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		<title>Stacey, The Lightweight Content Management System</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2012/02/05/stacey-the-lightweight-content-management-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Browsing around the web the other day, I found a clean, lightweight template system called Stacey [http://www.staceyapp.com]. The layout and look is very straightforward and uncluttered. Using a subset of HTML tags, the most interesting feature is that it does not rely on any database &#8212; it is completely text-based. It&#8217;s also opensourced at github [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying Sentiment Analysis to the Bible « OpenBible.info Blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/10/19/applying-sentiment-analysis-to-the-bible-%c2%ab-openbible-info-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.balinsbooks.com/?p=892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you look at the language in the Bible, try to determine who&#8217;s happy and who&#8217;s not, then graph it all out? OpenBible.info has done just that and posted a nice, circular graphic showing the ebbs and flows of positive and negative vibes in the Bible. It&#8217;s a pretty vanilla linguistic analysis, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings [Kieran Healy&#039;s Weblog]</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/31/text-editors-in-the-lord-of-the-rings-kieran-healys-weblog/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/31/text-editors-in-the-lord-of-the-rings-kieran-healys-weblog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating text editors to The Lord of the Rings&#8230; Clever&#8230; Kieran Healy&#8217;s Weblog – Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings. The list makes clever use of reality and fiction. I wonder what JEdit would be? Which text editor do you use? HT R-bloggers]]></description>
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		<title>OT/NT Refs: Source code now available on GitHub</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/09/otnt-refs-source-code-now-available-on-github/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/09/otnt-refs-source-code-now-available-on-github/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re interested in seeing the code for the OT/NT Ref graph, I&#8217;ve posted it to GitHub: balinjdl/OT-NT-Reference-Map &#8211; GitHub. All source files are there, along with a README, LICENSE, and sample graphics. I&#8217;ll continue posting about the development here, but code changes will only be updated on GitHub. Enjoy!]]></description>
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		<title>OT/NT Refs: Development log, entry #5</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/08/otnt-refs-development-log-entry-5/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/08/otnt-refs-development-log-entry-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Completed Added layers (Quotations, Allusions, and Possible Allusions are all on separate layers, independently controllable (see below), as are the book arcs); Added panning (click-and-drag to move); Added keyboard event handler (to toggle visibility of layers (&#8220;q&#8221;/&#8221;a&#8221;/&#8221;p&#8221; for 3 link layers, &#8220;b&#8221; for book arcs, &#8220;c&#8221; to recenter view*, and &#8220;r&#8221; to reset view to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OTNT Graphic Development slideshow</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/06/otnt-graphic-development-slideshow/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/06/otnt-graphic-development-slideshow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<title>OT/NT Refs: Development log, entry #4</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/06/otnt-refs-development-log-entry-4/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/06/otnt-refs-development-log-entry-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.balinsbooks.com/?p=840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Completed Added book names/labels (reversed orientation and set justification=&#8221;right&#8221; when angle &#60; 90 or &#62; 270) Added chapter ticks (first chapter + every 10th chapter) Added think black border around book arc Reduced thickness of link lines (from 2pt to 1pt) Added buffer between link line ends and book arcs (&#8220;var innerBuffer = 5&#8243;) Added [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OT/NT Refs: Development log, entry #3</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/04/otnt-refs-development-log-entry-3/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/04/otnt-refs-development-log-entry-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.balinsbooks.com/?p=834</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Completed Added all the direct quotation links Fixed the link lines (now they point to the correct location (based on the chapter of the reference) on the arc, not the first point) Added some color (a little different than in my first post, but same groupings) to the links; Shrank the arc depth; Expanded the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OT/NT Refs: Development log, entry #2</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/04/otnt-refs-development-log-entry-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/04/otnt-refs-development-log-entry-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Added some random links to test where I should set the &#8220;through&#8221; point &#8212; at 2r/3, 1r/3, 7r/8, or some other value (notice the grey circles in the graphic at those settings). Suggestions? &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Firefox custom search engine: Pinboard</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/04/firefox-custom-search-engine-pinboard/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/04/firefox-custom-search-engine-pinboard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.balinsbooks.com/?p=823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[pinboard.in is a great service, a cleaner, simpler alternative to delicious. After switching, I&#8217;ve added a lot of new bookmarks, so many that it&#8217;s getting harder to find ones I need. While I don&#8217;t spend a lot of time on the pinboard website itself, I found myself wondering what other bookmarks I&#8217;d already added. Solution: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OT/NT Refs: Development log, entry #1</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/03/otnt-refs-development-log-entry-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/03/otnt-refs-development-log-entry-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m building a JavaScript-based graphic depicting references of Old Testament passages in the New Testament. I originally started with Circos (see earlier post: Old Testament/New Testament reference graphic), but didn&#8217;t like the lack of interactivity. Circos makes very pretty static graphics, but I&#8217;d like to be able to drill down and adjust the display based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper.js &#8212; SVG with JavaScript</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/06/29/paper-js-svg-with-javascript/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/06/29/paper-js-svg-with-javascript/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.balinsbooks.com/?p=814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Testament/New Testament reference graphic</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/06/27/old-testamentnew-testament-reference-graphic/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/06/27/old-testamentnew-testament-reference-graphic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve struggled with a way to visually depict how often (and how) the New Testament writers used the Old Testament, whether explicitly (quotations) or implicitly (allusions). While trying to come up with something useful and visually appealing, I found two separate, yet very useful tools: New Testament References to Old Testament Scriptures (http://mb-soft.com/believe/txh/ntot.htm) &#8212; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>StatJump &#8211; Data Search Made Easy</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/11/statjump-data-search-made-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/11/statjump-data-search-made-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, the great Revolutions blog posted (&#8220;Visualizing the census&#8220;) about a new utility called StatJump where you can visualize data from the 2010 US Census using, of course, R. Pretty impressive. The image here shows the percentage of students graduating High School, by county. There are tons of canned visualizations &#8212; just click one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution &#124; FlowingData</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/23/how-to-make-a-heatmap-%e2%80%93-a-quick-and-easy-solution-flowingdata/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/23/how-to-make-a-heatmap-%e2%80%93-a-quick-and-easy-solution-flowingdata/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution &#124; FlowingData.]]></description>
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		<title>R creators win prestigious Statistical Computing and Graphics Award &#8211; Revolutions</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/03/revolutions-r-creators-win-prestigious-statistical-computing-and-graphics-award/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/03/revolutions-r-creators-win-prestigious-statistical-computing-and-graphics-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.balinsbooks.com/?p=636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The American Statistical Association recently created a new, bi-annual award to to recognize an individual or team for innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a great impact on statistical practice or research. The committee has just announced the winner (or in this, joint winners) of the first award: Robert Gentleman and Ross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create and Use Barcodes to Simplify Your Book List</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/09/upcean-barcode-generator-barcodesinc/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/09/upcean-barcode-generator-barcodesinc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In keeping track of my books, I have been looking for a simple way to generate barcodes as individual graphics that I could embed in my book list. I think I&#8217;ve found it: Dan Bornstein&#8217;s Barcode Server, which I found at the BarcodesInc&#8216;s UPC/EAN Barcode Generator.While the online version is nice, I wanted something a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interactive data visualizations with R</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/03/revolutions-interactive-stock-visualizations-with-r/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/03/revolutions-interactive-stock-visualizations-with-r/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeroen Ooms, a visiting scholar at UCLA&#8217;s Department of Statistics, has been very busy with R &#8212; he has two wonderfully slick online apps where users are able (for free) to visualize datasets using R&#8217;s ggplot. If you&#8217;re interested in R, stocks, or just data visualization, you&#8217;ll find something of real value in his applications. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the preservation of favoured traces &#124; ben fry</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2009/12/31/the-preservation-of-favoured-traces-ben-fry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always enjoyed a nice graphical diff, like WinDiff, WinMerge, or KDiff3 &#8212; something that shows how a document has changed since some previous incarnation. Ben Fry, father of Processing, has taken this idea to an extreme with Darwin&#8217;s Origin of Species by showing how Darwin&#8217;s book changed with each revision, graphically depicting the variations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intro to The R Programming Language: For Programmers</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2009/08/31/the-r-programming-language-for-programmers-coming-from-other-programming-languages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who&#8217;s new to R and curious about what it can do, one of the first questions I ask is how does it compare to Java, C#, Perl, etc. (Insert language-of-choice here.) Fortunately,John Cook has answered that question with his blog post: The R programming language for programmers coming from other programming languages. Take [...]]]></description>
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