Supporting volunteer monitoring of marine biodiversity with modern web and data tools
Summarising the work Uri Seroussi and I did to improve Reef Life Survey’s Reef Species of the World app.
Reef Life Survey
You don't need a proprietary API for static maps
For many use cases, libraries like cartopy are better than the likes of Mapbox and Google Maps.
Email notifications on public GitHub commits
GitHub publishes an Atom feed, which means you can use any RSS reader to follow commits.
Building useful machine learning tools keeps getting easier: A fish ID case study
Lessons learned building a fish ID web app with fast.ai and Streamlit, in an attempt to reduce my fear of missing out on the latest deep learning developments.
Some highlights from 2020
Sharing remote teamwork insights, my climate & sustainability activism, Reef Life Survey publications, and progress on Automattic’s Experimentation Platform.
Exploring and visualising Reef Life Survey data
Web tools I built to visualise Reef Life Survey data and assist citizen scientists in underwater visual census work.
The joys of offline data collection
Insights on data collection and machine learning from spending a month sailing, diving, and counting fish with Reef Life Survey.