There is a great text mining package in R called ‘tm’. This is a short introduction to tm and how it can be used to create what is called a Document-Term Matrix, which is a matrix showing the frequency of Read more…
I recently did a powerpoint on how I use R to poke Linked Data endpoints, it is hosted on slideshare and am posting it here incase anybody is interested.
Being new to R I found it hard to get what I want out of dataframes. I stumbled across a package called SQLDF which lets you use SQL statements (SQLite syntax I think) to query the dataframes by replacing table names are replaced Read more…
A few days ago I made a picture of artists in punk rock bands and the relationships between them based on the bands they have played in. Click to make it bigger: I grabbed the data from the dbpedia Read more…
Neighbours is an Australian documentary following the lives of the residents of Ramsey Street. Kangaroos roam the streets while young surfers drunk on fosters try their not to ride into during skateboard races. This is captured perfectly in the Neighbours Read more…
At first glance it would be easy to dismiss Murder Miners as simply a minecraft rip off. While there is clearly lots of inspiration gained from Minecraft, Murder Miners is geared towards pvp deathmatch instead of Mining and building. My Read more…
I like games that you can enjoy in short amounts of time and think some of the most successful of these games somehow managed to throw massive amounts of charm at you very quicky. There was a RPG PSP game Read more…
I did a short video showing how I create a visual Graph from dbpedia data. In this video I use SPARQL to query a triple-store endpoint, then I take the results, spruce them up in Google Refine and explore the Read more…
Last week at the University of Bolton we put on a workshop for final year students that were about to embark on a job hunt. While the workshop was held in conjunction with the careers advice service and there was Read more…
I volenteered to help write a briefing paper on analytic tools in the hope of stealing some time to play with cool stuff. The joy of having some play time in work quickly evaporated when it struck me that not Read more…
