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See the Portfolio Page on this! We decided to restrict this to Adult Medicine specialties. I was able to find a very useful annual census on the Royal College...

See the portfolio page for this! Although I have already made Sonart, which let's me put records 'on' with Sonos, I still wasn't quite satisfied with my music setup....

See the portfolio page on this! Some notes on this analysis: Historical house sale transactions can be downloaded from the Land Registry. However, the address data isn't well mastered, and...

I wanted an easy of way of developing scala and spark code on my local Windows machine. These steps got it working. 1. Download and install java: http://java.com/en/download/ 2. Install...

I used python and the Spotify API to make a playlist with the top 3 tracks of (almost) every artist on the Glastonbury line-up. We were lucky enough to get Glastonbury...

Below I've recorded (and slightly curated) the steps I took to get my home server fully up and running. Configuring Hardware Installing SSD First off I put the SSD...

I've been looking at speed distributions derived from GPS tracking data. When I started to see some strange peaks in the distribution, I investigated to see if they were being...

I've migrated my blog to this new site, and in the process created a split between my projects, and my blog entries.

We recently had a requirement for UK weather data. A little digging around revealed that hourly weather observation data is available, free of charge from the UK met office,...

Sonart is my project to control Sonos / Spotify directly via a camera and album covers. I got the application up and running last night, and it works a...

Sonart is my project to control Sonos / Spotify directly via a camera and album covers. Since building the POC (see my last post above), I wanted to make...

I have Sonos speakers in my flat. In combination with Spotify, this allows me to play just about whatever music I want, in whichever rooms of the flat, simply by...

I have written before about geospatial data types and the open source libraries which can be used to manipulate them. Today, I needed to take some geospatial data which was...

Note: I also spotted the same pattern in a different override of the save method, so changed it there too... Finally, don't go to all the bother of...

Edit: Since writing this I've found lots of ways to simplify this solution, for instance making use of the lag function in MS SQL, or MySQL solutions using variables,...

A nice data science map by Swami Chandrasekaran.

Tasked with optimising a complicated system, I went down the route of heuristic optimisation and ended up creating a simulated annealing algorithm in R. I don't want to go into too...

Always a great fallback tool when you get ugly flat files. Recently I received 45 500mb flat files. Each one had a 5 lines of headers, with the row...