The Moran Scale of Twitterstorms
I was asked to ‘create’ a Twitterstorm as part of an art project, and I sort of did. While this wonderful Buzzfeed post describes the stages that one goes through, in orderRead More…
I was asked to ‘create’ a Twitterstorm as part of an art project, and I sort of did. While this wonderful Buzzfeed post describes the stages that one goes through, in orderRead More…
I’ll write up the xHumed talk asap, Joseph Priestley sending this Tweet: It is my conclusion that until they can be made safe the bi-cycle must be banned from the streetsRead More…
On Friday I got round to doing something I’d been thinking of for a long while. I added location detection to my conversational psychogeography tool. Like the Is Brum Happy? system itRead More…
Just a little fun seasonal project I’ve made with the layout and design help of Gavin Wray. It works very much like my other sentiment analysis tools, but with a sprinkling of Santa’s magic.Read More…
(click through for big) Last night I turned my sentiment analysis tool on two hashtags: #bcfc and #avfc, the most widely used tags to refer to Birmingham City and Aston Villa duringRead More…
I’ve tried two experiments with the “is Birmingham happy” algorithm in the last few days, as they’re not based on place it makes more sense to use the popular term ‘sentiment analysis’Read More…
I’ve been running a, very rough, scrape of the Birmingham (UK) based interweb for ’emotional wellbeing’ since April of 2008. Simply put a script running twice a day read in Tweets, newsRead More…
While it’s not made the final shortlist of five, there’s still a bit to be proud of as Twitpanto has been made an Honoree (US spelling) in the 2010 Webby Awards inRead More…
Pleased to see the RSC Friends (a subscription group who are fans of the RSC) starting to use their blog. I did a day of training with them last year, most wereRead More…
That hail of acronyms is my way of announcing that the new site for the Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust that I’ve been consulting on is now live to theRead More…