Geopandas is an extension to the powerful Pandas library for Python that adds support for geographic data, including reading and writing ESRI shapefiles, which are one of the most common formats for vector geometry with attribute […]
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When processing time series in Octave, you probably have timestamps to deal with. I recently had data with timestamps formatted like “25-9-2022 19:17”. Reading data like this from a file can be done with the textscan […]
As I considered my previous backpack too heavy, I decided to go looking for a new one – the challenge being that there are countless possibilities. My list of requirements was relatively short: Space for a […]
Here are a couple of Windows tools that I find extremely useful. WinMerge Have you ever tried to manually find the differences between two text files, such as different versions of a piece of code or […]
I’ve long worked without a code versioning system – mostly because I usually work on a project alone. For a couple of years now I’ve regularly synced most of my code to Google Drive as backup […]
I’m a bit of a backpack aficionado – not that I own many, but I much prefer them over other types of bags, and always do quite a bit of research before buying one. I couple […]
I’m probably not the only one who, when working from home, works at the kitchen or dinner table instead of a dedicated desk. By using only your laptop screen, you sacrifice quite a bit of screen […]
I recently had to prepare a delivery of images to a client – around 60,000 images, which I wanted to copy to a 128GB USB stick. Unfortunately this proved impossible. The Windows error message proved inconclusive, […]
Google offers a free trial of its Cloud Platform, worth US$ 300 over a 90-day period, with an additional US$ 100 if you provide a company e-mail address. After spending some time with Azure, I decided […]