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		<title>Visualizing a train timetable using a stem-and-leaf plot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Which is the best way to visualize effectively a train timetable? Well probably there is a lot of ways to visualize this kind of data, and one of them is using the stem-and-leaf plot (called also stemplot). Using this technique the amount of data to display (hours and minutes) can be reduced.
Why are the stem-and-leaf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xavigimenez.net/blog/2011/11/visualizing-a-train-timetable-using-a-stem-and-leaf-plot-2/</link>
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		<title>Open Data for Catalonia and Data Visualization from Barcelona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised due to two great initiatives which demonstrate the interest that has Catalunya for the world of the open data and the data visualization.
The first one demonstrates how the catalan government is sensible about the value of providing data to the general public, businesses and other organisations so they would be able [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xavigimenez.net/blog/2010/11/open-data-for-catalonia-and-data-visualization-from-barcelona/</link>
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		<title>Peer 2 peer and the flash platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;ve attended the  MadeInFlex onsite IV, an event where some Adobe Platform evangelists have been talking about the last features of AIR 2.5, Flash Player 10.1 for Android, the integration between Flex 4 and Flash professional and other interesting stuff.
I&#8217;ve really got impressed about the posibilities that Flash and P2P can offer together. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xavigimenez.net/blog/2010/08/peer-2-peer-and-the-flash-platform/</link>
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		<title>Creating jagged arrays in Actionscript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First things first, what&#8217;s a jagged array?
A jagged array is an array whose elements are arrays. The elements of a jagged array can be of different dimensions and sizes. A jagged array is sometimes called an &#8220;array of arrays.&#8221;
Recently I&#8217;ve been playing with FLARTooKit and I found this function into the class ArrayUtils.as.


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		<link>http://www.xavigimenez.net/blog/2010/03/creating-jagged-arrays-in-actionscript/</link>
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		<title>Getting the picture of data visualization: Visualizing data by Ben Fry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the book I&#8217;m currently reading and if you are interested in the field of the Data Visualization, this book is a good starting point.
The author is Ben Fry, the founder (with Casey Reas) of Processing, a programming language, and development environment. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xavigimenez.net/blog/2010/02/getting-the-picture-of-data-visualization-visualizing-data-by-ben-fry/</link>
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		<title>Face detection: How to find faces with openCV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to my attempt to create a perceptual interface using OpenCV, this post is the first in a series to explain briefly some of the capabilities of the OpenCV library, an open-source computer-vision library.
OpenCV comes with over 500 functions that cover many areas in vision, and its goal is to provide a simple-to-use computer vision [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xavigimenez.net/blog/2010/02/face-detection-how-to-find-faces-with-opencv/</link>
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