Blog
November 2022
Moving from PowerPoint to Quarto presentations
19 November This year, I've completely moved all my presentations for lectures and other talks from PowerPoint to Quarto (revealjs presentations). Here, I outline how you can then upload those to Github (or similar service) and publish with password protection via netlify so only you can access it for teaching/giving talks.
Moving from twitter to mastodon
05 November On my decision to migrate from twitterverse to fediverse
December 2020
Cartographic desktop backgrounds
28 December Making nice cartographic desktop backgrounds in R
Visualising NVivo coding with plotly treemap
12 December My workflow to visualise NVivo coding with plotly treemap in R
November 2020
Downloading all linked PDFs from multiple URLs using Python
14 November My first try with web scraping using Python
July 2020
Mapping countries' GDP against Fortune Global 500 top 10
11 July My experimentation with `ggplot2` and custom functions in R, while highlighting global corporate wealth/power
June 2020
Mass conversion of SPSS files to CSV format in R
10 June In this post, I provide a few options to convert large volume of SPSS data files to CSV files in R.
July 2017
My Writing Workflow
22 July In this post, I outline my workflow for writing up reports, working papers, and manuscripts for journal submission.
My Data Workflow
21 July In this post, I outline my basic workflow while working with primary data (quantitative for the most part). Parts of the workflow would be similar for working with secondary data as well.
My favourite visualisation packages in R
04 July In this post, I write about two of my favourite data visualisation packages for R (in addition to ggplot2, which has become pretty much a default visualisation package).
June 2017
Using GitHub repo as part of journal paper submission
29 June Here's how we used GitHub repository as part of journal paper submission.