8 years ago I was heading in to summer working hard on my MSc project. My head space was completely absorbed in it for two reasons. 1) It was a interesting subject, 2) I didn’t want to think about what happens next. The whole looking for a job after University Read more…
I’ve recently been recording the screen of my Raspberry Pi to show a friend how to do various things on it, I’ve been asked to share my technique for screen recording. The truth is that I am not actually running any recording software on the Pi itself, I have set Read more…
Incremental Games are a recently recognised genre of video game that is popular on mobile phones and browser game sites such as Kongregate with the simple goal to earn as much ‘currency as possible. The currency itself can take many forms, but is basically an integer that is increased by Read more…
I’m currently trying to write scripts for Google Apps that poke around with Reddit API and save results in Google Spreadsheets. I’m finding hard to learn both the Reddit API and Google Scripts at the same time (despite much appreciated help from @mhawksey and @brucemcpherson) . In an attempt to Read more…
Similar to my last *nix style project I wanted to write something in Python that could interact with Reddit and can be ran from a Raspberry Pi. At this stage I only wanted to see what was possible and start early, so I borrowed some code to make a bot Read more…
I recently wanted to a CSV of questions and answers in to a Twitter account that tweeted questions followed by the correct answers every hour like so: My CSV looks like this when opened in excel. There are 5 columns in each row, the first of which is the question, Read more…
Yesterday I had a chat with old Cetis friend Sheila, we got on to the conversation of visualising text, something I am really interested in but also really struggle with. Sheila had been playing with Textexture a tool to visualise any text as a network, I was intrigued by Sheila’s Read more…
Exploring your social media networks with Graphing tools such as Gephi is quite easy, the hardest part is working out what you want to explore and how you will get the data. As a starting point I’ve collected a few simple recipes for network graphs. I’ve done all these on Read more…
The times we realise how much we really miss our grandparents are the times we know that we really need emotional support. The department I am working in is closing, which is a curious sentence to write for me, because at 30 I still don’t really feel like I have Read more…
This doesn’t tell you how many people of that profession there are, it tells you how many people of that profession are in Wikipedia, with structured data on both the persons birthplace and profession. It might tell us as much about how Wikipedia is being used as how many people Read more…
