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New Position – Search Engineer at Cookpad

In January I’ll be taking up a position as a Search Engineer at Cookpad, the world’s largest recipe sharing service.
Jan 28, 2019 1 min read

Our work on the NCRM Methods podcast

Our work on political news sharing communities with Hywel Williams and Iulia Cioroianu was recently featured in an episode of the NCRM Methods podcast, courtesy of a great interview with Iulia.
Jan 2, 2017 1 min read

New Position – Data Scientist / AI Engineer at Adarga

In January I’ll be taking up a position as a Data Scientist and AI Engineer at Adarga, an AI startup based in Bristol.
Dec 15, 2016 1 min read

Our work in Royal Society Open Science and the London Evening Standard

Our work with Mirco Musolesi is now published open access in Royal Society Open Science ( DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160196), and was recently covered in the London Evening Standard. For more on this work…
Jul 12, 2016 1 min read

New position – Industry-Funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Exeter

I’ll be taking up a position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. More information soon.
Mar 10, 2016 1 min read

ICWSM 2016 paper accepted – Pub crawling at scale: Tapping Untappd to explore social drinking

Our paper with Luca Rossi, Gareth Tyson, and Martin Chorley has been accepted for the main track at ICWSM 2016.
Mar 9, 2016 1 min read

WWW 2016 paper accepted – Measuring urban social diversity using interconnected geo-social networks

Our paper with Desi Hristova, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, and Pietro Panzarasa has been accepted for the main track at WWW 2016. Update: Additional coverage of this work at WIRED UK (and podcast episode), Independent, Phys.
Dec 16, 2015 1 min read

Visiting Researcher at UCL

From June 2015 I will be a visiting researcher at UCL’s Department of Geography.
May 31, 2015 1 min read

ICWSM 2015 paper accepted – Privacy and the city: User identification and location semantics in location-based social networks

Our paper with Luca Rossi, Christoph Stich, and Mirco Musolesi has been accepted at ICWSM 2015. PDF to follow.
Mar 10, 2015 1 min read

Cardiff NHS Hack Day 2015

This weekend I’ve been building a health data visualisation webapp at the Cardiff NHS hackathon! It was put together with Will Webberley, Martin Chorley, Glyn Mottershead, and a bunch of talented Cardiff Computational Journalism students!
Jan 24, 2015 1 min read