• Visualising my Strava network interactively using R

    In my previous post I wrote about how I went about visualising my Strava network using ggraph. This is a short follow up looking at how one can visualise the network interactively using the visNetwork package. Let start by loading our required packages and reading in the data we downloaded...


  • Visualising my Strava Network using R

    The recent release of the ggraph package for visualising networks in R got me interested in learning a little more about graph analysis and visualisation. My first thought was about what data I could use. I have a twitter account but twitter has been written about quite extensively so I...


  • Choosing where to buy a house in Cape Town, Southern Suburbs

    The Cape Town southern suburbs contain some of the Western Cape’s top schools but getting your child in to your desired school is very much dependent on living in the catchment area. These catchment areas are not always precisely defined with schools often just indicating that it should be the...