One of the useful features of Origin is its ability to easily fit functions to data. Unfortunatly atan isn’t one of the functions built in to origin. In this guide show you how to make and fit your own Origin atan function. Make and Fit Your Origin atan Function This quick guide shows you how… Read More »
Python is becoming more established for scientific data analysis and processing, but what python instrument control options are there? For me the benchmark instrument control software has to be LabView. It’s incredibly expensive and certainly has it’s quirks, but I’ve found that it can often make interfacing with hardware relatively painless. I’ve recently been exploring… Read More »
Books for Dealing With People I’ve written before about how dealing with people does not necessarily come naturally to people. Just like any other skill we must learn and practise to improve. In that spirit, here are three more books for dealing with people. Hopefully these books will help to give you a framework for… Read More »
Finding the centre of of a polygon can be useful for many geomtrical analysis and processing techniques. This quick guide shows you how to find the centre of a polygon in python. The Centroid The centre of a polygon is also known as its centroid. It the arithmetic mean position of all the points that… Read More »
I’ve been working with the Shapely python package in python. This is a short guide for how to merge polygons in python. This guide is based on “cascaded_union.py” in the shapely examples. Find out how to install shapely in python here. How to Merge Polygons in Python Download the script for this guide here. In… Read More »