The UK parliament has a bunch of different committees who are tasked with conducting inquiries and producing reports about a range of different topics. The individual inquiries normally have a fixed duration and they hear evidence from a range of individuals known as witnesses. The UK parliament website maintains a list of open inquiries that …
On the Buses
I've started a little project to look at availability of public transport across Manchester. To keep things easy to follow I'm going to split up the different elements of the project between blog posts. First off, I want to know all the bus routes in Greater Manchester and I want to know which ones go …
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 …
Night at the Museum II: OCR in Python
Wherein I fail to make Python read medieval Chinese calligraphy correctly, but I learn a lot about Chinese calligraphy and optical character recognition. The Plan It seems sensible that if we can read Chinese in our Jupyter notebook, we should try to translate the writing that's actually on the National Palace Museum exhibits and not …
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