Author Archives: skiptoniam

I usually try to avoid using ArcGIS. As I prefer to do geo-spatial analysis in R, using some great packages including sp, raster and rgdal. But some recent analyses have required some tendonitis inducing* mouse clicking in ArcGIS. Only a simple task … Continue reading →

In football, like science, competing paradigms and co-existing concepts are common. Despite the revolutionary ideas and performances of Sebes and Puskás, other tactical systems flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. The Catenaccio (literally meaning door-bolt in Italian) is a tactical … Continue reading →

In all news Skip’s research. I’ve got a lot of blogging to catch up on. A few post to come on upcoming adventures to US and Canada. Cool R trick and tips with Knitr, creating R Packages to make your … Continue reading →

I’m one of those people that loves to listen to music while working and reading. So here are a few papers I’m enjoying along with some tracks to accompany them. A classic paper (May, 1976) deserves a classic tune. There … Continue reading →

Ten commandments so you can publish during your PhD,an ode to Pia Lentini and The Notorious B.I.G. Over the weekend I was trying to write up my first PhD chapter as a paper, when The Notorious B.I.G got shuffled into … Continue reading →

I’m speaking next Monday the 3rd of December at the 13th International Deep-sea Biodiversity Symposium in Wellington, New Zealand. I’ll be speaking on beta-diversity in the deep-sea. My talk will focus on briefly describing the bathyal environment around Australia and … Continue reading →