I got a question from a friend: how do I fit a function, using least-squares, to analyze the residuals. To answer that I cook this notebook up and made a post out of it ;-)

For the example I create a fake tidal signal, that we want fit and remove, added ...

Last week, at the SciPy conference, I had chance to sprint on the pyugrid. The pyugrid module aims to be a Python API to utilize data written using the netCDF unstructured grid conventions. Right now it support only triangular meshes, but the conventions cover any type of unstructured grids.

Let ...

I just read an issue at the folium issue tracker that gave me an idea. How can I hack folium's HTML to quickly test new leaflet features? Well... The answer is simple, inline modification of the HTML ;-)

I want to test the raster plotting feature. First, just to check ...

In this post I will show how to write a simple script to scrape a webpage with a list of podcasts links. I did that while preparing to go to Austin. It is a nice way to use my extra "airport time" to study a little bit.

The first step ...

After copying-and-pasting so many of my iris code snippets I decided to package everything in a new module: TARDIS.

Tardis is nothing more than a hackish wrapper around iris that expands some of the iris methods to work with 2D-Coords and to facilitate some of its methods calls.

Virtually everything ...

A friend asked for a nice figure for the Baía de Todos os Santos. Requests like that are always troublesome! It is hard to find high resolution datasets for the coastline for South America. They do exist, but are rarely online and, if you find someone that owns such data ...

I already wrote about how to build this blog using pelican, how to create sites with Jekyll, and Hyde. In the past I also tried Nikola and even raw HTML. However, since I found out about mkdocs, I gave up all others. Particularly when building quick sites for classes, courses ...

Anyone that reads this blog knows that I use iris a lot. Still, every now and then I get bitten by some iris quirkiness. This post is to explain on of those quirkiness that a lot of my colleagues, myself included, like to rant about: "How to load a cube ...

I have been working in splitting iris units module into its own module for a while and recently we had our first release, and our first external use: the IOOS compliance-checker.

(Warning! Before reading the post please watch the video below.)

While listening to Kenneth Reitz on this Talk Python to me episode and I realized that the most popular Python module, which is requests, could have failed due to a bad name choice! Instead of "Requests: HTTP for Humans" Kenneth Reitz almost named it "Requests: HTTP for python that doesn ...