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Making a shiny app to check OS Grid references

Recently I was working with the OS Terrain 50 dataset to make a basemap. Its a wonderful resource, but if you download all of the data as gml files you will be faced with a very long list of folders containing all the…

Making Animations and Videos in R

This post details how to make animated graphs in R. For the sake of simplicity…

Making Bubble Maps with Folium

Configuring Python to work like ESS mode in Spacemacs

I have found one of the best packages in emacs to be ESS mode which allows me to work seamlessly with R. I much prefer the setup and workflow of ESS than R Studio which I…

Optimal Data Decompression in R

I’ve recently encountered a situation where I am working with very large datasets in…

Monitoring memory usage in jupyter notebooks

I recently encountered a series of memory errors when using pandas in the LSE high powered computing environment. While detailing the problem…

Working with deciles and timeseries in python and pandas

Recently I’ve been working with the Land Registry’s price paid data set looking at shifts in prices in different areas of the market. One of the ways I’ve been segmenting…

Academic PDF management with Zotero

This is a test post. In this post, I try out different functionalities