I’m an academic in the UK researching Network Science and Social Computing. I enjoy scraping, analysing and visualising data and social networks. In my free time, I like to explore the outdoors, mountain climbing, cycling, running and attending church. I think of myself as an all-round nerd.
I’ve had a website for a good 10+ years or so now, and I’ve come to use a lot of web development tools in that time. This includes everything from coding in pure HTML to using CMSs such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. I’ve also come to use some static site generators on and off […]
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In the previous post, I talked about some of the software I use every day for performing data science related tasks. In my case, the vast majority of the time I use the software to perform social network analysis (my area of expertise) as well other generic data science tasks (such as scraping and data […]
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Like most data scientists and researchers, I spend most of my day in front of a computer. Most of the time, I’m either writing, reading or coding something exciting up. Over the past couple of years as a researcher / academic / data scientist, I’ve come to use a lot of software. Some fancy, others […]
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On Saturday, Wales and England fans watched their team’s playing against each other in the famous Six Nations rugby match in Cardiff. As always, this receives a lot of attention on social media as fans provide a running commentary and develop conversation with others. To understand how these conversations are formed over time, this blog […]
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In a previous post, I walked through the basics on how to import a network into Gephi using a spreadsheet. As shown, this is an easy way to import data into Gephi in the form of a list of edges. As mentioned before, this method is also ideal if you’re working with external sources (e.g. […]
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I’m still relatively new to Mastodon and, so far, I love it. Ever since Twitter started going down hill (for reasons which I won’t cover yet again) I have used Mastodon as my go-to microblogging platform of choice. I’ve been on Mastodon for a couple of months now, and I’m on the lookout for new […]
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Gephi, is an amazing piece of software for building and visualising different types of network. It is considered the go-to software for network analytics and visualisation and is widely used by those who study social networks, such as myself. I use Gephi almost on a daily basis. As well as producing some amazing visuals, Gephi […]
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While Mastodon is still a relatively new platform (especially compared to other platform like Twitter) it is filled with a thriving community of people who love to share their knowledge and express their options. I thought I would take a closer look at a topic which always appears to be part of a conversation somewhere. […]
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