Side projects

When I was writing this review, my supervisor told the other authors to let me do the section on differences between protein sequences because “he has weird ideas”, which is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said about me. Here are some weird ideas!

Generating graphs from relational data

work projects

Taking data from a relational database and turning it into graphs with Rust

UK political donations

data analysis

Exploring how donations to the UK’s political parties compare

Visualising OMOP

data analysis

work projects

A work project using Observable Framework

Visualising shallow neural nets

neural nets

Visualising how shallow neural nets can approximate any function

Map of MPs’ expenses

data analysis

Plotting the expenses MPs have claimed on their constituencies

Birthday animation

It was my 32nd birthday, so I made myself a little gift. At the bottom, there’s a gift for you too!

Predicting drug resistance from gene expression

data analysis

gdsc

As practice for using gradient boosted trees, I used an open dataset to use gene expression in tumours to predict resistance to chemotherapy drugs

Meeting the limit of Plotly maps

data analysis

prison map

In trying to make an animated prison map, I’ve reached one of Plotly’s limits

There and back again: a spreadsheets’ tale

data analysis

prison map

In which I complain about spreadsheets, normalize a database, then make another spreadsheet

Simulating particles moving through a confocal volume

FCS

simulation

The first step in simulating FCS

Formula 1 drivers

data analysis

Plotting the age distribution of formula 1 drivers over time

UK Prisons

data analysis

prison map

A map of the UK showing prison locations.

Simulating a first-order reaction

simulation

The first step in simulating reaction kinetics

MP carbon footprint on expenses

data analysis

An examination of how large the carbon footprint of UK MPs is, if you only look at the travel that they claim on their expenses.

Making a dose-response curve

simulation

A toy example of how pharmacologists determine binding coefficients using saturation binding data.