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What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate · 5 Apr 2026

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 · 15 Feb 2026

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

What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate · 7 Jan 2026

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

What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate · 5 Dec 2025

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,

What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate · 12 Nov 2025

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

What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate · 11 Nov 2025

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

What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate · 29 Oct 2025

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

What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate · 2 Oct 2025

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

What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate · 24 Jun 2024

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.

What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate · 23 Jan 2024

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

The Gencove Blog - Medium · 12 Apr 2022

Fetching subsets of VCF files, a DIY approach

The vision of Gencove is that the universal application of genomics will result in a healthier and more sustainable civilization. As we work towards that vision, we regularly process large amounts

The Gencove Blog - Medium · 27 Oct 2021

Importing samples from Amazon S3

### New Gencove Feature Released At Gencove, we are committed to making genome sequencing more accessible. To that end, we are pleased to announce the ability to use Amazon S3 directly as an import

The Gencove Blog - Medium · 26 Oct 2021

Gencove Raises $10 Million to Meet the Global Demand for Accessible and Interpretable Whole Genome…

### **Gencove Raises $10 Million to Meet the Global Demand for Accessible and Interpretable Whole Genome Sequencing at Scale** ***The company’s low-pass genome sequencing and bioinformatics

The Gencove Blog - Medium · 5 Jul 2021

Project-level permissions

*tl;dr: users’ permissions can now be escalated on a per-project basis and auditing user access has become easier.* We’ve recently released an upgrade to Gencove’s permission system, which

The Gencove Blog - Medium · 20 May 2021

The coming commoditization of genome sequencing

*tl;dr: new competition in genome sequencing hardware will drive expanded use cases for sequencing analytics across industries* In [*Nature’s

The Gencove Blog - Medium · 16 Mar 2021

New imputation pipeline using newly resequenced data from 3202 individuals

*by Jeremy Li* The 1000 Genomes Project was completed in 2015 and culminated in its “phase 3 release” of phased genotypes from 2504 individuals at over 80 million variants, and remains the

The Gencove Blog - Medium · 11 Mar 2021

New publication in collaboration with the USDA: Assessment of Imputation from Low-Pass Sequencing…

### **New publication in collaboration with the USDA: “*Assessment of Imputation from Low-Pass Sequencing to Predict Merit of Beef Steers”*** *by Jeremy Li* Along with Warren Snelling and

The Gencove Blog - Medium · 4 Mar 2021

Gencove’s new pig haplotype reference panel

*by Jeremy Li, Data Scientist at Gencove* At Gencove, we’re continuously expanding the selection of species which can be used with imputation pipelines based off of low-pass sequencing. Unlike,

The Gencove Blog - Medium · 29 Jan 2021

Gencove V3 Cattle Panel

### Gencove’s improved cattle low-pass sequencing solution The new product supports more breeds and returns higher accuracy through an updated reference panel. We have also made it easier to use

The Gencove Blog - Medium · 9 Jan 2021

Enabling high-throughput SARS-CoV-2 sequencing and surveillance

At Gencove, our mission is to make genome sequencing accessible and interpretable. Over the past several weeks, it has become clear that a key missing piece of the response to the coronavirus crisis