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Are they taking the p…", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/nice-graphic-are-they-taking-the-p/", "published_at": "2017-02-04T12:14:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdde-8321-71f1-a4ea-81392936054d", "title": "The real meaning of spurious correlations", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/the-real-meaning-of-spurious-correlations/", "published_at": "2017-02-02T23:08:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdde-8321-71f1-a4ea-8139294d99ee", "title": "Taking steps (in XML)", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/taking-steps-in-xml/", "published_at": "2017-02-01T11:41:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdde-8321-71f1-a4ea-81392a07dccf", "title": "A Change of Direction", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/a-change-of-direction/", "published_at": "2017-01-01T12:17:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdde-8321-71f1-a4ea-81392a88acb1", "title": "Evidence for a limit to effective peer review", "url": 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"https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/lets-briefly-revisit-the-nobel-api/", "published_at": "2016-10-09T09:05:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-16c3-73b2-90f4-ecc1536c3af2", "title": "Data corruption using Excel: 12+ years and counting", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/data-corruption-using-excel-12-years-and-counting/", "published_at": "2016-08-25T01:55:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-16c3-73b2-90f4-ecc153d144d8", "title": "Hiatus, indefinite", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/hiatus-indefinite/", "published_at": "2016-05-04T11:47:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-16c3-73b2-90f4-ecc154c3894a", "title": "This blog in 2015", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/this-blog-in-2015/", "published_at": "2015-12-29T22:25:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-16c3-73b2-90f4-ecc15533818e", "title": "Variants + Spark = VariantSpark", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/variants-spark-variantspark/", "published_at": "2015-12-29T05:42:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-16c3-73b2-90f4-ecc155d88a92", "title": "Novelty: an update", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/novelty-an-update/", "published_at": "2015-10-21T08:00:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-16c3-73b2-90f4-ecc156725cff", "title": "R and the Nobel Prize API", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/r-and-the-nobel-prize-api/", "published_at": "2015-10-20T09:00:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-16c3-73b2-90f4-ecc1574f5c27", "title": "Searching for duplicate resource names in PMC article titles", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/searching-for-duplicate-resource-names-in-pmc-article-titles/", "published_at": "2015-09-16T11:30:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-8786-70d9-bbdf-1119f6ef5926", "title": "Virus hosts from NCBI taxonomy: now at Github", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/virus-hosts-from-ncbi-taxonomy-now-at-github/", "published_at": "2015-06-08T22:32:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-8786-70d9-bbdf-1119f7b429ec", "title": "Virus hosts from NCBI Taxonomy web pages", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/virus-hosts-from-ncbi-taxonomy-web-pages/", "published_at": "2015-06-02T11:55:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-8786-70d9-bbdf-1119f8963b3b", "title": "Analysis of gene expression timecourse data using maSigPro", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/analysis-of-gene-expression-timecourse-data-using-masigpro/", "published_at": "2015-05-29T05:08:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-8786-70d9-bbdf-1119f8c641d4", "title": "Searching for the Steamer retroelement in the ocean metagenome", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/searching-for-the-steamer-retroelement-in-the-ocean-metagenome/", "published_at": "2015-05-25T23:18:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-8786-70d9-bbdf-1119f8d82633", "title": "Some basics of biomaRt", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/some-basics-of-biomart/", "published_at": "2015-04-28T03:34:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-8786-70d9-bbdf-1119f8ebd9f6", "title": "R 3.1 -> 3.2 upgrade notes", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/r-3-1-3-2-upgrade-notes/", "published_at": "2015-04-20T00:17:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-8786-70d9-bbdf-1119f91afd35", "title": "Project Tycho, ggplot2 and the shameless stealing of blog ideas", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/project-tycho-ggplot2-and-the-shameless-stealing-of-blog-ideas/", "published_at": "2015-04-14T14:19:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-8786-70d9-bbdf-1119f970a3e8", "title": "Exploring the NCBI taxonomy database using Entrez Direct", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/exploring-the-ncbi-taxonomy-database-using-entrez-direct/", "published_at": "2015-04-01T23:13:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-8786-70d9-bbdf-1119fa2e3635", "title": "Configuring the R BatchJobs package for Torque batch queues", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/configuring-the-r-batchjobs-package-for-torque-batch-queues/", "published_at": "2015-04-01T03:45:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-8786-70d9-bbdf-1119fa686fca", "title": "Please read “It’s time to reboot bioinformatics education”", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/please-read-its-time-to-reboot-bioinformatics-education/", "published_at": "2015-03-24T00:41:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde5-fe18-7305-b0df-be1a18f750a7", "title": "PubMed retraction reporting update", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/pubmed-retraction-reporting-update/", "published_at": "2015-03-23T23:58:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde5-fe18-7305-b0df-be1a193ee676", "title": "PMRetract: PubMed retraction reporting rewritten as an interactive RMarkdown document", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/pmretract-pubmed-retraction-reporting-rewritten-as-an-interactive-rmarkdown-document/", "published_at": "2015-03-23T02:27:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde5-fe18-7305-b0df-be1a1a1f0e03", "title": "Just how many retracted articles are there in PubMed anyway?", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/just-how-many-retracted-articles-are-there-in-pubmed-anyway/", "published_at": "2015-03-20T01:22:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde5-fe18-7305-b0df-be1a1a80b940", "title": "From PMID to BibTeX via BioRuby", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/from-pmid-to-bibtex-via-bioruby/", "published_at": "2015-03-18T03:59:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde5-fe18-7305-b0df-be1a1a8da5d3", "title": "Note to journals: “methodologically sound” applies to figures too", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/note-to-journals-methodologically-sound-applies-to-figures-too/", "published_at": "2015-03-17T21:21:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde5-fe18-7305-b0df-be1a1ab74bf7", "title": "Some brief thoughts on the end of FriendFeed", "url": "https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/some-brief-thoughts-on-the-end-of-friendfeed/", 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2026

What’s changed?original ↗
5 Apr 2026
Creating custom (non-Font Awesome) icons for a Jekyll-based websiteoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2026
Directional markers in R/leafletoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2026

2025

Brief thoughts on: iNaturalistoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2025
Using R/anomalize to identify delays in games of Australian Rules footballoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2025
Brief thoughts on: the slow death of Twitteroriginal ↗
11 Nov 2025
Brief thoughts on: the new Australian Bureau of Meteorology websiteoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2025
Still here. Still writing occasional posts for a tiny audience.original ↗
2 Oct 2025

2024

Pattern recognition in Google Mapsoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2024
Data discovery: seasonal speedoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2024

2023

Gene names, data corruption and Excel: the final chapter?original ↗
27 Oct 2023
Price’s Protein Puzzle: 2023 updateoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2023
The “curse of the bye” revisitedoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2023
Has your knowledge stopped updating?original ↗
27 Jan 2023

2022

Editing metadata in trail camera images using R, magick and exiftooloriginal ↗
25 Oct 2022
Using R to detect the pressure wave from the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption in personal weather station dataoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2022
Using R/fitzRoy to ask: how many times a V/AFL team with the same lineup has played together?original ↗
28 Mar 2022

2021

Enhancement of old colour photographs using Generative Adversarial Networksoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2021
Gene names, data corruption and Excel: a 2021 updateoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2021
How I resurrected my ancient PhD thesis using R/bookdown (and some other tools)original ↗
22 Jul 2021
Florence Nightingale’s “rose charts” (and others) in ggplot2original ↗
16 Mar 2021

2019

When your tools are broken, just change the dataoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2019
Debuting in a VFL/AFL Grand Final is rareoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2019
Extracting Sydney transport data from Twitteroriginal ↗
10 Sept 2019
Twitter coverage of the useR! 2019 conferenceoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2019
Can random forest provide insights into how yeast grows?original ↗
26 Jun 2019
Geelong and the curse of the byeoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2019
Is your phone giving you horns?original ↗
21 Jun 2019
Mapping the Vikings using Roriginal ↗
3 Apr 2019
How long since your team scored 100+ points? This blog’s first foray into the fitzRoy R packageoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2019
This is not normal(ised)original ↗
11 Mar 2019
Using parameters in Rmarkdownoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2019
Some thoughts on my recent Twitter breakoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2019
An absolute beginner’s guide to creating data frames for a Stack Overflow [r] questionoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2019
Price’s Protein Puzzle: 2019 updateoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2019

2018

Extracting data from news articles: Australian pollution by postcodeoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2018
Using OSX? Compiling an R package from source? Issues with ‘-fopenmp’? Try this.original ↗
18 Nov 2018
We do not wish to shareoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2018
Just use a scatterplot. Also, Sydney sprawls.original ↗
18 Jul 2018
Using leaflet, just becauseoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2018
Twitter coverage of the useR! 2018 conferenceoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2018
Idle thoughts lead to R internals: how to count function argumentsoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2018
PubMed retractions report has movedoriginal ↗
23 May 2018
50% bananasoriginal ↗
9 May 2018
Moving from RPubs to Github documentsoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2018
Farewell then, PubMed Commonsoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2018

2017

Twitter coverage of the Australian Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Society Conference 2017original ↗
20 Nov 2017
Mapping data using R and leafletoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2017
XML parsing made easy: is that podcast getting longer?original ↗
12 Oct 2017
Feels like a dry winter – but what does the data say?original ↗
11 Oct 2017
Infographic-style charts using the R waffle packageoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2017
Years as coloured barsoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2017
To do analysis stufforiginal ↗
2 Aug 2017
Twitter Coverage of the ISMB/ECCB Conference 2017original ↗
2 Aug 2017
Twitter Coverage of the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference 2017original ↗
25 Jul 2017
Hacking Highcharter: observations per group in boxplotsoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2017
Chart golf: the “demographic tsunami”original ↗
21 Jul 2017
Visualising Twitter coverage of recent bioinformatics conferencesoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2017
An update to the nhmrcData R packageoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2017
The nhmrcData package: NHMRC funding outcomes data made tidyoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2017
HTML vignettes crashing your RStudio? This may be the reasonoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2017
Twitter Coverage of the Lorne Genome Conference 2017original ↗
16 Feb 2017
On the passing of Hans Roslingoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2017
Hyetographs, hydrographs and highcharteroriginal ↗
6 Feb 2017
Nice graphic? Are they taking the p…original ↗
4 Feb 2017
The real meaning of spurious correlationsoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2017
Taking steps (in XML)original ↗
1 Feb 2017
A Change of Directionoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2017

2016

Evidence for a limit to effective peer revieworiginal ↗
18 Dec 2016
An Analysis of Contributions to PubMed Commonsoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2016
Putting data on maps using R: easier than everoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2016
The y-axis: to zero or not to zerooriginal ↗
20 Nov 2016
Let’s (briefly) revisit the Nobel APIoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2016
Data corruption using Excel: 12+ years and countingoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2016
Hiatus, indefiniteoriginal ↗
4 May 2016

2015

This blog in 2015original ↗
29 Dec 2015
Variants + Spark = VariantSparkoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2015
Novelty: an updateoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2015
R and the Nobel Prize APIoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2015
Searching for duplicate resource names in PMC article titlesoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2015
Virus hosts from NCBI taxonomy: now at Githuboriginal ↗
8 Jun 2015
Virus hosts from NCBI Taxonomy web pagesoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2015
Analysis of gene expression timecourse data using maSigProoriginal ↗
29 May 2015
Searching for the Steamer retroelement in the ocean metagenomeoriginal ↗
25 May 2015
Some basics of biomaRtoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2015
R 3.1 -> 3.2 upgrade notesoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2015
Project Tycho, ggplot2 and the shameless stealing of blog ideasoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2015
Exploring the NCBI taxonomy database using Entrez Directoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2015
Configuring the R BatchJobs package for Torque batch queuesoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2015
Please read “It’s time to reboot bioinformatics education”original ↗
24 Mar 2015
PubMed retraction reporting updateoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2015
PMRetract: PubMed retraction reporting rewritten as an interactive RMarkdown documentoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2015
Just how many retracted articles are there in PubMed anyway?original ↗
20 Mar 2015
From PMID to BibTeX via BioRubyoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2015
Note to journals: “methodologically sound” applies to figures toooriginal ↗
17 Mar 2015
Some brief thoughts on the end of FriendFeedoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2015
Make prettier documents by reusing chunks in RMarkdownoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2015
Academic Karma: a case study in how not to use open dataoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2015
Presentations online for Bioinformatics FOAM 2015original ↗
9 Feb 2015
Better living through informatics: in search of koalasoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2015
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