We recently did a survey for comments on a particular program. The survey was done through an anonymous Google form, which allowed us to download the list of responses as a CSV file. The question was: How do we display these responses to their intended audience? Sending out a CSV file, or in fact just …
Newtonian Funding
Research funding in the UK is very transparent. In fact you can access details of every RCUK (Research Councils UK) funded project through their online gateway. Like a lot of UK government data the content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated. The Newton Fund is part of the UK's …
Web Scraping YouTube Videos in Python
Web crawling and web scraping are two sides of the same coin. Web scraping is simply extracting information from the internet in an automated fashion. Web crawling is about indexing information on webpages and - normally - using it to access other webpages where the thing you actually want to scrape is located. YouTube is …
Spinning Stars II : Célérité
Gaussian Process Modelling is all very well, but when you've got lots of data points - and potentially lots of hyper-parameters - optimizing the values of those hyper-parameters can be very computationally expensive, i.e. slow... In my previous post I was using GPM to extract the rotation period of stars from Kepler data. For that …
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