Notes from the life of a [data] scientist
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 also contains around 100 ppm, or 30%, more CO2 than the planet on the left. It seems to me Continue reading What s changed?
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 serve the site on a local machine by running bundle exec jekyll serve. On opening 127.0.0.1:4000 in a browser, the Continue reading Creating custom (non-Font Awesome) icons for a Jekyll-based website
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 (latitude and longitude) before, but what about that tag named GPSImgDirection? It would be nice to have some kind of marker Continue reading Directional markers in R/leaflet
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, the site was essentially a hobby project powered by Ruby on Rails. There were a lot Continue reading Brief thoughts on: iNaturalist
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 its last redeeming features is the AFL statistics community. I always feel the need to apologise for the sports-related posts to long-time Continue reading Using R/anomalize to identify delays in…
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 once. Back then I was a research scientist and as it turned out, there was a sizeable community of scientists Continue reading Brief thoughts on: the slow death of Twitter
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 BOM is even part of everyday language and culture. So much so that an attempt to prevent use of the acronym generated widespread criticism. Continue reading Brief thoughts on: the new Australian Bureau of…
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 Twitter: I bet that we can answer that using R/fitzRoy. Here s one attempt. A rare feat? Well, there are 56 players, of 2 Continue reading Still here. Still writing occasional posts for a tiny audience.
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. However, they do include several aerial photographs including this one. Somewhat distinctive? Indeed, a little scrolling around the Hawkesbury region in Google Maps, with Continue reading Pattern…
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 phone and play around with it in R for a few minutes. Sometimes, curve fitting to a cloud Continue reading Data discovery: seasonal speed