Some posts about my life as a data scientist. Postings prior to 2017, not all of which are included here, are hosted on my old Wordpress.com blog.

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print “Hello world!” Permalink

31 July 2009

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I attended the Science 2.0 event at the mars centre yesterday and I was inspired by many of the speakers.  Over the next several days I will try to explain m...

Knowledge Forum 4.8 update Permalink

09 January 2009

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This week marks my return to full-time work on Knowledge Forum 4.8. I have made a flurry of check-ins to the code to make the communications protocol far mo...

On being cited Permalink

16 October 2008

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A couple of months ago I received email from Angelique Dimitracopoulou asking to use a couple of images from an article of mine from the CSCL 2007 proceeding...

From Tork to Vis in 4 Steps Permalink

15 October 2008

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Via an RSS feed from Nathan Torkington’s blog: http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/2008/10/12/cybernetics-quotes/ to http://www.well.com/user/abs/curriculum...

Plurk: microblogging meets visualization Permalink

15 October 2008

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At a recent meeting of the Brett/Hewitt research group, Joan Touzet mentioned Plurk. I’m starting to get the notion that when Joan mentions a new technology...