×3600.  It is 16 feet by 6 feet. The following are […]

The story of Epi Comics starts while talking to some classmates about whether they were going to be going to the comic book convention.  They said they weren’t sure, so […]

Looking back at the 1990s and seeing how computers were established in the clinical environment is an interesting story of the adoption of technology. IBM 7690 (1991)The IBM 7690 is […]

Shiny is a web front-end application for R that is part of RStudio.  Shiny is licensed at $9,999/year through RStudio. http://rstudio.github.io/shiny/tutorial/#welcome I’ve been playing with it the last few days […]

Having conducted several surveys I’ve really thought about what kind of system I would like to have.   We use RedCap for all of our survey data collection and then […]

Before VMWare, VirtualBox and other virtualization/emulator environments, hardware emulators were required if you wanted to run other computing environments on a different piece of hardware. Hardware EmulatorsAtari hardware running Macintosh […]

One of the interesting things is looking at the evolution of mobile computing in terms of hand-held units. Pocket Computers (TRS80, Sharp, Panasonic) PalmTops (Atari Portfolio, HP200X) Personal Digital Assistants […]

Forest Ranger (2014) – ForestRanger is an application for visualizing large amount of Forest Plots generated from cross sectional surveys (i.e. Canadian Community Health Survey – CCHS).  The Forest Plot(s) report […]