Publications by John MacKintosh
What song lyric sentiment analysis doesn’t tell you
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Inverness street maps
Taras Kaduk produced a beautiful street map here and I decided to try it, but for Inverness. Initially I followed his code very faithfully, and produced a nice plot, but upon uploading the image to GitHub, and seeing it rendered against a dark background, I decided to try another version with {ggdark}. These are quite large images, so I am just g...
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Separate SQL
I did a tweet earlier which was slightly less nonsense than usual. Shocker, I know. I don’t think the idea of having SQL files being kept separate, rather than having a SQL query either embedded or called within an R script, is that controversial. But some folk clearly have not thought to try it before. So, in R terms, rather than having a con...
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Getting to know Julia
I thought I’d try Julia out and see how far I could get with nothing but Google on my side. I’ve had it installed for a while, but never really done anything with it. My aims for this exercise were : download some open data wrangle it, or at least do some sort of manipulation on it plot it I’ve used the daily Covid-19 statistics provided...
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