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Notes from the life of a \[data] scientist
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What’s changed?
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5 Apr 2026
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
Creating custom (non-Font Awesome) icons for a Jekyll-based website
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15 Feb 2026
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
Directional markers in R/leaflet
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7 Jan 2026
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
Brief thoughts on: iNaturalist
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5 Dec 2025
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,
Using R/anomalize to identify delays in games of Australian Rules football
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12 Nov 2025
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: the slow death of Twitter
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11 Nov 2025
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
Brief thoughts on: the new Australian Bureau of Meteorology website
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29 Oct 2025
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
Still here. Still writing occasional posts for a tiny audience.
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2 Oct 2025
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