A few days ago I started playing with dbpedia data. I had spent a while trying to find interesting people story lines to find information about. I had toyed with story lines in TV soaps and video games, but after a decision with a friend where I was introduced to Read more…
In pro wrestling a stable is a group of wrestlers who form an alliance and wrestle together, they help each other out the way typically team mates would, for example by sneaking sledgehammers in to the ring when the referees have their backed turned. When I was younger my favorite Read more…
Sometimes I am asked to do quick social network analysis for friends or family, I am quite often surprised how often people offer me their Facebook password to do the analysis! One thing you should never do give out is your Facebook password to anyone, no matter how well you Read more…
Writing about an on going conversation that you are having with someone when you haven’t quite got your head around yet is a difficult task, it does help you to think the problems through but it leaves you with a mess of a blog post. Mark and I have been Read more…
A while ago I used a combination of Facepager and R to find reoccurring phrases in the comments section of the BNP’s Facebook page. The idea was based around a conversation with a friend where I explained that I found it hard to talk to BNP supporters because I just Read more…
The Learning Locker requirements page recommends a LAMP style stack to install on, I use Mac OS X, which is close enough and because I want to keep my Apache, MySQL and PHP stuff self contained I use the free version of MAMP which is great for the most part Read more…
I wanted to find out what people were saying on the facebook pages of extreme political parties. At this stage I wasn’t bothered so much about what the party was saying, but what the comments on the posts where saying. The task was to find n-grams in a CSV file Read more…
If you want to grab comments from one post, the Graph API Explorer might be easier. I’ve been trying to find ways to poke the Facebook graph that will be easy for people who find working with the API directly difficult and currently I am using a tool called Facepager Read more…
Our research department is currently housing a student from a different instition who is interested in mobile learning. She has just finished her doctorate in a Spanish university and is about to head home to China. During a welcome meeting our guest proclaimed an interested in mobile learning and Learning Read more…
During my experiments to compare different groups of users on Twitter, I decided it might be fun to borrow some of this code for my random storytelling project. The idea was simple, I’d steal random lines from Twitter, work out the most popular replies and then put them in my Read more…
