You can create virtual world for the Oculus Rift and host it on the web very easily. It’s free and works on Windows and Mac OS X. I won’t go in to detail in to this post, but this is how I set my environment up and got something working Read more…
Recently I’ve been playing with an R wrapper for a machine language library called Mallet to generate lists of topics from a series of text documents. The technique is called Topic Modelling and I have gotten to grips with it from Ben Marwick‘s readings of archaeology papers which has some Read more…
As of late I’ve been playing with lots of techniques to churn through a corpus of information related to me that I have scraped from the web. Many of these techniques pull back topics, phrases, documents and tell me that they have been identified as important; it is then left Read more…
My Oculus Rift arrived and I’ve had a go at translating the Personal Corpus to a 3d World. I’ve not really got very far at the moment but the hope is to be read information from the users personal corpus and let them experiment with it in real time. To Read more…
Tesco is selling a tablet named ‘The Hudl’, a challenger to the Amazon Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7. The Hudl is priced at £119, slightly more expensive than the Kindle but a little cheaper than the Nexus 7. It runs Android 4.2 and comes with 16GB storage has a Read more…
A few days ago I had a shot at looking at my topic models for a cybernetics list through Gephi. I’m not sure I got much from the experience but it did point out to me that quite often the topics were a mix of people and ‘things’. I wanted Read more…
Not so long ago I noticed that I am in fact the last person left to discover Topic Modelling/LDA techniques, I have had a mad dash to catch up and get my head around them. Up until now I’ve spent my time simply getting the technique to work. I started Read more…
Recently I have following some chatter around the data generated around ourselves, Mark blogged about a personal corpus and I enjoyed this post about a person as an API . The central theme I’ve taken from these posts is around things that tell us about ourselves using data we weren’t even aware we were Read more…
Recently a user at reddit wrote a post to scrape R comments; I had a play with it here. Today I had a very quick play of combining some stuff I’ve written for the Personal Corpus examination tool with the function I borrowed. I found it interesting but I haven’t posted Read more…
Around this time every year all my feeds are full of fantasy football teams. I wanted to join in; but I can’t be bothered with football. Instead I’ve created a fantasy team of data exploration tools. Looking back at my team these probably aren’t the best tools, they are just Read more…
