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A varied collection of thoughts and ideas, usually around statistics, football, space weather or potentially interesting tidbits.

Rooney Scores 50 goals for England – the data

Data analysis of Wayne Rooney's 50 goals for England

5 min read · September 11, 2015

2015 · mathematics football
Safe Reboot of Locked Linux Machine

How to safely reboot a locked linux machine

3 min read · March 20, 2015

2015 · misc
Modified Taylor Diagrams

Python code for making your own modified Taylor diagrams.

2 min read · August 07, 2014

2014 · code spaceWeather
Quick way to remove X Server for running a headless server

Remove X Server

2 min read · May 10, 2014

2014 · misc
Making Files and Folders Lowercase

How to make all files lowercase

1 min read · October 21, 2013

2013 · misc
New Pound Coin

The interesting mathematics of our new pound coin

5 min read · April 16, 2013

2013 · mathematics
Variance in TV Viewing Figures

How many people just turn on How does Grey's Anatomy viewing figures vary over time?

9 min read · April 16, 2013

2013 · mathematics
Velocity Required for Loop-the-Loop

What is the velocity required to complete a loop-the-loop

3 min read · February 21, 2013

2013 · mathematics
It's Snowing Outside

Investigating the number of unique snowballs

4 min read · January 19, 2013

2013 · mathematics
The Crawshaw Method (for Quadratics)

How to solve quadratic equations using the Crawshaw method

4 min read · May 01, 2012

2012 · mathematics