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Finding Postcodes using `arcgisgeocode`

Fun
R

Using the package arcgisgeocoder, along with a shiny app and leaflet to smooth ways of finding postal codes.

Satellites and Bedrock - Part III

R
Donegal
Maps

Looking at the ways in which satellite images from Sentinel could be used to examine underlying bedrock types. In this third of a three part series, we look at ways of stacking the satellite data and then squaring that off with what we've seen from bedrock.

Satellites and Bedrock - Part II

R
Donegal
Maps

Looking at the ways in which satellite images from Sentinel could be used to examine underlying bedrock types. In this second of a three part series, we look at ways of accessing satellite data from the Sentinel satellites.

Satellites and Bedrock - Part I

R
Donegal
Maps

Looking at the ways in which satellite images from Sentinel could be used to examine underlying bedrock types. In this first of a three part series, we look at ways of accessing bedrock data from GSI.

Brain Areas

R
Bioinformatics
Academia

Looking at the heirarchy of brain areas in the Allen Brain Atlas

Golf Courses in Donegal - Part II, analysis

Sport
Donegal

A quick look at the pars, lengths, and handicap indices of golf courses in Donegal and surrounds. In this second part we'll look at some plots that investigating these numbers.

Golf Courses in Donegal - Part I, data access

Sport
Donegal
Web Scraping

A quick look at the pars, lengths, and handicap indices of golf courses in Donegal and surrounds. In this first part we'll look at how to get hold of the data by some web scrapping, a second post will do some analysis of the numbers.

patchwork & gt tables

Academia
R

gt makes beautiful tables, and patchwork is a wonderful package for combining plots. This post shows a way to make them work together.

Primel

R
Fun

Primel is the numeric equivalent of wordle, using 5 digit prime numbers instead of words. This post un-picks this in R.

Jupiter Trojans

Physics
R

NASA's Lucy mission launched earlier this year, setting out to examine the Jupiter Trojans. We'll have a look at them now.

SDSS Data Access

Physics
R

How to get hold of data from the SDSS astronomical catalogue.

University Points

Academia
R

How do entry level points vary by university. And a chance to play with geomtextpath.

University Choices

Academia
R

Navigating through the college choice options from the CAO.

Halloween Poster

Images
Fun

Giving a COVID poster that halloween vibe.

Electoral Vote

Politics
Web Scraping

Tracking US politician's in the news.

University Rankings

Academia
R
Maps

Seeing the world through QS university rankings.

Donegal's Architectural Heritage

Maps
Donegal

Having a look at some of the historical buildings in Donegal, thanks to data from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Also a chance to check out crosstalk and leafpop. Note; images will take a while to appear

Horn Head in 3D

Maps
Donegal

Horn Head gets the Rayshader Treatment.

World Ocean Day

Maps
Donegal

A map of the North Atlantic off the Donegal Coast, with pop-ups detailing various species observed at different locations.

Solvay Conference

Images
R

This is what it looks like to change the world.

Derry Girls

Images
R

Using FACE++ to read emotions on images of faces.

Schizophrenia Genes

Bioinformatics

A karyogram of the genes featured in GWAS of schizophrenia.

Meteorites....

Physics

...and where to find them.

Tennis Sets

Fun
Sport

My tennis coach thinks that tennis matches frequently feature a close first set followed by a blow-out in the second.

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