Showing posts with label Coding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coding. Show all posts
Monday, July 1, 2019

geobr: shapefiles and official spatial data sets of Brazil in R

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In 2012, I published here a blog post about where to find shapefiles of Brazil. Since then, this has become one of the most popular posts ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

The race for the largest city in the world over the past 500 years

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In previous posts, I've pointed out to an incredible open dataset with comprehensive population estimates of human settlements and ci...
Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Fresh new start

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That uplifting feeling that every new year/project is an opportunity to have a fresh new start. image credit: MonkeyUser
Monday, October 23, 2017

Quote of they day: programming

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"In programming the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve."   Paul Graham , HT  Programming Wi...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Quote of the day: programming

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"Computers are stupid and they will act like they don't know what you're talking about" #SfAMECS #Bioinformatics p...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Creating tilted and stacked maps in R using ggplot2

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I've just created a gist showing how to create tilted and stacked maps in R using ggplot2  in two steps. This was only possible thanks...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

R Links

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Using R to model spatial patterns of urban growth in Africa Great 'course' on network visualization with R , by Katherine Ognyanov...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Assorted Links

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Cyclists will outnumber car drivers entering central London in rush hour in the next few years, according to Transport for London (TfL) 3...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Programming Music with Punched Cards

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I've just learned this 'instrument' is called a  fairground organ . This is as hipster as you can get with coding. ps. in cas...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

The recent story of my life

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I saw this via  Arthur Charpentier , who has remarkably good  twitter  and  blog  you might like. [image credit: the unmistakable  ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

A Cheat Sheet for Raster analysis in R

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Etienne Racine  has written a great  Cheat Sheet for Raster analysis in R . Some of you might find it useful as well.
Friday, August 14, 2015

How I feel after a few days of data cleaning

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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Assorted Links

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The average price for a Manhattan residence is $1.7 million A nice visual introduction to machine learning Contemporary art with Classi...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

The Queen Of Code [replay]

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Celebrate women in science! I have never heard about  Grace Hopper  until recently. After watching this short documentary from  FiveThi...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The Queen Of Code

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I have never heard about  Grace Hopper  until recently. After watching this short documentary from  FiveThirtyEight , I can't believe ...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Chart of the Day

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Nice data visualization on gender differences in GitHub repository ownership, by Alyssa Frazee . The green colors represent the share of G...