From Bob Rudis' blog comes a weekly data/coding challenge. I didn't quite get the time to tackle last week's but I thought this one offered up a pretty good opportunity. Half the challenge is of course data processing/tidying, which is...Continue Reading →

I'll be heading to the 2016 ROpenSci un-conference (hackathon) in Brisbane later this month to smash out a heap of open-science R code. Ideas are already flowing quite nicely, and I'm confident that any ideas we don't end up officially...Continue Reading →

Another day, another interesting challenge. I follow Bob Rudis' (a.k.a. hrbrmstr's) blog, typically via R-bloggers, and this post caught my eye. Partly because I thought I knew of an existing way to do this. As usual, actually getting that to...Continue Reading →

This was a neat graphic that someone made. It shows the population at a given latitude or longitude as a bar chart, overlayed on a map of the world itself. It shows where people live; the bigger the bar, the...Continue Reading →

Have you seen the little shark-fins on top of some traffic light control boxes? Have you seen the new 'x minutes to y road' signs? Did you know they're connected? DPTI installed a heap of bluetooth sensors around Adelaide and...Continue Reading →