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Low Poly Fish

LowPoly Fish: UK Freshwater Species

Posted on 8th September 201910th September 2019 by meiotic

I’ve recently been working on amalgamating as much freshwater fish data as possible, and ended up with a dataset with 350,000+ individual fish records. An amazing dataset, and just a subset – in this case,

Tagged fish, lakes, research, rivers, UK Leave a comment
The Lochs of Assynt

RMarkdown Fun!

Posted on 5th September 201825th January 2019 by meiotic

I recently went to an interesting EdinbR talk on RMarkdown and the workflow available via R Studio and its products. I’d not used any markdown before but had seen its use in documentation, and this

Tagged html, lakes, maps, markdown, R, research, rmarkdown, scotland Leave a comment

Name That Lake!

Posted on 26th February 201618th January 2017 by meiotic

Two things coincided this week. The imminent launch of our new UK Lakes Portal illuminated how few lakes we have recorded names for, whilst a visiting work experience student was needing something to do… It

Tagged GIS, lakes, maps, research 2 Comments

 

 

I'm Phil. I live & work in Edinburgh, Scotland. I spend my work time being an Environmental Data Scientist and tweeting about @ScienceAndMaps. I like to cut loose in the Hebrides and am trying to learn the lingo too. I recently passed on the mantle of running the Southside Whisky Club, although I still dabble in the odd whisky expirent with Maltiply and tweet occasionally there too. My research can be further explored on my Research Gate & GitHub, with more visual stuff running on my open source geospatial server, Contours. I carved a spoon and I liked it.