Those who subscribe to the CETIS newsletter will receive the top posts of the month ranked by the total number of views they’ve had, while its nice to see what our audience find interesting sometimes we have our own personal Read more…
Whether you’re trying to flog wares, advertise consultancy skills or simply have a big ego; it seems that we all want to abuse social media for a cause. I find it interesting that we all choose to use different social Read more…
As those who followed the Game Group administration story earlier this year know, purchasing physical media for games is on the way out. This isn’t a recent thing, for many years PC gamers have had to install digital distribution systems to get Read more…
When I purchase an item I like having a physical thing to hold and show for my purchase. There is something about my physical CD collection that my digital one does not capture; is it all those colourful cases, the Read more…
A good thing about working in JISC CETIS is being surrounded by the wide array of interests and ideas of its staff. A bad thing about working for JISC CETIS is with its distributed nature (and the fact everybody is Read more…
I have been poking around Adam Coopers text mining weak signals in R code, and being too lazy to collect data in CSV format wondered if I could come up with something similar that used RSS feeds. I discovered it Read more…
I attended the SNA session at the CETIS conference hosted by Lorna, Sheila, Tony and Martin. Before the session I had blogged about some of the questions I had on SNA and although I think I have more new questions Read more…
Today I took part in an introduction to R workshop being held at The University of Manchester. R is a software environment for statistics and while it does all sorts of interesting things that are beyond my ability one thing that I Read more…
For a while I have been wondering about the best way of creating a how-to guide around getting data out of the JISC CETIS project directory and in particular around its linked data triple store. A few weeks ago Martin Read more…
We are 34 days away from the CETIS conference. On day two I have signed up to a session on Social Network Analysis and Data Visualisation being run by Sheila and Lorna. I’m really looking forward to the session as recently I have been Read more…
