Archive for January, 2005
- 5 by 3 :: “Take on the world with a stack of 5 by 3 index cards”:http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/card_sorting_a_definitive_guide.php – one way to get Web sites sorted before clicking on the Dreamweaver icon when building a moderately complex Web site. This page describes card sorting techniques to help plan Web sites. Ideally card sorting can help define *content* – not so much [...] :: Saturday, January 29th, 2005 :: Posted in ILT | Comments Off
- Normal distribution sample simulation :: *Histograms are meaningless* for datasets smaller than about 500 items – you will be better off using a dotplot. I think that the ‘error bar’ for each bar of the histogram can be approximated by the square root of the frequency so that a bar with a frequency of 36 could have a standard deviation [...] :: Saturday, January 15th, 2005 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- Blood spatter pattern analysis :: The MathsWorks Project has a series of laboratory projects on different aspects of Maths in Biotechnology. One of the projects is about blood spatter pattern analysis and has a very usable practical using milk to calibrate the relationship between drop stain shape and angle of surface. There is also a good treatment of the mathematical assumptions [...] :: Saturday, January 1st, 2005 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off