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HISCO lookup

This is a post for me to come back to as a refrence. I always need to look up HISCO groups, and I have scraped and stored this information in this github repo but it would…

DRAFT: Analysis for a Solar PV & Battery System (South Africa)

I asked GPT-4.5 with deep research to investigate a solar system for me, in order to test its capabilities, inspired by a post by Timothy B. Lee titled in a somewhat…

Claude 3.7: React and Reactions

One of the best parts of my work as a PhD student is teaching. In a course on regional development in Lund, we cover data visualization and map-making. Both of these are an…

Transit Trek

For a long time, I have had an idea simmering in the back of my mind: could I get a large language model to collect transit data for European airports without me spending…

NeverTooSmall Couch Colours

I really enjoy watching the YouTube channel NeverTooSmall, which showcases cleverly designed small spaces from around the world.

A modern question and answer site: SCB Users Group

A post about creating a question and answer site for users of Statistics Sweden data

Geocoding: two ways

A post about geocoding place names using R and python to access the OSM and Google Maps geocoding APIs.

Transforming National Budget Documents into Queryable Knowledge

A post about automating the data retrieval process from PDF documents using LangChain and the OpenAI API.

The Economics of Instant Hot Water: Quooker vs Kettle

How long will it take for an instant hot water tap to save some money?

Building a YouTube Video Transcript Summarizer (with some help)

A post on what it means to be a data scientist in the age of such capable generative AI.

ChatGPT as translator and text wizard

A post showing how ChatGPT can be used to create structred data from text.

Map projections in R

A post on how to change projections for mapping and save out the new shapefiles.

Electricity generation per capita

A post on electricity generation per capita across the world since 2000.

Our World In Data choropleth

A post on how recreate the Our World In Data characteristic choropleth in R.

ChatGPT cooks me dinner

🍲 Master the kitchen like a pro with the help of ChatGPT! 🍴 I tried it out and the results will blow your mind! 🤯 Find out what happened when I asked a language model for recipe ideas and cooking instructions. 😲 You won’t believe how delicious my Gammon and Vegetable Stew with Mint turned out! 🍽️ Don’t miss out on this must-read blog post! 👀

ChatGPT fills in for me as a blog post author

I ask ChatGPT to write a blog post in the same manner as one I wrote last week. The results will amaze you!

Coefficient plots in `ggplot`

Drawing coefficient plots in R and ggplot.

LinkedIn style tables for personal websites

A post on how to us the {gt} table package to make tables for the about page of a pesonal website or blog.

Programmatically generate tabs in Rmarkdown

A walk-though for writing code that writes it’s own code.

Flavours of cocoa

An exploration of chocolate bar reviews

R vs Python? R & Python!

Mining the twitter archive of Fathom Data

Students Speak

Text analysis of students’ diary entries during the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa

Resources for Learning R and Mastering ggplot

A collection of videos and resources to get you started using R and the tidyverse for exploratory data analysis and visualization.

Mapping Sweden’s Regional GDP

Visualizing the relationship between population and regional GDP share in 1571, based on data from Enflo and Missiaia (2018).

Shipping and Scraping - Part 1 in a Series on Shipping

In this post I walk through scraping data on cargo ships from Wikipedia as part of a series on shipping. I make use of R, the rvest package for webscraping and the SelectorGadget tool for CSS selection.