Officially named places of First Nations origin in NSW, Australia

Posted on Tue 01 August 2023 in blog • Tagged with data-visualisation, geospatial-data, Python

Recently I was curious about the origin of my street name and my search online led me to the …


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Introducing Archer API

Posted on Sat 22 April 2023 in blog • Tagged with API, data-engineering

Introducing Archer API, a REST API based on one of my favourite shows, the adult animated spy comedy Archer.

Archer API provides JSON data about Archer's episodes, charactes and quotes.

For example, to get a random quote you can access the archerapi.com/api/quotes/random endpoint:

{
    "character": "Sterling Malory …

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How I created a Twitter bot that posts about science fiction books

Posted on Fri 31 March 2023 in blog • Tagged with twitter-bot, data-engineering

As an avid reader I thought it would be cool to combine my love of literature and data to create a Twitter bot that posts about sci-fi books :

Screenshot of the Project Gutenberg Sci-Fi books Twitter account

Specifically I wanted to recommend science fiction books that you could read free of charge, something made …


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Where are Australia's oil and gas pipelines located?

Posted on Wed 22 March 2023 in blog • Tagged with data-visualisation, geospatial-data, Python

Recently I was browsing Geoscience Australia's datasets and came across a useful database of "known spatial locations of onshore …


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