Cartography with R and QGIS, which to choose?
You should read this post if you want to learn about making maps in R and QGIS and what the advantages of each environment are.continue reading.
You should read this post if you want to learn about making maps in R and QGIS and what the advantages of each environment are.continue reading.
Want to automate abstract booklet making? This is the post for you.continue reading.
This blog article is an explanation of sharing research code. It focuses on using the version control website Github and academic repository Zenodo.continue reading.
FOSS4G conference wordcloud of abstracts. Code included!continue reading.
I’m helping organise a conference on (geo)spatial open source software – FOSS4G. We’re hosting it in the great city of Edinburgh, Scotland in September 2019. Abstract submissions: https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2019/talks_workshops.html We’re very...continue reading.
I’ve been working with the Scottish census recently, to investigate employment in land-based (agriculture, forestry and fishing) industry. A friend of mine has recently moved to Dumfries and Galloway –...continue reading.
dplyr is much more useful than tapply, read on to find out why.continue reading.
Find out how to use R to summarise electricity use by hour or day.continue reading.
I was at the EdinbR talk this week by the RStudio community lead – Curtis Kephart. It was really interesting, but I disagree with his suggestion to point and click...continue reading.
I’ve written previously about Ordnance Survey’s Terrain 50 data and how you can merge it together. You can download the dataset from the OS’s opendata repo. I’d like to update...continue reading.
Want to know whether lapply is quicker than a for-loop? Is there a faster solution? This is the place!continue reading.
I read this tweet thread yesterday, and one of the great things in it was discovering that the Department for Transport release traffic count data for Great Britain. When you...continue reading.
Slides from January 2018 EdinbR session on spatial data in R.continue reading.
Network analysis presentation from the 7th Scottish QGIS user group. Featuring Ordnance Survey open data, QGIS, GRASS and R.continue reading.
This is part two in a series I’m writing on network analysis. The first part is here. In this section I’m going to cover allocating resources, again using the St...continue reading.
In April I spoke for the Royal Statistical Society (Glasgow branch) at their event celebrating 20 years of CRAN. The other speakers were Charis Chanialidis and Colin Gillespie. Like most...continue reading.