Category Archives: data

JOBID generator script

How you organise your computational projects is important. If you’re not  careful you can find yourself with hundreds of computer-hours worth of data,  without being exactly sure which parameters or scripts you used to generate it. One way to keep track of your scripts and your data is with a JOBID number, which you attach… Read More »

Seaborn Python Plotting Library

I’ve recently been looking into python packages that could help improve the appearance of matplotlib – the venerable, go-to plotting library for Python. For quickly plotting some data vanilla matplotlib generally does just fine, but for truly ‘publication-ready’ plots, you’ll probably want to look to one of the more advanced libraries. In this post a… Read More »

Where Were the 5000 Small Business Owners?

Where Were the 5000 Small Business Owners? A bit of a backlash A couple of days ago the Daily Telegraph published a list of 5000 small business owners who signed a letter in support of David Cameron’s Conservative party. Since it’s publication, however, there has been a bit of a backlash, with the letter being… Read More »