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(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on.

I spent the weekend picking up the basics of Manim, a Python library used for making maths animations - most famously for the YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown.

I had some time on my hands in the last few weeks while I wait to start a new job, so I went back to the tinieR package to fiddle around!

This post was written in collaboration with John ‘Hedge’ Hall of Access Parkour.

This post was written and shared as part of Time To Talk Day 2022, an initiative to encourage conversations around mental health.

Quarto is a fantastic scientific and technical document publishing tool that I just discovered - it’s basically Rmarkdown, but expanded beyond R to become a standalone document processor, whether that be just for markdown or including R, Python, and JavaS…

Here’s a fun little project I worked on over the weekend.

This project was my thesis for my MRes Sport and Exercise Science degree.

(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on.

There’s been a few videos going around the parkour community recently claiming to perform postural and biomechanical analysis on some of the Storror athletes.

I got really, really bored this week, so I decided to go back to the R package, tinieR, that I released last year (if you haven’t seen it before, tinieR shrinks image file sizes using the TinyPNG.com API).

tldr: I wrote a Pandoc Lua filter to correctly format my Bookdown/Rmarkdown documents no matter the output file.

In my last post on Bookdown, I mentioned using writing environments other than RStudio to work on non-code text sections.

Terry Pratchett is my favourite author.

I first got to grips with the R coding language to do the statistical analysis for my dissertation, but I still did all my actual writing in more traditional word processing apps. 1 This became a pain any time I needed to copy-paste an update into a table…

(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on.

While publishing my dissertation online and putting together the Parkour Clinic site over the summer, I got increasingly familiar with the Hugo static site generator.

Developing my first R package, tinieR was one of the most rewarding projects I’ve done this summer (and I’ve been busy).

TLDR: I wrote an R package.

In my last blog post, I explored the data that resulted from my undergraduate dissertation a little bit more.

After a few long months of planning and preparation, and some not-inconsiderable beauracratic wranglings, I’m happy to finally launch a new project: the Parkour Clinic!

I had a lot of ideas for what I wanted to include in my dissertation.

If you don’t have the time, energy, or stomach to read all 6000+ words of my full dissertation (and frankly, who can blame you), I’ve put up some short summary slides: ⚡ View summary slides These were written in Remark and so should work in the browser, e…

Around the beginning of March was a strange time at university.

Update: Since first writing this post, I’ve actually updated the web app in question to look a little nicer and even work on smaller screens, so the video demo in this post won’t match what you’ll see if you follow the links to try it yourself.

This project was my final year dissertation for my Sport Therapy BSc undergraduate degree, the abstract of which was accepted at the BASES Conference 2021 and presented as a poster where it won the Human Kinetics Student Poster Presentation Award.

(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on.

(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on.

This research was done as part of our final year biomechanics module.

(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on.

I’ve been enjoying doing some (indoor) climbing recently.

I found this article pretty interesting.

Exploring working from different or weird positions has been something I’ve been enjoying lately.

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a huge fan of cardio - I don’t really have the attention span for it.

There’s a unique type of fear about a new gym.

Short one today, but I found this video really interesting: I love a bit of Numberphile and if you remotely enjoyed this one you should check out every other video on the channel.

I’m not sure where this habit of clapping just behind your head while jumping two inches off the ground during a burpee came from, but I hate it. cough I’m not saying you’re not still breathing hard by the end, but I suspect it’s just to chase numbers, to…

A great read on the common questions of healthy eating, without faff or any mention of Gwyneth Paltrow.

I’ve been struggling a little lately with cardio.

Mobility is such a big topic, and is kind of in vogue at the moment, so it can be hard to figure out the good from the bad when it comes to exercises and routines to follow.

Sometimes, you just want to get outside, and fall over.

A day in the gym.

Sometimes, things worry you for no reason.