Welcome to my research blog!

2017-02-24T19:30:05+00:00

What I hope to accomplish with this blog is to feature and share open-access research projects that I am currently working on.

This site is built with Jekyll, which offers powerful support for code snippets:

Ruby:

def print_hi(name)
  puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.

# using google, this will return lat/lon for Baltimore, Maryland
CenterOfMap <- geocode("Baltimore, MD")
# get the google map of Baltimore
Baltimore <- get_map(c(lon=CenterOfMap$lon, lat=CenterOfMap$lat),zoom = 12,
    maptype = "terrain",
    source = "google")
my.base.map <- ggmap(Baltimore)

Python:

try:
    z = int(x) + int(y)     # if successful, z will contain the sum

except ValueError:
    # nope, there's a problem

    print('x or y or both contain at least one non-digit character')
    z = -1

print('%s + %s is: %s' %(str(x),str(y),str(z)))

(Note to self: to add new posts, simply add a file in the _posts directory that follows the convention YYYY-MM-DD-name-of-post.ext and includes the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.)

Visit my github pages for code, versioning and documentation.

Dolores Jane Forbes

Welcome to my research blog!