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.
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!
Attending NHS Hack Day Cardiff
I’ll be at this year’s NHS Hack Day Cardiff to build something cool with Martin Chorley, Will Webberley, and some Computational Journalism students.
NHS Hack Day Cardiff Sat 24-25 January 2015 Website |Â Registration
Program Committee ICWSM 2015 (Oxford, UK)
I am a member of the Technical Program Committee for the next ICWSM. Please consider submitting.
ICWSM 2015 in Oxford, UK
Abstracts Due: January 18, 2015 Full Papers Due: January 23, 2015 Main Conference: May 26-29, 2015
Attending SINS 2014
I’ll be attending SINS'14 (Social Impact through Network Science) at Lake Como, Italy on 14-17 October 2014.
Post-workshop update: Here’s a photo from beautiful Lake Como.
Attending Workshop on Computational Models of Social Interaction
I’ll be attending the Workshop on Computational Models of Social Interaction at University of Birmingham. To be held on 9th October 2014.
Academic Genealogy
I compiled and designed an academic genealogy graphic and had it printed and framed as a gift. Here’s how I did it. Materials for you to do your own, including scripts and an example design, are available in this repository on GitHub. You’ll likely need some familiarity with Python syntax.
Motion tracking with the Parrot AR.Drone Quadrocopter
One of the toys that the Computing Club has to play with is an AR.Drone 1.0. This is a pre-built WiFi-enabled quadrocopter manufactured by Parrot. There are official iOS and Android applications for remotely controlling the quadrocopter.
2013 "Open Sauce" Hackathon Round-up
Last weekend’s “Open Sauce” Hackathon was a big success. In addition to the funding I mentioned in my previous post, GitHub also got in touch a day before the event to bolster each prize category with one-year bronze and silver accounts.
Open Sauce Hackathon 2013
Last year I attended the inaugural School of Computer Science & Informatics “Open Sauce” Hackathon as a participant. It was a hugely successful event, and good fun to work with Mark and Chris in building Motion Kitty Pi, a prototype Spotify home music streaming service for Raspberry Pi (with motion-triggered playback!