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.
Artificial Neural Networks (simply known as neural networks) come in all different shapes and sizes and can be designed to solve different types of problems. Classification, regression, supervised and unsupervised. Neural networks are incredibly versatile. It’s fair to say that neural networks are the go-to solution for any predictive task imaginable. This is especially true […]
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There is no doubt that the recent coronation of King Charles III was a massive event in the UK. Wether you’re in favour of the monarchy or not, there is no doubt that the coronation event is a big taking point. This was certainly the case on Mastodon – my preferred microblogging platform of choice. […]
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Hashtags are an important part of microblogging and are used to reach a wider audience of interested people. Much like Twitter, hashtags are also widely used on Mastodon and it’s common for users to include as many hashtags as possible in their posts to maximum the audience reach. Also, as shown in a previous post, […]
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If there is one thing you’ll probably know about me, it is that I love writing code. I do it for my job and I do it for leisure. It’s fair to say that I’ll take any opportunity I can get to get stuck into a coding problem. If you’ve read just a few of […]
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Considering the all-too-familiar with the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of contagionand something spreading from one person to the next, has been poorly understooduntil now. Adam Kucharski, a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology atthe London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, demonstrates how COVID-19(as well as other epidemics) and viral social media content behave in aremarkably […]
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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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