Dickens’ “Pictures from Italy”, a Victorian travelogue
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
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Low-emission bus fleets in cities, a data card
Looking at data about the share of low-emission buses in fleets from specific cities
The most frequently used keys in Classical era music
Exploring the favourite keys used by composers of the Classical era, in data.
A journey through Renoir’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
The Svalbard seed vault, a data preparation example
A walkthrough example of gathering data and preparing it ahead of analysis and display, with detailed steps.
The world records in freestyle swimming, in data
The world records in freestyle swimming, for men and women, a data card.
Viral families and viral species, a data card
Building the landscape of viral families and species in a data viz
The various types of vaccines under work for COVID-19
Several of the candidates under work for a COVID-19 vaccine use methods and technologies which are novel and not used yet in existing vaccines.
Running for a COVID-19 vaccine - research at turbo speed
Looking at the volume of candidate vaccines against COVID-19 and their progress in pre-clinical and clinical phases, in time
How much has the media reported about climate change?
Looking at the volume of stories about climate change in the media to assess how this area has been discussed historically, a case from the New York Times.
Stories around the frequency of tags on Stack Overflow
We analysed how the frequency of tags on Stack Overflow behaves, what are the relevant distributions, whether the age of a tag has an effect and what part do...
The average meaning of average
How the word average is used in regular talk and how to interpret and calculate it best
English stopwords and Python libraries
Stopwords in English and finding them in NLP libraries
The growth of vocabulary in different languages, reloaded
The Heaps’ law in different languages from Wikipedia text data
The growth of vocabulary in different languages
Studying the Heaps’ law in different languages from NLTK Corpora
Dissecting the Gradient Descent method
A tutorial on the Gradient Descent method, done from scratch
I messaggi di fine anno dei presidenti della Repubblica: alcune parole specifiche
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno, continuazione su parole specifiche
I messaggi di fine anno dei presidenti della Repubblica: divertissements sui testi
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno
My PhD thesis, some analytics
Data visualisation over the text of my PhD thesis on language evolution
tech
Python & Antigravity
Python’s antigravity package explored
Some basic tips on using the command line for data work
A list of easy command line commands to facilitate data work
Counting the unique values in Sheets rows with comma-separated items
In a Google Sheet, count the number of times a term appears in rows where one column has a comma-separated list
TensorFlow, creating the training set for object detection
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
Customise your shell for speed with Oh My ZSH!
Make your terminal beautiful and efficient with Oh My ZSH!
A very shallow overview of YOLO and Darknet
Looking at YOLO and Darknet as neural network frameworks for object detection
Getting started with Google Cloud
I’ve learned a bit about Google Cloud by tinkering on it to run a little job, this post outlines the steps and an overview of the platform.
Rallying into D3
Following a path to learn D3 for data visualisation
How I managed to install OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on a macOS
Installing OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on macOS, the ultimate guide
Jupyter goodness
Learning to make the most of Jupyter notebooks
Plotting the actual frequencies in a FreqDist in NLTK
How to plot the real frequency of occurrence of text with NLTK
Interacting with a DynamoDB via boto3
Python for querying a DynamoDB in AWS with boto3
Python for (some) Elasticsearch queries
Using Python for querying Elasticsearch
Break it to get it: class and instance attributes in Python
Exploring the difference between class and instance attributes in Python
Some Matplotlib idiosyncrasies
Some basics on how to use matplotlib for plotting data