Links June 19th
June 19th, 2009 • Uncategorized
- Adding Google Maps To Your Rails Applications – "In the months following publication of the final part of the very popular series on integrating Google Maps into PHP applications, I've spent quite a bit of time working with another popular Web technology: Ruby on Rails. As it turns out, Rails developers have been hard at work creating a few amazing plugins capable of adding powerful mapping capabilities to your applications. In this new series, I'll introduce you to these powerful plugins, showing you a number of tips and tricks along the way."
- Geocoding with the Rails GeoKit Plugin – "In the opening installment of this series, you learned how to integrate Google Maps into your Rails applications by using the powerful YM4R/GM plugin. YM4R/GM makes it trivial to add maps and map features such as icons and information windows, but requires you to first derive the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates of the desired locations. But what if you don't know these coordinates? Enter the GeoKit plugin."
- HubLog: Yahoo! PlaceMaker – "As an entity extraction service – the actual service, ignoring the quality of the results – Yahoo! PlaceMaker is excellent. It takes plain text or XML as input, and returns a list of places identified within the text. For XML input, it even returns an XPath and offsets for each entity so you can easily splice the annotations back into the document. Here's somewhere you can test the extraction, though it's only marking the centre of extracted locations, not the whole region."
- Geokit for Ruby & Rails: home – "Rails + Geokit = easier mapping apps. Geokit provides geocoding, location finders, distance calculations, and more."
- Togaware: Rattle: Gnome Cross Platform GUI for Data Mining using R – "Rattle: Gnome Cross Platform GUI for Data Mining using R" might be the closest thing to a Weka-style collection of tools
- Book Recommendations « Statistical Programming with Clojure –