Each short is self-contained and has text and/or a short video. Shorts are mini lessons that explain some small topic, concept, or common question succinctly. While shorts can be incorporated into courses like lessons, they are best utilized as answers to questions by students and are there best posted to a course’s associated Q&A forum.
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This short demonstrates how to parse a compressed (z.ip) XML and compressed (.zip) CSV files into R from local folders as well as from URLs. #R #CSV #XML Time: 10min · Level: intermediate
This short demonstrates how to parse an XML into R and then use indexed access to generate a CSV of a subset of the data. #R #CSV #XML Time: 10min · Level: intermediate
This short demonstrates how to generate synthetic game data for a fictitious hockey league. The data is saved in XML and CSV files. #R #CSV #Hockey #synthetic data #data Time: 10min · Level: intermediate
This short demonstrates how to start a new process from within a C program using fork and exec. #C #fork #exec #getpid Time: 10min · Level: intermediate
This short shows how to compile Java programs outside of a development environment (IDE) using the Java compiler and makefiles. #Java #makefile #compiling Time: 10 minmin · Level: beginner
This short explains the design considerations of an information architecture of a shared information space by using 'artificium' as an example. #database Time: 30min · Level: beginner
This short addresses why relational database continue to be the workhorse of organizational databases even though more and more NoSQL (or non-relational) are being developed. #database Time: 20min · Level: beginner