1. One year in New York City

    Fri 03 January 2014
    cfarmer

    One year ago today, January 3rd 2014, my wife and I officially moved to New York City. It has flown by extremely fast for both of us, but we’ve managed to enjoy the city and all of the benefits that come with it. Some highlights (in no particular order) include:

    • Starting my own research agenda
    • Skating at Rockefeller Center
    • Seeing Chicago on Broadway
    • Wondering through Manhattan at Christmas time
    • Road-trip to Boston
    • Living in North America again (Europe was wonderful, but its nice to be closer to family)
    • Trip up to Montreal
    • Seeing The Nance on Broadway
    • Staff passes ...

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  2. A quick bookmarklet for off-campus library access

    Tue 17 December 2013
    cfarmer

    I have been doing a fair bit of research off-campus lately, and as usual, have been having trouble accessing research materials (mainly academic publications) from home. Fortunately, Hunter College provides off-campus access to all electronic resources available to Hunter students, faculty and staff via their Library proxy server. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a huge pain to use anything other than the library search facilities (like Google Scholar) through the proxy server*. In fact, when working off-campus, you actually have to preface each URL address to licensed resources with http://proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/login?url= in order ...

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  3. Lectureships (x2) in GeoInformatics at the University of St Andrews

    Tue 03 December 2013
    cfarmer

    Researchers in the Centre for GeoInformatics (CGI) in the School of Geography and Geosciences at the University of St Andrews have been selected for a prestigious award under the Q-Step Quantitative Methods Programme funded by a combination of the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC. This programme will employ two new lecturers to add substantial new courses to the school of Geography and Geosciences’ existing undergraduate curriculum and help deliver a new MSc in GeoInformatics. They are looking for candidates with research interests in each of:

    1. Remote sensing
    2. Spatio-temporal analysis, specialization spatial statistics

    For more information on these two positions please ...

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  4. Describing Variation

    Fri 22 November 2013
    cfarmer

    The 3rd in a series of tutorials on using Python for introductory statistical analysis, this tutorial covers methods for describing data via simple statistical calculations and statistical graphics. As always, the notebook for this tutorial is available here.

    In the 1880s, Sir Francis Galton, one of the pioneers of statistics, collected data on the heights of approximately 900 adult children and their parents in London. Galton was interested in studying the relationship between a full-grown child’s height and his or her mother’s and father’s height. In order to do so, Galton collected height measurements from about 200 ...

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  5. MSc Positions at University of Victoria

    Mon 11 November 2013
    cfarmer

    Two MSc positions are available at the University of Victoria in the Department of Geography‘s Spatial Pattern Analysis and Research (SPAR) Lab. Students will be involved in the development of the thesis topic with potential research areas including web mapping (e.g., bike accidents), mining and mapping social media (people’s hunting activities), spatial environmental modelling, and spatial ecological research.

    Preference will be given to students with experience in GIS, spatial analysis, spatial statistics, programming, and/or statistics. Funding includes a graduate student stipend, as well as, support through teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and internal fellowships. Students can anticipate ...

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  6. Data: Cases, Variables, Samples

    Sat 09 November 2013
    cfarmer

    The second in a series of tutorials on using Python for introductory statistical analysis, this tutorial covers data, including cases, variables, samples, and a whole lot more. As always, the iPython Notebook associated with this tutorial is available here on github.

    Data used in statistical modeling are usually organized into tables, often created using spreadsheet software. Most people presume that the same software used to create a table of data should be used to display and analyze it. This is part of the reason for the popularity of spreadsheet programs such as ‘Excel’ and ‘Google Spreadsheets’.

    For serious statistical work ...

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  7. A Fresh Approach using Python: Introduction

    Fri 01 November 2013
    cfarmer

    Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials on using Python for introductory statistical analysis. As I put more of these tutorials online, you should be able to access them easily by clicking or searching for the relevant category: “Statistical Modeling for Python”.

    This series of tutorials is based on the ‘Computational Technique’ sections of each chapter from ‘Statistical Modeling: A Fresh Approach (2nd Edition)’. The goal of this series of tutorials is to show how all of the R analysis and commands used in the book can be done just as easily using the Python programming language. This ...

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  8. ftools is dead… long live ftools!

    Tue 15 October 2013
    cfarmer

    I recently decided to drop ftools.ca, since I hadn’t updated it in a very long time, and it was really just costing me money to keep a ‘dead’ website up and running. Additionally, with the new QGIS plugin infrastructure, hosting my own plugins (the website’s primary purpose) was no longer needed. The site has served me well for many years, and really helped get fTools (the plugin) into the QGIS core codebase. The website has served its purpose, and now that I have very little involvement with fTools and the QGIS Processing Toolbox that is poised to replace it, I’m moving on: ftools.ca is dead, long live ftools.ca!

    However, now that QGIS 2.0 has rolled out, it seems that at least one part of ftools.ca is missed: my old cartogram plugin. If I have some spare time, I’ll try to update the plugin to the latest and greatest QGIS 2.0 standards and upload it to the new QGIS plugins system. In the mean time, for those out there who would like to use it right away, you can get the original code from here or grab it from github. In fact, if someone is able and willing, they can grab the code from github, update it for QGIS 2.0, and submit a pull request which I will (more than likely) happily accept.

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