I ran into an issue the other day that ended up taking me hours to solve, in part because I couldn’t find any other solutions online, which is pretty unusual…
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Plex on Linux – Video Files Not Detected
I added a number of video files to my Plex server the other day and, when I checked Plex, some of them had not shown up in the corresponding library….
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Plex – Sports Videos Library
I use Plex to manage my music and video libraries. I actually don’t watch sports very often. The one exception is when I’m grading papers (I’m a college professor). I’ve…
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LibreOffice Calc: Graphs with Two y-axes with Different Scales
While a bit technical, it’s occasionally useful to plot multiple data series that have very different scales in the same chart. Let me give an example to illustrate. Let’s say…
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LibreOffice Calc: Interpolating Missing Values in Graphs
Here’s my situation. I have some data over time but I’m missing values in specific years. I want to graph that data but would rather not have to estimate all…
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Continue readingSetting Up a New Windows Computer for Your Kids
I recently had a colleague contact me for some computer advice. He knows I’m a computer geek and was looking for some help setting up a new Windows laptop for…
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Continue readingPlex/tinyMediaManager and Doctor Who Specials
I’m a science fiction fan. And I want my science fiction at my fingertips. To that end, I have slowly been digitizing my favorite series (e.g., Star Trek, Stargate, and…
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Continue readingR – create scatterplot with ggplot2
R has pretty amazing capabilities for creating charts and graphs. One of the most common packages for this is ggplot2. However, it’s not the most intuitive package I have used…
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Continue readingR – find cases (rows) that match specific criteria
I regularly need to find a specific case or set of cases that meet some criteria when analyzing data, often so I can modify those values for one reason or…
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Continue readingR – delete one or several variables in a dataset
I regularly create variables while analyzing data and then find that I need to delete a variable I created. At times, I just want to get rid of a variable…
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