21 March 2025 - I decided to install Linux on my late 2013 Macbook Pro and it was surprisingly easy. Below is a summary of the steps involved. Note that I can’t guarantee that this will work on your machine as well (for newer macbooks with Apple chips, the process may be less straightforward).

3 August 2022 - With the Python bikeride package, you can analyse rides, runs or other activities that you’ve recorded with tools like Garmin or Strava. For example, show activities on a map, analyse the effect of crosswinds, or find your worst-weather rides.

15 February 2019 - I’m rewatching The Wire. It’s a great series anyhow, but for researchers, episode 9 of the first season (2002) is especially interesting. It features detective Lester Freamon instructing detectives Roland Pryzbylewski and Leander Sydnor how to investigate the assets of drug kingpin Avon Barksdale.

20 July 2018 - For recent Dutch elections, results are available per candidate, per polling station. The data is in the EML format. I wrote a script to convert that to dataframes.

13 May 2018 - The Kiesraad website where election results are published is partly generated using javascript (I think) and therefore not easy to scrape. For this reason, this seemed like a perfect project to explore Selenium.