Arthur Turrell

Media mentions of opposition politicians in the UK

A re-imagining of how to produce statistics

Untangling spaghetti code with smartrappy

Efficiency in the public sector: analysis and operations

Efficiency in the public sector: communication and co-ordination

The data validation landscape in 2025

Ultra-modern Python Cookiecutters

TIL: How to resume sessions on virtual machines

Converting handwritten, maths-heavy lecture notes to markdown using large language models

The false economy of bad IT

TIL: how to create and work with a MySQL database on Azure

TIL: how to create and work with remote blob storage on Azure

TIL: how to connect Visual Studio Code to Azure Virtual Machines

TIL: how to create a virtual desktop from a cloud virtual machine

Data science with impact

Why have a model registry?

Building an API in the cloud in fewer than 200 lines of code

The explosion in time series forecasting packages in data science

TIL: Obsidian, and integrating it with Zotero

The self-storage problem meets chatGPT