Hi!

This is my personal website, on which you will find info about what I do, what I work towards, and hopefully some articles you’ll find useful or interesting.

Interests

I am interested in Open Research/Science (and Open Research Software specifically), the Commons, plants and our environment, sustainability, spatial data and cycling. Please do get in touch if you’d like to work with me on a project!

What I do

Training:

• Technology Trainer (and research support staff) at the University of Queensland’s Library. I authored and maintain many of our Creative Commons-licensed training manuals on R, Python, LaTeX, Bash, Git, OpenStreetMap, uMap, QGIS, OpenRefine, Audacity and Voyant Tools.

Software:

• Maintainer of R package rinat: acquire iNaturalist data
• Author and maintainer of R package osmxml: read and visualise OSM XML
• I enjoy sporadically spending time on Quality Assurance for LibreOffice

Open data:

• 1,900+ observations on iNaturalist
• 7,500+ edits on MusicBrainz
• 4,800+ changesets on OpenStreetMap
• 11,600+ contributions on Wikimedia projects (including Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons)

Thanks!

Thank you to everyone who make this work possible: the developers of and contributors to the tools mentioned above, the wonderful people I have worked with over the years, my fellow open data gatherers who have built these monuments over the years, the people who have documented and shared processes I have learned from, the organisations that support the ecosystem, and the building blocks that make this website what it is: Hugo, blogdown, R Markdown, the Hugo Apéro theme, and everyone who is part of the R community.