This post looks at how to build a simple classification model with the python machine learning library scikit-learn. Building a simple classification model is fairly easy with sci-kit learn, and th...

Vagrant is a tool for managing virtual machines. By combining vagrant with git (and shared git repositories like github or bitbucket) it is possible to share machine configurations. This post explo...

Vagrant is a command line tool for managing virtual machines. Vagrant commands are generally quite sensible and often a guess at what the command might be gives the rights of others you answer, but...

Turning a sequence of images into a video can be useful for creating stop-frame movies, scientific animations, and simple slide shows. This post shows you how you can use the free command line tool...

Vagrant is able to provision its virtual machines in a number of ways, including using the ‘ansible’ automation tool. This post looks at vagrant ansible provision and a simple example of how it cou...

Once you have installed OOMMF, and ran some simulations, you will at some point probably want to produce some images of your simulation outputs. It’s not obvious how to do this, so this post explai...

Git is a versioning control software which helps keep track of changes to plain text files. The popularity of git has been helped by the existence of products and services like Gitlab and Github wh...

Vagrant is a tool for quickly creating and starting virtual machines. One of the powerful features of vagrant is its ability to ‘provision’ the virtual machines it creates. Provisioning involves co...

Phonetic algorithms assist in comparing and matching words by their pronunciation, rather than just their spelling. Early phonetic algorithms were introduced to help analyse US census data. Phoneti...

Machine learning and rules-based systems are widely used to make inferences from data. The two approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, and it is useful to have a grasp of both. Although not...