Visualizing spreadsheet content provides analytic insight and visual validation of large amounts of spreadsheet data. Oculus Excel Visualizer is a point and click data visualization experiment which directly visualizes Excel data and re-users the layout and formatting already present in the spreadsheet.

Distributed hash tables (DHTs) excel at exact-match lookups, but they do not directly support complex queries such as semantic search that is based on content. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to efficient semantic search on DHT overlays. The basic idea is to place indexes of semantically close files into same peer nodes with high probability by exploiting information retrieval algori...

Data specific to 486 strains belonging to Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium culmorum were manually collected from Luxembourg field monitoring campaigns between the year 2007 ad 2013. It is of interest to store such data in a web-enabled advanced database to help in epidemiological studies. Hence, we describe the design and development of a Fusarium database added to the Luxembourg Microbial Cul...

BACKGROUND The use of network meta-analysis has increased dramatically in recent years. WinBUGS, a freely available Bayesian software package, has been the most widely used software package to conduct network meta-analyses. However, the learning curve for WinBUGS can be daunting, especially for new users. Furthermore, critical appraisal of network meta-analyses conducted in WinBUGS can be chall...

This paper describes an effort to make Microsoft Excel Chartsline, pie, bar/column, radar, scatteraccessible using NVDA screen reader. This solution fetches chart informationaxis, axis title, series, trend line, chart title, chart area, plot area, legend, legend entry, legend keyusing Excel Native APIs and presents the information for each element type as separate navigable object. User study r...

Many students have difficulty understanding the concept of dynamic programming, a problem solving approach appropriate to use when a problem can be broken down into overlapping sub-problems. In addition, computer science majors seldom take a course in which a spreadsheet application is taught or used, although spreadsheet applications can be a great tool in visualizing and solving problems. Thi...

Current forecasting software can be problematic in its level of integration with Microsoft Excel forecasting models. Standalone forecasting software operates in a batch mode with Excel and is impossible to run interactively without custom programming. Excel forecasting add-ins are designed to work within Excel and can be automated to use with forecasting models, but lack support for damped tren...

Females are generally better than males at recognizing facial emotions. However, it is not entirely clear whether and in what way females may also excel at non-affective face recognition. Here, we tested males and females on two perceptual face recognition tasks that involved only neutral expressions: detection and identity discrimination. On face detection (Experiment 1), females were signific...

A critical component essential to good research is the accurate and efficient collection and preparation of data for analysis. Most medical researchers have little or no training in data management, often causing not only excessive time spent cleaning data but also a risk that the data set contains collection or recording errors. The implementation of simple guidelines based on techniques used ...