Month: January 2017
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Countdown to Star Trek: Discovery: ??? days to go
Today’s [news](http://www.polygon.com/2017/1/18/14312680/star-trek-discovery-delayed) has two parts: Star Trek: Discovery, CBS’ upcoming addition to the long running sci-fi series, has been delayed again. There’s now no release date for the show beyond ‘when it’s ready’. And then: CBS confirmed today that James Frain would play Spock’s father. (I’ll leave aside that when Mark Lenard portrayed the 2260s…
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Pretty Mapping of Australia using R
I’ve recently been experimenting with Data Visualisation in R. As part of that I’ve put together a little bit of (probably error ridden and redundant) code to help mapping of Australia. First, my code is built on a foundation from [Luke’s guide to building maps of Australia in R](http://lukesingham.com/map-of-australia-using-osm-psma-and-shiny/), and [this guide to making pretty…