Talks

How we successfully transitioned the search system for the world’s largest recipe sharing platform to a modern stack – including …

Cookpad’s recipe search helps cooks everywhere find tasty dishes to cook within an ever-growing catalogue of six million recipes created by everyday cooks. As a global recipe search with over 40m monthly users – optimising search quality is a critical and challenging task.

Experiment with term embeddings for automated query expansion in Elasticsearch.

Next Wednesday (24 Oct) I’ll be giving a talk, “ML in Action: Software Engineering Meets Data Science”, to MSc Data Science students at the University of Exeter. Thanks to Hywel Williams for the kind invitation.

Next Monday (23 April) I’ll be giving a talk, “Technical debts in real-world machine learning systems”, to MSc Data Science students at the University of Bath. Thanks to Ken Cameron for the kind invitation.

I’ll be giving a talk at PyDiff, a monthly meetup for Cardiff’s Python User Group. The topic is mining online platforms (specifically, Github and Meetup) to understand the UK’s digital tech clusters.

I will be attending and presenting at MoN 14. Abstract: While recent advances in the modelling of spatial and temporal networks have enabled more-accurate descriptions of many real-world systems, existing approaches do not capture the combined constraint that space and time impose on the relationships and interactions present in a spatio-temporal network.

I will be attending and presenting at NetSci 2015 in Zaragoza, Spain, June 1-5 2015.

I will be giving a talk at the Tackling Epidemics Face On evening that’s part of the Birmingham Pint of Science Festival. The talk will be on Tuesday 19th May at the Jekyll & Hyde.

I will be presenting at the one-day Data Natives event being held at City University London on Fri 15th May 2015. I’ll be talking about my current research on the analysis of robustness in real-world spatio-temporal networks.

Presentation of a webapp (the LMTF) I developed with LASAGNE research project partners. The LMTF allows translation of popular multilayer network datasets into the LASAGNE data format.

I recently gave a talk at the inaugural Cardiff Django Weekend. It was a very successful weekend, and my first experience of a developer conference. The talk itself was on meta-programming in Python, showing some of the powerful built-in features Python has for reflection and (to an extent) self-modification.

Guest lecture given to Problem Solving with Python first-year undergraduate students.

Initial results from an ongoing Foursquare data collection project that Martin Chorley and I are collaborating on. Focuses on initial analyses and visualisations of Foursquare checkins in Cardiff. See below for a rough animation of checkins generated from this data.

An Ignite talk on a five week experiment to see if I could switch handedness (I’m naturally right-hand dominant). Ignite talks last exactly 5 minutes and consist of 20 slides which auto-advance every 15 seconds.

A concise high-level introduction to Python.

An overview of some research from social networks and anthropology, mostly focusing on Robin Dunbar’s work on social relationships. Also discusses research on social relationships in MMORPGs.