James A. Rising

This page is a catalog of both some tools I’ve made and tools I use a lot.

Tools I’ve Made:

• Python SoundTouch Wrapper: See post
• Natural Language Paraphrasing Code: See post
• Crowd-Source Meta-Analysis Site: See poster
• MediaWiki Tools: LatexBlock (for larger latex inclusion), RaiseHand (for internet classroom questions), and Slider (to make wikipages into slideshows); all still need to be documented; github
• Twitter data collection scripts: See post
• Automated website data extraction: Ask me
• Automated flight fares searcher: Ask me
• Incremental Backup Manager: “Blackbox”, “Binary Difference Backup”
• See additional tools in my GitHub Repositories

Tools I Love:

• Personal Management Tools: Workflowy, for tasks; Contactually, for personal contacts, and aNobii, for books
• Online Systems: DreamHost, my webserver service.
• Work Environments: Emacs, for work; WriteRoom, for writing; Mendeley, for articles.
• Tools: LaTeX, for formatting; Gimp, for images
• Mathematics: Freemat, for matrices; R, for analysis.
• Data Management: Subversion and Git, for version control; MySQL and MongoDB, for databases.