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From Gossip to Gospel
In 1675, Isaac Newton famously said “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”. This post traces the pedigree of knowledge presented in a peer-reviewed paper, and quickly enters murky water.
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Welcome to Ausvet’s new logo and website
After more than 22 years, we have updated our logo and launched a new website. Logo: The familiar blue star has gone. Our new logo aims to capture the global nature of our work. It represents the interconnections that drive disease understanding: multifactorial...
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Upcoming Workshop: Regional Animal Health Surveillance
This three-day workshop will provide fresh, exciting and inspiring ideas about how regional animal health can be strengthened in a pragmatic and sustainable way.
When: 17-19 November 2018 – a Post-Symposium Workshop at ISVEE 15
Where: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand
Facilitators: Ausvet plus invited speakers from the Region
Cost: 600 USD
Contact: Jonathan Happold: jonathan@ausvet.com.au
Using Epitools for prevalence study sample sizes
Cross-sectional studies are commonly used in veterinary epidemiological research—particularly to measure infection prevalence and compare infection prevalence between certain subpopulations (for example, between animals under different management conditions)....
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Making points into polygons using PostGIS
Australian postcodes are not reliable nor good indicators of areas, but sometimes, in the absence of any other spatial identifiers, we tend to resort to using them. As we only had a list of centroids for each postcode, to better assess the data we need to create...
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Defining a Mapserver Circle Symbol
Just a quick use case, we required a circle symbol in Mapserver, but our current circles were based on a single point, giving us poor legend outputs (i.e. a . instead of a o ) Mapserver vector symbols are defined using a cartesian coordinates system (no surprises...
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