What’s changed?
Andy Saunders writes: A couple of things come to mind. The planet on the right contains, on average, around 70% fewer animals than the planet on the left. The atmosphere of the planet on the right
What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate
Notes from the life of a [data] scientist
Creating custom (non-Font Awesome) icons for a Jekyll-based website
This one is pretty niche even by my standards. Notes largely for my own benefit, but they may be useful if you: I’ll assume that you have git-cloned jekyll-theme-chirpy, run bundle and are able to
Price’s Protein Puzzle: 2023 update
One of the joys (?) of having been online for…quite some time now…is watching topics reappear every few years or so. So what’s new? In terms of English word matches: not much. Some new proteins
Gene names, data corruption and Excel: the final chapter?
I suppose that after: it would be remiss of me not to mention: Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data. Is it really fixed though? Users have to know that the feature
Data discovery: seasonal speed
Just writing this one quickly as it’s been hanging around my browser tabs for weeks… I wrote Taking steps (in XML) almost 7 years ago and once in a while, I still grab Apple Health data from my
Pattern recognition in Google Maps
Headline: Second farm in the Hawkesbury region confirmed to have bird flu as biosecurity zone widened. Quite rightly, the news organisation chooses not to name the farm, nor reveal its location.
Still here. Still writing occasional posts for a tiny audience.
It’s been a while because, reasons. I’m still alive, still enjoying recreational R programming and still writing the occasional post. Like this one. Sam Lord writes on the site formerly known as
Brief thoughts on: the new Australian Bureau of Meteorology website
For those outside of Australia, the BOM website is where many Australians access weather information. It’s very popular with millions of visits per day, especially to the rain radar, and “the
Brief thoughts on: the slow death of Twitter
Why am I still there? I joined Twitter (I will never say ‘X’), unbelievably, in March 2008. I was sceptical of “microblogging” at the time but in those days, I was willing to try anything
Using R/anomalize to identify delays in games of Australian Rules football
In which we generate a dataset of game durations, do a little exploratory data analysis and then try to identify unusual instances and their causes. In my Twitter-whinge-post, I mentioned that one of
Brief thoughts on: iNaturalist
Let me say first: I was wrong! My profile shows that I created my account at iNaturalist in August 2008, the year that the site was launched. I created a lot of accounts in those days. At the time,
Directional markers in R/leaflet
So you have used the excellent exiftool to extract all of the GPS-related information from a directory of photos in JPG format and write to a CSV file: You’ve used R/leaflet to plot coordinates