Environmental Bytes for a Better Earth

One of my favourite hobbies is learning new things, as well as helping others to do the same. On this page you will find blogs documenting the wide range of skills I have learnt as an Environmental Data Analyst, with everything from low level R coding concepts, all the way to fully fledged environmental data analysis pipelines, interactive dashboards built in Shiny and Tableau, and examples of SQL and database management. I try to post regularly, so come back often to see what’s new!
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Migrating to Version 4 of the tmap R Package

My favourite mapping package just released a major update! In this post I discuss the changes made as they relate to my work, and provide some tips and tricks I have learnt so far when migration from Version 3.0 to Version 4.0.

Sep 23, 2025

An Opinionated Dataframe Cleaner

Naming your dataframe columns doesn’t have to be hard, does it? Here I demonstrate the benefits of implimenting an opionated dataframe cleaner to help keep your columns organised.

Sep 16, 2025

Automate Your Output Folders

Got a bunch of scripts and are confused which output belongs to which script? Maybe you promised yourself your file organisation would be good this time? Never fear, this post is for you!

Sep 9, 2025

An Epic Battle Between Vectorised Functions and For Loops

The choice between using a vectorised function or a for loop can sometimes be a hard one. Don’t know what they are? Or which one is right for which scenario? This blog is for you.

Sep 2, 2025

Making Beautiful Maps in R

Creating maps using a programming language can be a painful process. In this blog I explore the R package ‘tmap’ and how it can be used to programmatically make beautiful, report ready maps, with as little stress as possible.

Aug 26, 2025

Learning To Create Your Own Custom Functions

Having the ability to create functions is both a blessing and a curse. You are gifted with limitless potential, but absolutely limited power supply (AKA your brain). In this post I discuss how I learnt to make my own functions and the trials I faced along the way.

Aug 18, 2025

Going Loopy for For Loops

Whats the point of for loops? Well for looping of course. In this post I break down how to write for loops in R, how you can easily understand them, and compelling reasons that you might want to learn them yourself!

Aug 5, 2025

Creating Beautiful Plots using eReefs Data

In this blog I demonstrate how you can make beautiful plots in R using example data extracted from the eReefs platform. You can also follow along with any of your own data.

Jul 30, 2025

Creating Beautiful Maps Using eReefs Data

In this blog I demonstrate how you can make beautiful maps in R using example data extracted from the eReefs platform. You can also follow along with any of your own data.

Jul 24, 2025

The Extraction of Highly Specialised Modelled Data from eReefs

In this blog I talk about the skills needed and the steps taken to execute the extraction of modelled environmental data such as ocean currents, nutrient loads, and water clarity from the online platform “eReefs”.

Jul 21, 2025
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