Mar 31, 2012

you are killing your grandchildren

comments on the bbc video on nice
" Old Ladie wanted an extramly expensive treatement in order to gain 6 months with her grandchildren , saying that she paid taxes all her life
TBD


----------U S case ---------------

Worst case sytem and less effective and the most expensive.

the us is nb one in responsiveness:

-- or resphnsive of usual care that is not used coz it's too expensive , hence most of the people

The goverment for dummies ( the police on a intersection)

game theory , ( nash / selfish ) vs optimal vs worst

perto or something similar example.

- nash = liberal , socialism = introsive gove , communism = optimal , dictatorship = only to one part of the

Diamonds in a pile of shit vs shit warped with a fancy golden paper

Neverthe lesss tThere is different types of bullshit:

pure shit in a systematic way ( ISO of of the protein milk factories)

part of the data without of anallysis ( data without analysis.., whats the usua care, what is the intervention.., money wasted for nothing)

bla bla bla for nothing ( how to lie with statistics

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my self : put the diamonds link them with shit


Mar 22, 2012

Copy a pdf table into excel

In the last couple of weeks, I was searching for some evidence in the literature related to resource usage in telemonitoring. And part of this job consisted on copy pasting table from PDF(I recommend using Foxit reader instead of Adobe reader ) to word. And believe me it’s not that as easy as you might think. In some cases, MS word can do most the work by converting the text into a table ( option 1), but in some cases the formatting of the original data is so distorted that even word cannot sort it. That why, I have written the following VBA code (option 2) to be added to excel (It could be useful in certain circumstances, and easily tweaked according to the original data).


Option 1 : use word convert text to table option :


Option 2
: Add this vba script replacing the space by comma ( from the end of the line)

Function TestingRev(inputStr As String) As String

Dim nbCol As Integer
nbCol = 4

Dim revInputStr As String
revInputStr = StrReverse(inputStr)

Dim ret As String

ret = Replace(revInputStr, " ", ";", 1, nbCol - 1)

TestingRev = StrReverse(ret)

End Function

- Copy paste the result in notepad and save it as *.csv file
- Open the csv file in excel and save it as