In an Input-Method framework, output-filters are required, besides various input-manners and input-engines, to provide a better user-experience. Speaker: Mr Wei-Lun Chao (bluebat) (Taiwan) Mr Wei-Lun Chao (bluebat) has worked as Development Team Lead or Project Manager for open source projects related to Linux system integration. He is also involved in translations for free software by […]
Year: 2014
Open Source visualization and presentation with R
In an Input-Method framework, output-filters are required, besides various input-manners and input-engines, to provide a better user-experience. Speaker: Mr Wei-Lun Chao (bluebat) (Taiwan) Mr Wei-Lun Chao (bluebat) has worked as Development Team Lead or Project Manager for open source projects related to Linux system integration. He is also involved in translations for free software by […]
Panda – a new way of programming
How will we be programming in the future? Why is programming so inaccessible to many people? I’ll give a short problem description (slides) and then live demo where we write some simple programs. The idea is that if you can say in one or two sentences what you want to program (in detail) and another […]
How to watch YouTube video without frying an egg on Linux Laptop ?
The talk starts with a simple question: how to watch YouTube video without frying an egg on Linux Laptop (since video decoding is a CPU-intensive process and produces a lot of heat). Then the speaker briefly introduces the backgrounds/issues/history about video decoding on Linux desktop includes: h264 patents (includes recent Cisco deal), Google VP8 (which […]
Learn R through Public Data Hacking: Introduction to Practical Data Science
Public data are everywhere but can you make use of them? This course aims to bring you the essential techniques such as data acquisition, data manipulation and data visualization to make sense out of the public data. The tool of choice is R. Why? We are the Hong Kong R User Group, that’s why. Speaker: […]
