Read this to find out about a maths game for home schooling, including some probability in R!
Lubridate/ggplot date helpers
Want to label your axis in annual plots? Read on!
Domestic data science – energy use
Want to see how you can use data science to reduce your energy bills?
Mapping access to services to estimate community resilience – Edina geoforum
Slides on spatial analysis of community resilience using R, GRASS and QGIS.
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
A bump chart showing the evolution of voting in the Midlothian constituency.
Modelling Cairngorm snow to 2080
Want to know the potential impacts of climate change on Scottish snow? Read on!
A baby named Al*
Make a plot of a list of baby name popularity.
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…
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.
