Software Carpentry is a non-profit organisation that teaches computing, coding and programming skills to researchers using face-to-face and online courses. I’ve found Software Carpentry to be very useful throughout my computing career and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to gain a good understanding of computing principles. Software Carpentry Not Software Engineering The term… Read More »
SPARQL is a semantic query language for databases, often used to explore and retrieve data from public repositories. Useful as it is, if you’re not familiar with SPARQL, it can take a while to get used to. After a while of hunting around I found this good SPARQL tutorial series from Youtube user Dr Noureddin… Read More »
In this post I show you how you can combine SPARQL – a semantic query language for databases, and Excel – Microsoft’s ubiquitous spreadsheet software, to do an Excel SPARQL import. Excel is a commonly used tool for data science and data analysis. This being the case I was interested to know if there was… Read More »
In this post I show you how to extend the plot range of the fitted function in Origin, beyond that of your initial data. Origin makes it easy to fit to your data, but how to extend the fit beyond the range of the original data isn’t obvious. Follow the steps below to find out… Read More »
How recent are the references in your thesis or dissertation? Have you only cited papers from the last few years? Or have you gone back to find dozens of pre-war publications? I thought it would be interesting to find out, so I made a python script to plot the publications in your thesis. In my… Read More »