by admin | Sep 8, 2017 | featured, Open Access
OpenPNM is an open-source code to simulate multi-phase flow within porous media. It is based on a pore-network approach, i.e. the complex morphology of solid and non-solid space within a porous medium is abstracted by a network of pores and throats. Typically an...
by admin | Aug 27, 2017 | Climate Change, featured, Open Data, Open Science, Skeptic
Background Recently I encountered this very nice looking video on LinkedIn. It’s purpose is to show the scale of global warming since1900. It is based on data published by NASA, and it looked very impressive, until I looked closer: The bars are confusing. As...
by admin | Aug 10, 2017 | featured, Open Data, Open Science
The EU Open Data Portal allows public access to open data produced by EU institutions and bodies. It contains scientific, environmental, social, financial, economical, trade and other data sets. It can be access directly through a web interface, custom...
by admin | Aug 6, 2017 | featured, Tools
The conversion of numbers between different bases has been something I had not encountered for a decade after leaving university. However I faced it in a recent job interview. While I did not have a confident answer in the interview, I spent some time to come up with...
by admin | Nov 13, 2016 | featured, Tools
I was looking for a nice way to render a galaxy. Specifically I was looking for something I could easily do with python. I am using a number of 3D visualization packages on a daily basis, and my favourite packages suffer from the fact that they are not fully python 3...
