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Rollercoaster IV: ups and downs of Google Scholar citations

Time for an update to a previous post. For the past few years, I have been using an automated process to track citations to my lab’s work on Google Scholar (details of how to set this up are at the end of this post). Due to the nature of how Google Scholar tracks citations, it […]

6th June 2019By quantixed computing, fun, publishing bash, citations, Google Scholar, h-index, IgorPro, metrics, pythonLeave a Comment

Turn A Square: generative aRt

A while back I visited Artistes & Robots in Paris. Part of the exhibition was on the origins of computer-based art. Nowadays this is referred to as generative art, where computers generate artwork according to rules specified by the programmer. I wanted to emulate some of the early generative artwork I saw there, using R. Some […]

26th May 2019By quantixed adventures in code, computing, fun generative art, Igor, IgorPro, Rstats2 Comments

Garmonbozia: Using R to look at Garmin CSV data

Garmin Connect has a number of plots built in, but to take a deeper dive into all your fitness data, you need to export a CSV and fire up R. This post is a quick guide to some possibilities for running data.  There’s a few things that I wanted to look at. For example, how […]

9th April 2019By quantixed adventures in code, computing Garmin, Rstats, running2 Comments

All Around The World: Maps and Flags in R

Our lab is international. People born all over the world have come to work in my group. I’m proud of this fact, especially in the current political climate. I’ve previously used the GoogleMaps API to display a heat map on our lab webpage. It shows where in the world people in the lab come from. […]

20th March 2019By quantixed adventures in code, computing, fun dataviz, emojis, flags, maps, python, RstatsOne Comment

All That Noise: The vesicle packing problem

This week Erick Martins Ratamero and I put up a preprint on vesicle packing. This post is a bit of backstory but please take a look at the paper, it’s very short and simple. The paper started when I wanted to know how many receptors could fit in a clathrin-coated vesicle. Sounds like a simple […]

22nd February 2019By quantixed computing, fun, publishing, science bioRxiv, code, Tammes ProblemOne Comment

Installing open source PyMol on a Mac

This is a quick “how to” post. There is a licensed version of PyMol (MacPyMol) available, but the open source version can be installed on a Mac free of charge. The official page has a guide, which is not terribly detailed, and I found this excellent guide which is unfortunately out-of-date. Here is an updated […]

16th February 2019By quantixed adventures in code, computing bash, PyMol22 Comments

Super Automatic: computer-based tools for research

Since I have now written several posts on this. I thought I would summarise the computer-based tools that we are using in the lab to automate our work and organise ourselves. Electronic lab notebook – there are previous posts from me on picking an ELN platform and how to set up a WordPress ELN as well […]

19th December 2018By quantixed computing, science advice, lablife, organisationOne Comment

Experiment Zero: Using a Raspberry Pi Zero camera

This is the first post at quantixed about Raspberry Pi computing. Pi Zero is a minimalist Raspberry Pi that can be coupled to a camera. With this little rig, you can make time-lapse footage amongst other things. I’ve set up a couple of these now. One was to make a time-lapse movie of some plants […]

4th December 2018By quantixed computing, fun bash, cron, Pi Zero, PiCam, Raspberry Pi, shellOne Comment

Tips from the blog XI: docx to pdf

A long time ago I posted a little Automator routine to convert Word doc/docx files to PDF. Not long after that, this routine ceased to work due to changes in Microsoft Word (I think). It’s still very useful to convert a whole folder of docx files to PDF in order to avoid Word and just […]

30th November 2018By quantixed adventures in code, computing productivity, tftbLeave a Comment

New Lexicon: how to add a custom minted lexer in Overleaf

This quick post comes courtesy of LianTze Lim (an Overleaf TeXpert) and Kota Miura (a bioimage analyst). I asked on the ImageJ forum some time ago how to add an ImageJ Macro lexer for a LaTeX document I was writing. Kota responded with this lexer for pygments. I then asked Overleaf if it was possible to […]

23rd October 2018By quantixed computing ImageJ, LaTeX, lexer, minted, Overleaf, pygmentsLeave a Comment

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