My activity on twitter revolves around four accounts. I try to segregate what happens on each account, and there’s inevitably some overlap. But what about overlap in followers? What lucky people are following all four? How many only see the individual accounts? It’s quite easy to look at this in R. So there are 36 […]
Tag: Rstats
Frankly, Mr. Shankly
I read about Antonio Sánchez Chinchón’s clever approach to use the Travelling Salesperson algorithm to generate some math-art in R. The follow up was even nicer in my opinion, Pencil Scribbles. The subject was Boris Karloff as the monster in Frankenstein. I was interested in running the code (available here and here), so I thought I’d […]
Parallel lines: new paper on modelling mitotic microtubules in 3D
We have a new paper out! You can access it here. The people This paper really was a team effort. Faye Nixon and Tom Honnor are joint-first authors. Faye did most of the experimental work in the final months of her PhD and Tom came up with the idea for the mathematical modelling and helped to […]
The International Language of Screaming
A couple of recent projects have meant that I had to get to grips more seriously with R and with MATLAB. Regular readers will know that I am a die-hard IgorPro user. Trying to tackle a new IDE is a frustrating experience, as anyone who has tried to speak a foreign language will know. The speed […]