Ross Spencer, Author at ross spencer :: exponentialdecay.digipres :: blog

Binary Prime Numbers, with Added Code

Just a short blog to end the year and to follow up on something I posted a few weeks back: While…

Hacking the DROID Signature File: Keep It Simple Stupid!

One of the nicest features introduced by the DROID 6.01 development team (Matt Palmer, Richard Flitcroft, Richard Brennan and Alok…

Hacking the DROID Signature File for Characterization

Identification of a format can be approached from many angles. Often a magic number will be used at the beginning…

Genesis of a File Format

Working from the bottom up and ignoring formal preservation descriptions of a file format (see: File Format a rdfs:Class) – a file…

The crescent glow of Neptune and Triton taken by Voyager 2 as it heads to the edge of the Solar System

Message in a Bottle

It’s a little bit like throwing a bottle into the cosmic ocean. – Carl Sagan There were some nice moments in…

Having just typed the original title of this blog post ‘Data as Art’ I realize it is probably the millionth blog to share it. A minor modification should help to identify it among the countless others…

This week, as the newly founded Open Data Institute (ODI) embraces data-as-culture I am reminded about a visualization I attempted a short while back – visualizing prime numbers.