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Matthew Wigginton Conway in Indicatrix

May 25, 2011

1–2–3: Mirror Modelling in Inkscape

The other day, I needed to draw a symmetrical object (a map point icon) in Inkscape, the wonderful free vector graphics editor. I was surprised to find that there is no symmetrical modeling feature, so I improvised. Here’s how to create a symmetrical polygon in…

Matthew Wigginton Conway in Indicatrix

Mar 25, 2014

Overanalyzing Board Games: Network Analysis and Pandemic

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Matthew Wigginton Conway in Indicatrix

Aug 9, 2014

Running RStudio Server on Amazon EC2

RStudio Server running on Amazon AWS, accessed via SSH tunneling

R is a great environment for statistical computing; I’ve used it in
a number of projects…

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Matthew Wigginton Conway in Indicatrix

Dec 30, 2012

Identifying High Quality Transit Corridors

In my previous post, I analyzed the effects of a proposed bill in California that…

Matthew Wigginton Conway in Indicatrix

May 29, 2011

Changing the Ownership of a WordPress Blog

Astute readers will have noticed that the author of this blog has just changed. Not to worry, it’s just an alter ego! I was doing some housekeeping to keep my various unrelated blogs straight as I move away from my other one. Here’s how I did it:

Matthew Wigginton Conway in Indicatrix

Jan 24, 2016

Pareto Efficiency and Urban Planning

Urban planning is the process by which society decides how our cities and regions will develop in the future. As anyone who’s been involved in a planning process can tell you, it is a very difficult field. I argue that the reason for this is because there are no…