Time Team was a TV series which involved a team of archaeologists, surveyors, artists and other specialists spending three days to investigate an archaeological site. Episodes were mainly focused o...

Within Wordpress it is possible to export all historic posts as an XML file. This XML file is a little unwieldy, but it is possible to parse the Wordpress post export with python. This post shows h...

This post shows you how to make a python dashboard using dash. Dash combines the plotly plotting library with the flask server to host the dashboard. Python Dashboard with Dash Dash is a powerful, ...

Fake data can be invaluable for testing or demonstrating behaviour without using live, production data. This lets you protect your production data or help you get started when you don’t yet have a ...

Wikimedia has an API which lets you compare Wikipedia pages, and in some cases modify pages and information within the Wikimedia group. The main page for all Wikimedia API information is here. In ...

A Simple Django Web App Django is a popular web framework for python. Like other web frameworks, the purpose of Django is to help you build websites without the challenge of building everything fro...

Markov chains are a way of stochastically modelling a series of events where the outcome probability of an event depends only only on the event that preceded it. This post gives an overview of some...

Monto Carlo simulation is a technique for approximating future behaviour based on randomly sampled numbers. By sampling from different probability distributions it is possible to use Monte Carlo si...

Monte Carlo integration uses random numbers to approximate the solutions to integrals. While not as sophisticated as some other numerical integration techniques, Monte Carlo integration is still a ...

Confidence intervals are the range often provided alongside other statistics. As their name suggests, they somehow convey a degree of uncertainty in the statistic quoted, but what actually are conf...