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Tech news 12: Simple reproductibility in R

reproducibility
R
technews
experience
Tech News #12? It’s been a year and we are arriving at the end of a cycle as tech news #13 is not planned. It’s been a pleasure writing these 12 newsletters and thinking…
Jul 19, 2024

 

Tech news 11: Facilitating… admin tasks

experience
R
package
technews
Filling in PDF forms and sending personalised emails
May 24, 2024

Tech news 10: Pipes

experience
R
package
technews
Pipes are present is many languages and they allow passing objects from one function to another without having to create an intermediary object and keeping a logical and…
Apr 26, 2024

Tech news 9: Testing data

experience
R
package
technews
Looking inside the data you receive and produce is an absolute necessity but if you could have a second pair of eyes able to scan millions of rows in fractions of seconds…
Mar 15, 2024

Saving the camera settings of a shot in the exif data of the scans

photography
weekend-project
experience
R
package
For decades (centuries?) photographers have been writing their camera settings for each shot on a notebook to learn and train their eye, to organise their shots or because…
Feb 26, 2024

Tech news 8: Sharing code through your own R package

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R
package
technews
This month, I thought of writing a little bit about sharing code with each other.
Feb 16, 2024

Tech news 7: tidymodels

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R
package
technews
This week’s email is about tidymodels.
Jan 26, 2024

 

How I moved the website to albansagouis.com

experience
webdev
The website was hosted for free by github at the address albansagouis.github.io, thank you GitHub, but I thought a more personal address would be nice and it would be a good…
Jan 17, 2024

Building the website online or locally?

experience
webdev
A short blogpost about the process I just followed to switch my website online building + publishing process to a more local, more free and faster workflow.
Jan 13, 2024

Choosing a new 35mm analog camera

photography
gear
The Nikon FA checked quite a lot of my criteria and it’s among the cheapest!
Jan 13, 2024

My discovery of analog photography

photography
gear
I began using digital cameras a long time ago without trying to understand the technicalities of it until I got serious about bird photography. Then I really got into the…
Jan 11, 2024

 

How I created this website

experience
webdev
This is my first blog article on this website, well first blog article ever I guess. And it’s about the process I followed to build it. I downloaded the minimal mistake repo…
Jan 10, 2024

Tech news 6: Creating animated figures

experience
R
package
technews
visualisation
This week, some fun with animated figures. We send each other gifs but they rarely come to mind when it comes to showing scientific processes or results. They are actually…
Dec 19, 2023

Tech news 5: Working with data files too large for memory

experience
R
data.table
spatial
dplyr
package
reproducibility
technews
Today, I’d like to discuss data we might need that are larger than memory, or fit in memory but everything freezes…
Nov 23, 2023

Tech news 4: Reporting your figures and model results in your manuscript

experience
R
package
reproducibility
technews
This month the audience is increasing, besides the Biodiversity Synthesis group, the iCode Coding Club mailing list will receive this email (and the next).
Oct 20, 2023

 

Tech news 3: Building a free website easy

experience
webdev
technews
This month, I thought of giving you some basic info on how to build a website the easy way to have a personal space where to advertise yourself or your current project.…
Sep 22, 2023

Tech news 2: Publishing code

reproducibility
R
package
technews
experience
Disclaimer: this blog post is my opinion, at the time of writing, and might not reflect the opinion of my employer, or mine today.
Aug 18, 2023

Tech news 1: Spatial packages

GIS
R
reproducibility
renv
package
technews
There is important news I want to share with you and I thought I could make this a regular thing so every third Friday of the month, I’ll send news that I think are useful…
Jul 21, 2023
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