How To Open A Command Prompt In A Folder It can often be useful to be able to open a command prompt in windows. This post will show you how to start a command prompt in a target folder, so to avoid...

How to Create a Linked Axis in Origin Right click on your graph to bring up the ‘layer management’ dialogue. origin linked axis - layer managements ...

How to Create Subplots in Origin Subplots can be  a useful way to display data clearly. In this post I show you how to use Origin to plot data as subplots. This guide was made using Origin 8, but I...

ggplot for Python The ggplot library for python unlocks much of the philosophy and pretty graphics of ggplot2 for R. Try it out and make your data look nicer. Bringing ggplot to Python One of the ‘...

Pizza Price Comparison - Where Should You Buy Your Pizza? Not sure where to buy a pizza from for yourself or a group? Want to make sure you get the best value for money? Use this pizza price compar...

The siunitx Latex Package When you’re writing your thesis or dissertation it can be important to be consistent with how you typeset them. The siunitx Latex package helps you typeset units consisten...

Python Pandas for Physics The Pandas package brings advanced data structures and data analysis tools to python. It was initially concieved for use in the world of finance, but can it be of any use ...

Europe World War 2 Shapefiles After spending some time searching World War 2 shapefiles for Europe, I’ve finally found some. This collection of shapefiles from the Stanford Spatial History Project ...

Export L-Edit Config Settings L-Edit is a piece of powerful layout design software. As you use it you will probably make changes to the configuration, such as keyboard shortcuts and other settings....

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