Website of the Day – Slideshare

I came across an interesting site while reading [World’s Best Presentation Contest Winners Announced][1] by [Guy Kawasaki][2] called [SlideShare][3].

It’s a happy medium between the bulk of image sites like Flickr and Yahoo Photos and video sites like Revver and YouTube where you can easily add Text to what you are wanting to say in a Slide Show. Interestingly enough, like most Web 2.0 Communities people will come up with ideas you never considered, for example check out Evangeline Lilly where this is effectively a portfolio photo shoot of an actress. Clever.

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Producing IQR and Outlier statistics with SQL

Producing IQR and Outlier statistics with SQL

The interquartile range (IQR) measures the spread of the middle 50% of a distribution — the distance between the first quartile (Q1) and the third quartile (Q3). Combined with Tukey’s 1.

Producing Mode statistics with SQL

Producing Mode statistics with SQL

The mode is the value or values that appear most frequently in a dataset. Unlike the mean or median, it applies naturally to categorical and ordinal data — star ratings, product codes, survey responses — and reveals what is most common, not what is average.

Extending MySQL Capabilies with UDFs, Plugins and Components - Part 2

Extending MySQL Capabilies with UDFs, Plugins and Components - Part 2

MySQL offers three different approaches to extending the SQL capabilities with the default product you download and install. These are: User Defined Function (UDF) MySQL Manual MySQL Plugin MySQL Manual MySQL Component MySQL Manual In my prior post I provided a new uuidv function that accepted a numeric argument to return a string of the version of UUID specified.