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Creating a Customised Covid Dashboard

Why you should consider creating your own personalised COVID-19 dashboard and how to do it in Microsoft Power BI

Posted on July 22, 2021

With the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 Delta strain in Australia and lockdowns affecting more than half the population, tuning into updates from state premiers and reviewing the state health COVID dashboard has become a daily ritual for many. [Read More]

Uncovering the hidden beauty & unrealised benefits of fungi

Posted on March 1, 2021

Hiking in the Minnamurra Rainforest recently after a week of inclement weather, one did not have to look far off the elevated walkway to see a wide assortment of fungi and lichen. Pushing out of moist soil or out of cracks in bark & rotting logs, my daughters and I... [Read More]

Tags: fungi, Minnamurra, plants, biodiversity, research

Plant Recommendation Systems With Tensorflow

Using Machine Learning to Encourage Greater Biodiversity in Species Selection

Posted on February 15, 2021

When you make decisions about what to watch as you open YouTube in your lunch break or Netflix in the evening, what to buy from Amazon or eBay or what to read as you scroll through your news feed, you are guided by machine learning-based recommendation systems that are ubiquitous... [Read More]

Tags: data science visualization plants biodiversity tensorflow

It's Getting Hotter in Here

Exploring & Visualising Australian Historical Temperature Data in Pandas

Posted on February 8, 2021

After enduring the hottest Australian summer on record in 2019/20 sheltered inside with air-con and air purifier running as large parts of my home state of New South Wales burned, I decided to run some exploratory analysis on the Bureau of Meteorology’s fantastic ACORN-SAT 2.1 database. The Australian Climate Observations... [Read More]

Tags: data science visualization climate change maps pandas

Paths into Data Science

Weighing up the benefits of traditional and online courses in the age of COVID

Posted on February 1, 2021

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Tags: data science university MOOC online study ANU Coursera Google