Blog Archive – Lirico

Functional Programming in Scala - Review

Functional Programming

scala

A few months ago I completed the Coursera specialism "Finctional Programming in Sala". I found the experience extremely rewarding and learned a great deal so I thought I'd…

What happens when you turn an iterator inside out?

python

reactivex

category_theory

This post is an extended version of a lightning talk I gave at *PyConUK 2016* on 2016-09-17

What is a dataframe

Data Science

pandas

python

Back when Big Data was a genuinely new concept and Data Scientist's weren't rock stars, the SciPy ecosystem was beginning to mature. It felt as though Python deserved to…

Managing Django Version Migration

python

django

ceda

CEDA was a fairly early adopter of Django, introducing it as the technology for the CMIP5 Questionnaire. Back then we were on Django 1.2 and there have been 3 major releases…

Blogging with IPython-notebook

Meta

ipython

I have a new blogging engine to play with. This time I'm going with Pelican which generates static HTML, making it very easy to redeploy. So far I've been stunned at how…

Example of using esgf-pyclient to plot via OPeNDAP

Data Science

esgf

opendap

First import the required modules and select the CEDA ESGF-index node's search service.

Analysis of replicated CMIP5 datasets

Data Science

esgf

cmip5

This notebook describes the analysis of a snapshot of all replicas in the CMIP5 archive on February 6th 2013. A list of all dataset versions at each of the 3 replicating…

Bringing Git to data archival

Data Science

esgf

cmip5

I am increasingly excited about distributed version control and how it enables easy collaboration between software developers without technical and social barriers such as…