Articles by mikerspencer
A technical interview question
How would you answer this question? How would you want others to answer this question? [Read more...]
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Coding in the Open – lunchtime seminars
Want to learn about automation, improving processes and how to incorporate open tools like Python and R? Want to learn about what open might mean for you, whether you're looking for tools, processes, principles or just general interest? [Read more...]
New paper: hares, snow and camouflage
Mountain hares in Scotland show increasing camouflage mismatch due to less snowy winters. Mountain hares are one of 21 species … More
How does your data flow? Using R for ETL (EdinbR talk)
On 25th Nov I spoke at the EdinbR meetup on using R for ETL, as a larger part of data … More
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A shiny app to compare mortgage costs
Pop the balloons – maths game for home schooling
Read this to find out about a maths game for home schooling, including some probability in R!
Lubridate/ggplot date helpers
Domestic data science – energy use
Mapping access to services to estimate community resilience – Edina geoforum
Record Dec temperature and snow in Scotland
Northern Scotland broken GB December temperature records in 2019, how has time affected snow cover?
Bump chart of a parliamentary constituency
Modelling Cairngorm snow to 2080
A baby named Al*
Council spending – open data
My local authority recently decided to publish all spending over £500 in an effort to be more transparent. Here’s a post taking an overview of what they’ve published. I’ve used R for the… Continue reading →
Conference abstract bi-grams – FOSS4GUK
I helped run a conference last week. As part of this I produced a wordcloud from the conference abstracts, although pretty it could have been more informative of the conference content. This blog post shows you how to make a network of conference bi-grams.
Cartography with R and QGIS, which to choose?
You should read this post if you want to learn about making maps in R and QGIS and what the advantages of each environment are. [Read more...]
Make an abstract booklet with R and LaTeX
Want to automate abstract booklet making? This is the post for you. [Read more...]
Getting a DOI for your code
This blog article is an explanation of sharing research code. It focuses on using the version control website Github and academic repository Zenodo. [Read more...]
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