Technology
Using RStudio to poke Linked Data
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.
Technology
Doing SQL statements in R
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 with data frame names. While this might not be a Read more…
Technology
Doing more in R and less in Google Refine
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 endpoint on the web, put it into google refine, exported Read more…
Computer Games
Neighbours the Videogame
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 Video game that was released on the Commodore 64 in Read more…
Computer Games
Murder Miner
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 favourite mode is called Zombie and starts of with simple Read more…
Computer Games
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
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 called something like 10 minute hero which I think made Read more…
Technology
Visualising Linked Data
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 graph in Gephi. I’ve explored the relationship between members of Read more…
