Choosing a hiking trail when you have a dog is not as simple as browsing a guidebook. Terrain difficulty, heat exposure, water sources, and leash regulations all factor in. After years of combining...
Read more →Most travelers with pets rely on word of mouth or review sites to find places that welcome animals. But several European countries publish structured tourism data that includes pet policies. These...
Read more →GNU PSPP turned twenty this year, depending on how you count. The project started as a student effort to provide a free alternative to SPSS, and it has grown into a capable tool used by researchers,...
Read more →Living in a rural area with animals means accepting a fundamental reality: the nearest emergency veterinary clinic might be an hour away. After fifteen years in central Georgia and later in rural...
Read more →The R versus Python debate has been running for over a decade, and it shows no signs of resolving. Having used both languages professionally since the mid-2000s, I find the discussion increasingly...
Read more →The outdoor gear industry has discovered that pet owners will spend money on specialized equipment. Dog-specific camping gear now fills entire sections of outdoor retailers. Most of it is...
Read more →Every few years someone declares Perl dead. And every few weeks I write another Perl one-liner to process text files that would take ten lines in Python. The language has aged, certainly, but for...
Read more →Which region of France is the most welcoming to pets? Opinions vary, but data can help. I analyzed the DATAtourisme national tourism dataset to rank regions by the proportion of listed establishments...
Read more →Cleaning out an old hard drive, I found my Lisp code for computing minimum spanning trees and k-nearest-neighbor graphs. Written around 2003 for a research project on graph-theoretic association...
Read more →Driving across France with a dog requires more planning than most travel guides suggest. The country is broadly dog-friendly, but specifics matter. Here is what I have learned from multiple...
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