http://skygiant.com.au/ searching for the signal in the noise Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://skygiant.com.au//announcing-nclx As you may have seen from previous posts, I use the programming language NCL from NCAR for a lot of my analysis and processing work. Moreover, I find it to be one of the least fiddly plotting engines available to go from "general idea" to "publication quality" in a matter of a few lines of code. Even in situations where I don't use NCL for the processing part, such as when I need to massively parallelise my computations, the plotting engine alone is well worth learning. Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 2017-03-23T00:00:00+00:00 http://skygiant.com.au//commandline-arguments-in-ncl ## Parameterising NCL Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 2016-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 http://skygiant.com.au//cron-running-but-not-working There is a golden rule by which I live when it comes to programming, if I have to do it more than once it gets automated, scripted up and generally I write a short post to remind myself how and why I did it. Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000 2016-06-30T00:00:00+00:00 http://skygiant.com.au//setting-up-netcdf-on-ubuntu The following was tested with 14.04 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000 2016-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 http://skygiant.com.au//sshfs-on-mac I have recently reformatted my machine and it turns out that the truly flakey MacPorts has let me down with sshfs. Having tried to install it this morning I have a revised method for getting it to work. Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 2016-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 http://skygiant.com.au//applying-a-function-to-multiple-columns-in-pandas I am currently in the process of wrangling some Automatic Weather Station (AWS) data into a usable format. However, the space-delimited columnar format is not exactly friendly for a Pandas user. Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 2016-02-29T00:00:00+00:00 http://skygiant.com.au//my-first-publication It is official, as of a short time ago my first publication has shown up on Google Scholar: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 2016-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 http://skygiant.com.au//markdown-math-in-atom Atom is a great little editor that comes with Markdown support for both syntax and preview. However, the preview engine is limited and if you are like me and like to put a little maths into your markdown then you will want to track down and install a more advanced package called "markdown-preview-plus". Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 2016-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 http://skygiant.com.au//format-a-broken-usb-on-mac In testing out Windows 10 and El Capitan on a variety of machines I soon found out that the flashing process had baked my brand new 16GB USB stick, the thing wouldn't boot nor allow me to reformat under OSX or windows. Trying to reformat under Disk Utility came up with the super-helpful error message "Name Invalid" and no clear direction on how to fix it. Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 2016-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 http://skygiant.com.au//using-screen I often have to connect to several remote servers in a day and it is easy to get lost in a sea of terminal windows. Something that I am trying to do more of these days is to use the screen command on the remote machine. Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 2016-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 http://skygiant.com.au//day-one Today I began my PhD journey at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Tasmania. As expected, there was little set up in advance and my day was a flurry of running about the building talking to the people I need to know and awaiting the administrivia that will grant me enough access to be dangerous. Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 2016-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 2017-03-23T00:00:00+00:00