You can make an R package too!

This week Emma Rand gave a talk and live demo on making packages in R. The talk covers motivation for why you might want to make a package in the first place and the live demo went through all the steps of creating a basic package and getting it up... [Read More]

Speeding up Python

In this talk, Liam Pattinson discussed why Python runs so slowly compared to other languages, how to identify performance bottlenecks, and how to optimise our Python code. The talk covered the use of profilers, how to get the most out of pure Python, how NumPy works, and how to write... [Read More]

Introduction to Version Control with Git and GitHub

This week, we had our annual introduction to version control using Git and GitHub. Version control is one of the foundational tools of software development, whether you’re writing small analysis scripts for your own experiments, or large HPC simulations with lots of collaborators. [Read More]