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Creating infographics. Intranet Benchmarking Forum. Search Indexer Consumes 15-20% CPU After Indexing Complete. The following article will help you solve the problem when the Search Indexer In your windows build machine consumes more System memory than normal. In some abnormal situation, searchindexer.exe can also run at 50% CPU usage even when you are not using the machine and around 15% when you are using your Windows. This could be a big problem when you are having more files in your system that the searchindexer.exe will take more and more of your CPU resources just to find and index all those files and your outlook mails. Rebuilding the Search Index wont fix this issue as there is nothing to do with the indexing itself. Scotland's Population Distribution. Interact with this viz of Scotland's censuses since 1911.

Scotland's Population Distribution

Use the slider to select a year and see the distribution of population by age and gender. Is a table a valid way to visualise data? There is a great thread on our community right now.

Is a table a valid way to visualise data?

It started off with an innocent question about sub-totals. Once our Tableau Zen Masters got involved, it morphed into a great debate: are tables useful in data visualisation? This is a really important question, and one we cover in our Visual Analytics course. Getting a Bing Maps Key. To use the Bing Maps APIs, you must have a Bing Maps Key.

Getting a Bing Maps Key

Creating a Bing Maps Key You can create two Bing Maps Keys. If you require additional keys, contact Bing Maps for Enterprise to become an enterprise customer. Note: The Bing Maps Key system was updated in July, 2012. If you created a key in the previous system, it was automatically migrated. Stuck? United Nations Initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management. Batch Geonews: 2012 London Olympics Maps and more, Project Geo, MapPoint 2013, Global Arms Trade, and much more. R and the web (for beginners), Part III: Scraping MPs’ expenses in detail from the web. In this last post of my little series (see my latest post) on R and the web I explain how to extract data of a website (web scraping/screen scraping) with R.

R and the web (for beginners), Part III: Scraping MPs’ expenses in detail from the web

If the data you want to analyze are a part of a web page, for example a HTML-table (or hundreds of them) it might be very time-consuming (and boring!) To manually copy/paste all of its content or even typewrite it to a spreadsheet table or data frame. Instead, you can let R do the job for you! This post is really aimed at beginners. Thus, to keep things simple it only deals with scraping one data table from one web page: a table published by BBC NEWS containing the full range of British Members of Parliament' expenses in 2007-2008. Excel Mapping with ArcGIS Online. Esri recently debuted the availability of Esri Maps for Office, a new component of its ArcGIS Online service that allows for the mapping of geographic data directly within Excel.

Excel Mapping with ArcGIS Online

Esri Maps for Office is part of Esri’s subscription based whole platform approach to mapping, meaning maps are available via the web (allowing interactive maps to be embedded on web sites), mobile apps, and Office products. ROI = Return On Infographics. Infographics about infographics are always fun.

ROI = Return On Infographics

Return on Infographics by Bit Rebels and NowSourcing takes a look at some of Bit Rebels’ own data from releasing infographics as part of their marketing. The impact of an infographic can be measured on many levels, which makes it all just a little bit more complex and complicated to present. The power of intermittent fasting. Scientists are uncovering evidence that short periods of fasting, if properly controlled, could achieve a number of health benefits, as well as potentially helping the overweight, as Michael Mosley discovered.

The power of intermittent fasting

I'd always thought of fasting as something unpleasant, with no obvious long term benefits. So when I was asked to make a documentary that would involve me going without food, I was not keen as I was sure I would not enjoy it. But the Horizon editor assured me there was great new science and that I might see some dramatic improvements to my body. So, of course, I said, "yes". I am not strong-willed enough to diet over the long term, but I am extremely interested in the reasons why eating less might lead to increased life span, particularly as scientists think it may be possible to get the benefits without the pain. How you age is powerfully shaped by your genes.

Growth hormone. Infographics Become Easy As Pie, With This Disruptive Font. This is part of a series highlighting notable entries in our Innovation By Design Awards.

Infographics Become Easy As Pie, With This Disruptive Font

Finalists will be announced in September. GoogleVis 0.2.17 is released: Displaying earth quake data. The next version of the googleVis package has been released on the project site and CRAN.

googleVis 0.2.17 is released: Displaying earth quake data

This version provides updates to the package vignette and a new example for the gvisMerge function. The new sections of the vignette have been featured on this blog in more detail earlier: Using googleVis with knitr (Link to post)Using Rook with googleVis (Link to post) Using Reduce with gvisMerge to display several charts on a page (Link to post)Additionally two little bugs were fixed: Data frames with one row only were not displayed in a chart.

Thanks to Oliver Jay and Wai Tung Ho for reporting this issue. The example in the gvisGeoChart help file, which scraps data from to display earth quakes of the last 30 days with magnitude ≥ 4.0, didn't display the magnitude correctly. Setting the region argument to 'IR' highlights the recent (11 August 2012) earth quake in north-west Iran near Tabriz and Ahar, which caused the death of hundreds and injured thousands. How to convert degrees/minutes/seconds angles to or from decimal angles in Excel 2000. Angular measurements are commonly expressed in units of degrees, minutes, and seconds (DMS).

How to convert degrees/minutes/seconds angles to or from decimal angles in Excel 2000

One degree equals 60 minutes, and one minute equals 60 seconds. To simplify some mathematical calculations you may want to express angular measurements in degrees and decimal fractions of degrees. This article contains a sample custom function you can use to convert a degree value stored in decimal format, to DMS stored in text format, and a sample function that converts DMS to a degree value stored in decimal format. Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. United Nations Initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management. Store All Your Fitness and Health Stats in This One App. Do you use more than one app to record and view your health and fitness stats?

A new app wants to be the one-stop-shop of apps for storing all of your health and fitness data. You may not actually use fewer apps, but with the Withings Health Companion, you can view all that health data in one place. The Withings Health Companion app [iTunes link] for iOS, launched on Aug. 13. It allows users to monitor their weight, physical activity, heart and sleep quality and sync it to the app — even if you use other apps to track that information. The health and fitness monitoring app space is a crowded one.

SEE ALSO: Free iPhone App Tracks Sleep, Gives Expert Advice. Multiple layers in Fusion tables map. Bookshelf Porn. OpenBuildingModels Repository Beta Launched. Modelling our world in 3D gets more and more important within the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project. There are several people in the community trying to push forward this development. A major problem is that OSM was not really designed for complex 3D modelling. The node/way/relation + tags based data model does not allow for complicated 3D modelling. Therefore, the community agreed to make use of external repositories containing more complex data which can be linked to OSM. OpenBuildingModels is such a repository for complex architectural 3D building models.

22 Websites that are Beautiful and Useful. Here at WDL, we like to keep you inspired by showing you beautifully designed websites every week with our web design inspirational lists. Today we decided to go a different route, and instead of picking a single “theme” of examples, we gathered examples of websites that are inspiring and useful for web designers. We gathered different tools and skill sharing websites to show you so you can be inspired and also discover a nice tool/service.

MyReadingMapped™ A Gentle Introduction to Python - Mechanical MOOC. 15 Current Technologies We’ll Still Be Using in 2030. Terms of Service; Didn't Read. The best iPad keyboard: is it time to finally ditch your laptop? The Greatest Human and Digital Viruses of All Time. Viruses. TELLING INFORMATION. Emerging Microbes & Infections. Removing the last 4 characters from each column. SCP — Lighting. Importing data directly from MS Excel. R is great for exploring, analysing and graphing your valuable data. No question about it. Unfortunately though, there’s no base package support for importing data directly from MS Excel. How the Public Actually Uses Local Government Web Maps: Metrics from Denver. What Douglas County Learned Moving its GIS to the Cloud. (CDC) What's New on the Malaria Site. Black or White: What Color Works Best for the Background of a Screen? Have you noticed that many business intelligence (BI) software companies have introduced black screens as the standard for mobile devices?

Is this because mobile devices work better with black screens? Infographic Vector Graphics. The R0 package: a toolbox to estimate reproduction numbers for epidemic outbreaks. Searchindexer.exe hogs CPU.