One of the benefits of R having many ways to do the same thing is that quite often any bottlenecks can be addressed by using a different library or approach. We've tried to standardise on dplyr which has definitely helped performance and transferability/understanding of code.
Not a direct answer, sorry, but I'd make sure your team is familiar with profiling/performance measurement before starting to think about approaches adv-r.hadley.nz/perf-measure...
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Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has launched a trial into electric vehicle charging solutions for across pavements for homes without access to off-street parking.
Read more here: www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/news/kimmins...
Absolutely. It's not just that this is a huge digital delivery, it's that it's a whole new service model regardless of the digital bit.
Big Q for me on digital ID is how will it work for the common travel area with Ireland. Plenty of Irish citizens who work in the UK, use health services in NI, plus those in NI who wouldn't consider themselves UK citizens. All are allowed to move and work freely at the moment.
£4.3M invested per job, 'up to' doing some heavy lifting as well there
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
Mauretania was coal fired until the early 1920s, its progress across the ocean was dependent on 350 crew members shovelling coal in shifts. The 1000 tonnes of coal consumed each day produced roughly 6x the per-passenger carbon emissions of a modern transatlantic flight (4x after conversion to oil).
Transatlantic passenger liner speed records Fastest crossing times reduced from 13 days in 1839 to 3.5 days in 1952 Chart showing the decline in crossing times, for further details see the wikipedia page for Blue Riband.
The Mauretania exhibit at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle led me to look at the fastest average Atlantic crossings for passenger liners. I couldn’t find a visualisation of the crossing times so made 📊 using Flourish: flo.uri.sh/visualisatio... #dataviz
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White Stork sitting on a lamppost in Belfast. Yes, really.
Only better outcome would be that Ned/Stan migrates back next year with a special friend. Looks lonely up on his lamppost of an evening.
I didn't know about this until now, and was happier in those simpler times
Ordnance survey document referring to the 1975 Mapping Agreement on the Irish Grid to 'address the problem of large scale maps meeting at the border'.
NI using the Irish Grid makes a lot of sense for planning/building/mapping in border areas.
I don't like the idea of 'the problem of large scale maps meeting at the border', from www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/pr...
Case really well made, I'm sure this will happen in time in GB. I'd love to see the case made for NI, at the moment despite UK in the title it's very much a GB paper.
The government alert for the red weather warning in UK and NI. Three paragraphs of text with an OK button.
Bizarre UX on the Android government emergency alert for storm Éowyn in NI. Frantically press OK to stop the siren and the text immediately disappears. It can then only be found in the depths of the notification settings.
Great day at #ukgc25, well worth the journey over and kudos to the organisers and volunteers on a well run and enjoyable event. My brain is overfull from the excellent discussions.
Oof. Very early start to get from Belfast to London for my first #ukgc25. Very much looking forward to it.
Data extracted from Google Trends (trends.google.com/trends/explo...) using pytrends (github.com/GeneralMills...). Visualised with Flourish (public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...).
Multi-line graph showing Google search trends for 'gym near me'. Shows a peak in the last week of each of each year, other than 2020 and 2021. The 2021 peak is in the 14th week of the year.
A New Year visualisation of Google search trends for 'gym near me' shows, unsurprisingly, that the New Year week is the most popular time of year for people looking for a gym in the UK. The only exception is 2021 when the peak was delayed until lockdown ended.
Hey @github.com users on @bsky.app, did you know you can get a github.io handle in a few steps?
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Ancient post lives here now, doing some housekeeping after importing old posts from the other place pbarber.github.io/codeandnumbe...
And a nice fade to/from openstreetmap and the old map of the Ormeau Rd/Ballynafeigh area
The original link to the map of Ormeau is: mapwarper.net/maps/52959#P...
One for the non-squeamish living in close proximity to school age children: a rough analysis of the annual/seasonal peaks in head lice and nits.
public.flourish.studio/story/2630542
'Something between an Orthodox funeral mass and a Nirvana gig' Musician Hazlett Keers, poet John Brown, guitarist @paulblablah and photographer/poet James Hughes will be performing "Sailortown Requiem" on Friday 2nd June at 8pm. £7.50 on door, proceeds to @StJoesBelfast.
The rivers, lakes and streams of Ireland, coloured by river basin, combining detailed mapping from north and south of the border. Inspired by @PythonMaps, data from http://hydrosheds.org @OrdnanceIreland, @daera_ni, @EPAIreland, visuals in http://altair-viz.github.io
Very pleased that the bot has found itself a new dataset. twitter.com/ni_covid19_data/status/1...
