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A collection of thoughts and projects on how to make better decisions with code and math

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Richard Davey

My professional interests include earth science, numerical modelling and problem solving through code.

Latin Hypercube Sampling

Latin hypercube sampling aims to bring the best of both worlds: the unbiased random sampling of monte carlo simulation; and the even coverage of a grid search over the decision space. It does this by ensuring values for all variables are as uncorrelated and widely varying as possible (over the range of permitted values).

armr

Docker containers for R on 32 bit ARM architectures, including Raspberry Pi

chargepointAPI

R package to retrieve vehicle charging infrastructure information from the UK National Chargepoint Registry

DVLA

R package to retrieve vehicle data from the DVLA API