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Top Ten Blog Posts of 2020

As it’s approaching the end of the term, it seems like a good time to look back on our most popular blog posts of 2020. Unsurprisingly several of the top ten posts are related to working from home and the challenges that it brought!

1. Free Mathematica Courses

Published 3rd April 2020

Not long after lockdown started a large number of you were interested in learning data science, data visualisation and image processing from home.

2. April Top Tip - Working from home with multiple (virtual) desktops

Published 1st April

This was not an April Fools article! By the beginning of April it was apparent that we were going to be working from home for some time so it’s not surprising that this article was so popular.

3. May Top Tip: Home broadband issues and solutions

Published 4th May

As lockdown continued many of us were trying to work from home despite battling issues with our home broadband!

4. MATLAB Licence Update

Published 22nd September

Reflecting how many University researchers use MATLAB, this story is high up the list despite only being published at the end of September.

5. EPSRC Research Software Engineer Fellowships 2020

Published 21st July

We announced that the application process for the prestigious 5-year Research Software Engineering Fellowships was open.

6. Microsoft: COVID-19 Grant and Open Research Dataset

Published 1st May

Unsurprisingly this was of interest to many of our researchers. Did you apply? Were you successful? Let us know!

7. Installing Apps on macOS Catalina (10.15)

Published 2nd March

A pre-lockdown blog post - just! The high position of this blog posts demonstrates the number of researchers who use Macs.

8. Julia Now Available on the CSF

Published 10th July

We announced that Julia was now available on the CSF thanks to the efforts of one of our Research Software Engineers working closely with Dave Topping from the School of Natural Sciences.

9. Mac Move to Arm Processors

Published 1st July

The second Mac related blog post in our top ten. This time Ian Cottam gave his thoughts on the news that Apple were moving to Arm Processors and what it meant for Mac owners.

10. Processing UK Biobank Datasets

Published 15th July

A blog post on how we helped Alex Casson’s research group find an easy and quick way to process a large dataset from UK Biobank.