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Moving on
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 Read more…
Raspberry pi
Screen Recording Pi / Access Raspberry Pi Desktop Remotely
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 Read more…
Big Data
Incremental games
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 Read more…
Data Analytics
Finding text matches in Reddit comments
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 Read more…
Playing
A quick Reddit autoreply bot
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 Read more…
Playing
Creating a Twitter Question/Revision Bot
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 Read more…
Data visualisation
Visualising Blog comments
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 Read more…
Big Data
Creating Twitter Graphs of Friends using twecoll and Gephi
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 Read more…
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Redundancy
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 Read more…
Data Analytics
Problems with quick Wikipedia heatmaps of birth locations
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 Read more…
