Ananda Mahto

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I play with R mostly because I like how it allows me to deal with problems I didn't even know I had to begin with. Do I actually use R in my day-to-day work? As a writing teacher, not really....

I like r questions, particularly those involving aggregate, reshape, or regex, and recently, data.table.

More places to find me online:

My rarely updated blog, website, and Google+ profile
Github, mostly with my slowly growing set of utility functions
Connexions, sometimes working on Collaborative Statistics Using R
StackExchange network, particularly Graphic Design

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Mar 18	awarded	Yearling
Feb 3	comment	Are people in science-related fields appreciating clean and simple slides? You have only mentioned feedback (or lack thereof) with respect to the "design". What sort of feedback have you received with respect to the presentation overall. Ultimately, I'm not sure that this question is answerable in its current form. It currently seems like the question is only concerned with the aesthetic view of "design", but even if something is pretty, it doesn't mean it is "well-designed".
Dec 24	comment	Identify strange font / symbols in a riddle; maybe GIMP-made It looks to me like a foreign alphabet. I would suggest that you try starting with Thai and other Indic scripts.
Dec 22	comment	How can I save an Inkscape drawing so it can be opened in CorelDRAW without losing layer information? A quick Google search turned up this script that lets you export individual SVG layers as PDF files. Sort of a hassle, but might be a temporary workaround if you need something urgently. Other recommendations (not tested) include grouping the objects in each layer, moving them all the one layer (but still grouped), and exporting as a plain SVG. Haven't had a chance to test either of these, hence I'm adding this as a comment instead of an answer. Will try to find some time later to test them out.
Dec 21	comment	How can I save an Inkscape drawing so it can be opened in CorelDRAW without losing layer information? SVGs don't really support layers. One of the differences between an Inkscape SVG and a plain SVG while saving is that an Inkscape SVG can include some group level tags specific to Inkscape to tell Inkscape to treat that group as a layer.
Dec 5	comment	how to reduce the size of my graphic design cv? @Skaught, good call. I hadn't noticed that comment in the quick reading of the question. I've modified my suggestion to saying flatten everything but the text layer (which they can do in Photoshop) and going from there. Of course, if they are going to be optimizing things in Photoshop to begin with, a lot of what I've suggested can be done there too :)
Dec 5	revised	how to reduce the size of my graphic design cv? Added a note about flattening
Dec 5	answered	how to reduce the size of my graphic design cv?
Dec 4	comment	Which font have the same width for every character? There are too many to list. Simply search for "monospaced", "fixed-width", or "non-proportional" font, and you would be able to find many examples.
Nov 25	comment	Hyphenation on many line breaks @LaurenIpsum, Trivia: I don't have a copy of the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style handy, but according to the online reference (section 7.43) "For aesthetic reasons, no more than three succeeding lines should be allowed to end in hyphens. (Such hyphens are sometimes referred to as a hyphen stack.)"
Nov 25	comment	Hyphenation on many line breaks @LaurenIpsum, maybe obscure wasn't the right word. I just know I had to think quite a bit to remember what I had heard them called once or twice, and then when I searched for "typography ladders" I wasn't getting anything definitive from what I would consider "reliable" sources. Perhaps I should try searching with "proofreader ladders"? But, now that I think of it, I do remember having to look for ladders at the beginning of lines too, right?
Nov 24	answered	Hyphenation on many line breaks
Nov 24	answered	Downsampling images when they are produced, or in the final document?
Nov 24	comment	Downsampling images when they are produced, or in the final document? What software are you working with? Many programs allow you to `link` to files rather than `embed` your files, which might offer some more flexibility when it comes to "changing your mind" about your image sizes.
Oct 31	answered	Converting a PDF that has multiple pages per page into all single pages
Oct 22	comment	Extract image x/y coordinates and width and height info from PDF via IL or PS Maybe you can look into a tool like g3data but that tool is more geared towards charts and graphs.
Oct 21	answered	What are great examples of the influence that design has?
Oct 21	comment	What are great examples of the influence that design has? I'm assuming you're specifically limiting yourself to the topic of graphic design? John Snow's cholera map comes to mind.
Oct 19	comment	Opening Inkscape SVG in Illustrator, not looking right Inkscape has several SVG formats (inkscape, optimized, plain, compressed...). Perhaps try saving with a different SVG format (my guess would be plain) or even a format like EPS or PDF, both of which Illustrator might have better luck importing correctly.
Oct 18	comment	Color Intervals For 0to255.com Online Tool Ah... I didn't see the 9+ million statement on the homepage. Now where did the author of that page come up with that number? At least we know the mathematics behind 16 million ;) Kuler is nice, but I've always been somewhat partial to the color scheme designer if only because of the ability to quickly preview colors for the colorblind as well as the rest of us and its ease of exporting the color pallet to be used in different applications.