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Making a Map of Exeter using geojson and ggplot2

A few weeks ago I discovered the Exeter Data Mill, an amazing project where really interesting data about Exeter are collected and published. This included a very interesting series of files called “Exeter shapes and locations” available under the Open Government License.
Last updated on Aug 6, 2021

Image Manipulation with magick in R

When I was interviewing electoral services staff for my PhD thesis I was told a story about how their software couldn’t take two scanned pages at once, so they were forced to physically cut and paste two pages together to fit on one side of A4 before they scanned it.
Last updated on Aug 5, 2021

Identifying generic emails

I am working on a project with a few colleagues in the politics department and we had a large number of email addresses to sort through. Some of them were generic: inquiries@example.
Last updated on Aug 3, 2021

Generating data in Python with Pandas

I’ve found myself with another free morning to practice Python. One of the things I’ve always heard about learning any new skill is that you should leave as long as possible after you learn anything before you practice it again.
Last updated on Feb 6, 2021

First Steps with Python 3

Here I am taking my first steps with Python 3. Although I learnt a little a year or so ago, it’s nearly all fallen out of my head, and I need to take a more systematic approach before I can really use it for anything.
Last updated on Nov 26, 2020

More Problems with the Website

The posts tab on this website has taken me more time than everything else put together, and so far I’ve used it less than any of the others. The trouble has been with writing custom HTML and CSS (with a great deal of help from my brother, a patient software developer).
Last updated on Nov 23, 2020

It's Live

I’ve now managed to get the website working. The problem now is finding interesting things to fill it with. To be honest this post is just a placeholder to see if I can get the tags working properly.
Last updated on Oct 6, 2020

Introduction

This website is a place for me to put all my research and course materials. That’s nearly all there is to it. For superfluous information, please read on. First, this website has been built using R Blogdown and Hugo Academic.
Last updated on Aug 11, 2020