Probably interesting to our readers is Bio-Polym Blog, a blog about bio-polymers, bio-degradable materials and more.
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Published by April 22nd, 2008 in future technology and other blogs. 1 CommentBASF podcasts: chemistry in everyday life
Published by April 20th, 2008 in future technology and link. 1 CommentYou are probably all aware of BASF’s very cool two podcasts:
Both very entertaining as well as educating… edutainment by the largest chemical company out there.
Derek has an entertaining story about column chromatography over at his blog. Too good we don’t often have to do any of those anymore when dealing with goo.
Oh, don’t ask how we purify this stuff… I have had two students sent to the hospital once because they lost their minds over a simple polymer purification 
How do *you* dig through masses of data?
Published by April 2nd, 2008 in future technology, software and state of the art. 3 CommentsMany of you know the problem: you are looking through a bunch of experiments, trying to understand what is happening. Maybe you are working on a screening problem, maybe you are even organized and structured and are using a statistical approach. But often you are not, and it is just looking at data, looking at plots of X versus Y, X versus Z, A versus B, etc.
How do you find the “golden data point”? What tools do you use for this? My best take right now is Microsoft Excel, but also a tool like Umetrics’s MODDE helps a lot if you really control the data you want to compare.
I just realized that Google has published a new API for data visualization, which supposedly can be used together with GoogleDocs. Has anyone tried that? (and also very nice is Google’s image generator for charts).
And then I came across this: Gapminder world data, which is just amazing.
Is there any way I can get my data to be displayed like this, interactively an as flexible? Anyone know how? (some trackbacks)
