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Solving the knapsack problem with Python and Gurobi

by Jack Simpson

Resources to learn mathematical optimisation

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PyCon: why data scientists should learn mathematical optimisation

by Jack Simpson

Exploring the impact of constraints on a solar farm in the National...

by Jack Simpson

How does AEMO predict demand in the National Electricity Market?

by Jack Simpson

Big Battery Bidding and Rebidding!

by Jack Simpson

How does a gigawatt of renewables disappear?

by Jack Simpson

Data science tip: store constants in their own file

by Jack Simpson

Summary of reliability forecasting in the NEM

by Jack Simpson

Visualising the Tesla big battery at Hornsdale

by Jack Simpson

AER State of the energy market 2021 Summary

by Jack Simpson

Electricity Market Modelling Resources

by Jack Simpson
  • Using VNC to view the Raspberry Pi GUI

    by Jack Simpson July 4, 2016
    by Jack Simpson July 4, 2016

    One of my side projects has involved playing around with the camera on a Raspberry Pi and I realised that it would be handy to see the camera output. After…

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  • Finding rows in dataframe with a 0 value using Pandas

    by Jack Simpson July 4, 2016
    by Jack Simpson July 4, 2016

    Recently I needed to identify which of the rows in a CSV file contained 0 values. This was interesting because normally I tend to look at this problem within columns…

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  • When to use ‘is’ and ‘==’ in Python

    by Jack Simpson June 24, 2016
    by Jack Simpson June 24, 2016

    One of the things that may seem confusing in Python is how there appears to be two ways to test if variables are the same: ‘==’ and ‘is’: Both comparison…

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  • Python object ids and mutable types

    by Jack Simpson June 23, 2016
    by Jack Simpson June 23, 2016

    Did you know that every object in your Python program is given a unique identifier by the interpreter which you can return using the ‘id()’ function? Let’s see what happens…

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  • Closing a frozen SSH session

    by Jack Simpson June 14, 2016
    by Jack Simpson June 14, 2016

    Normally, when I leave an SSH session idle too long and it freezes the terminal, I just close that tab and start a new one. I never bothered to look…

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  • Positioning a legend outside the figure with Matplotlib and Python

    by Jack Simpson January 11, 2016
    by Jack Simpson January 11, 2016

    One of the things that has been a little frustrating lately has been what to do if you need a legend for your plot, yet there’s so much content on…

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  • Never trust your factors

    by Jack Simpson January 6, 2016
    by Jack Simpson January 6, 2016

    I recently helped a friend out with a dataset – she was struggling to merge the CSV files from two dataframes in R into one dataframe. I thought this would be…

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  • Python hmmlearn installation issues

    by Jack Simpson January 5, 2016
    by Jack Simpson January 5, 2016

    I’ve recently started learning how to apply a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to some states of honeybee behaviour in my data and have been trying to install Python’s hmmlearn library. Unfortunately I…

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  • Mistakes in machine learning datasets

    by Jack Simpson December 30, 2015
    by Jack Simpson December 30, 2015

    One of the things you realise once you start learning about machine learning is just how important a well-annotated dataset is that you can use for training. Your predictive model…

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  • Compiling C++ Code Using Caffe

    by Jack Simpson December 30, 2015
    by Jack Simpson December 30, 2015

    As part of my PhD project, I have been writing a program in C++ to track hundreds of bees that I have tagged and to identify the pattern on the…

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  • 1

    Data science tip: store constants in their own file

    July 7, 2021
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    How to vectorize conditional calculations in Python

    April 4, 2021
  • 3

    How to improve the performance of Pandas with eval and query

    April 5, 2021
  • 4

    How does a gigawatt of renewables disappear?

    July 14, 2021
  • 5

    Visualising the impact of Melbourne’s COVID-19 lockdown on Solar Panel Installations

    April 7, 2021
  • 6

    What I learned Visiting Silicon Valley

    April 12, 2021
  • 7

    Visualising the Tesla big battery at Hornsdale

    July 5, 2021
  • 8

    How does AEMO predict demand in the National Electricity Market?

    July 26, 2021
  • 9

    Big Battery Bidding and Rebidding!

    July 18, 2021
  • 10

    Exploring the impact of constraints on a solar farm in the National Electricity Market

    September 3, 2021
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