Category: Data Analysis

Distributor, Administration, Metering charges and the EA levy component modelling Continuing on from Python Analytics & My electricity Prices- Part 2 & Python Analytics & My electricity Prices- Part 1 I did a quick summary, after receiving information about additional charges for Distributor, Administration, Metering charges and the EA levy components, of which I got

In Python Analytics & My electricity Prices- Part 1 after being able to answer the question “IS MY NEXT BILL GOING TO BE GREATER OR LESS THAN THE CURRENT ONE?” there were some other feature that I wanted to use Python to analyse. Changing Daytime Bucket sizes to match the Bill Daytime buckets In the

My electricity bill is broken down as follows: The actual Electricity purchase cost is usually just over 1/2 the actual bill, there are other charges such as “Distributor charges” that have a fixed component (minimum charge) and proportional component (based on kWH used) that is added to the bill for the final charge. So for

I pay my electricity bill weekly, its based on wholesale spot pricing, so can change quite a lot, quite quickly. I’m not quite sure what the underlying factors are that make it change so dramatically and the Electricity bill is not of much help. I sometimes look on the Electric Authority Website for wholesale prices

just reviewed my website and see that I have not posted anything since November. A change of habits and a focus on some different projects. The change of habit is in using Obsidian for most of my note taking of late. I find it a very handy tool to chart progress on projects I’m working

The web page for the Tree Diagram Background story My daughter is a grower and she had information on the different generations of plants she is growing. She has a spreadsheet that she uses to show different strains of plants, grown initially from seed and then cloning the plants to get the best strains. To

I’ve been trying to keep the cost of electricity down by turning on/ff the hot water cylinder, which I see as something I have control of and does use quite a bit of electricity. Your morning coffee, evening lights and cooking are things you do as a matter of course, and I’m not going to

I walk on Lyall bay beach and watch as new properties being built along the foreshore. I wonder how these will be managed with sea level rise. There has been work on the sand dunes and rocks added to try and reduce scouring at East End on beach last year. Lyall bay would be exposed

My Howya died recently, may it RIP, I had it for 3 years and definitely value for money. I upgraded to an Oppo phone, one of the criteria was that the new phone had NFC (Near field communication) so that I could play with tags. I’d bought, on Ali Express a NFC card read/writer that

This is in fact an article How to import JSON data into Google Sheets to create a live COVID-19 chart that I came across on my RSS feed from Datawrapper. I want to follow this as it sort of comes full circle. I’d started my covid data exploration with Google Sheets and importXML() and now,