Metaflow is one of my favourite R packages. Actually, it’s a Python module, but the R package provides a set of bindings for running R code through Metaflow. Recently I’ve spent a good amount of effort trying to improve the way that R data is translated to the Python side of Metaflow, but I just can’t get it to work.

One of the joys of keeping a personal blog is that I don’t have to justify a post. If I want to hook up 4 Raspberry Pis into a Kubernetes cluster just to monitor the humidity of my living room, then I can.

In case this saves anyone some time, here’s a quick bit of regex and Python code for identifying if a given licence plate is standard or custom (personalised) in a given state.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons kept me sane throughout the first Melbourne COVID lockdown. Now, in lockdown 4, it seems right that I should look back at this cheerful, relaxing game and do some data stuff. I’m going to take the Animal Crossing villagers in the Tidy Tuesday Animal Crossing dataset and combine it with survey data from the Animal Crossing Portal, giving each villager a measure of popularity. I’ll use the Google Cloud Vision API to annotate each of the villager…

I went down a strange path recently, trying to compile binaries of R packages for Linux. I’m not sure why — this area is pretty much covered by the RStudio Package Manager. I’ll leave my Dockerfiles here in case they’re of any use to a future wayward R programmer.