Hello! This site contains a haphazard collection of projects I have worked on over the years :)
Pete's Forecast →
A website to view the latest GFS weather forecast, featuring beautiful windy-style streamlines. Built on top of the latest web mapping tools.
A Data Harmonisation Tool →
An open-source tool to harmonize disparate datasets to a common ontology. Built using Streamlit and utilizing the latest RAG techniques to accelerate an otherwise tedious and time-consuming part of the ETL process.
A Blog About A Data Harmonisation Tool →
A blog post about the above tool
A Data Science Platform Blog →
A blog post about building a data science ecosystem for heat and health research
Accessing NetCDF and GRIB file collections as cloud-native virtual datasets using Kerchunk →
An article I wrote following my work as a Google Summer of Code contributor, working on the open-source Python package Kerchunk.
A Pure Python Weather Routing Package →
Frustrated with the fact that most commercially available weather routing programs only accept GRIB files as input, I built a relatively lightweight Python weather routing tool that accepts any data accessible by Xarray.
A Streamlit Web App Using The Weather Routing Package To Predict Finish Times In The Cape to Rio Race →
I used Streamlit to create a web app that predicts the finishing order of the Cape to Rio Yacht Race. The app relies on a series of serverless functions to first use Kerchunk for efficient access to the latest GFS weather forecast, then web scrapes the positions of each boat from the official tracker, and finally routes each boat individually to the finish. This allows users to better understand the current race rankings and visualize the upcoming weather conditions for each boat.
Master's Thesis →
A CMIP5 Model Selection Specific to South Africa's Winter Rainfall Zone.
High Resolution WRF forecast →
This is an operational 1km WRF downscaling of the GFS forecast, run entirely from my personal computer and deployed as a Python widget.
Predicting Turtle Hatchling Strandings in the Western Cape →
I was approached by the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation to analyze weather conditions during past turtle hatchling stranding events and investigate the feasibility of predicting such events.
