Tagged
Everything currently filed under archive.
2013
I wanted structured data about Coronation Street and Fandom does not have DBpedia. Infoboxes are still in there, so I wrote a Python scraper, then later pointed a Haar cascade at a clip to see if it could tell Emma from Steve.
Soap-opera wikis, infoboxes, a Python crawl, and a face detector pointed at Coronation Street.
2019
A veterinary case as a text adventure. Lennox Harlowe was written in Twine, put into Cordova so it could run on a phone, and there is a Unity/Fungus 2D version in another repo.
A vet case written as a branching story, then wrapped so it can run on a phone.
2021
My PhD. I ran collaborative workshops where people used open-source stats on digital footprints, hoping they’d get a feel for what data-driven organisations actually do with their data. Teaching the methods bored most people. Showing wrestling tag-team graphs to wrestling fans worked better. University of Bolton, 2021.
Open-source stats, digital footprints, and wrestling graphs, trying to make surveillance feel real enough to talk about.
2014
I pulled wrestling stables out of Wikipedia via DBpedia, mapped who had been teammates, and posted the giant graphs on Reddit. Wrestling fans spotted missing Ric Flair, argued about stables versus factions, and the messy Wikipedia data turned out to be the interesting bit.
Wrestling stables, Wikipedia, and a giant network map that Reddit fact-checked.