I volenteered to help write a briefing paper on analytic tools in the hope of stealing some time to play with cool stuff. The joy of having some play time in work quickly evaporated when it struck me that not only is there a very large number of tools but also that they come from [...]
Those who subscribe to the CETIS newsletter will receive the top posts of the month ranked by the total number of views they've had, while its nice to see what our audience find interesting sometimes we have our own personal favourites that we'd like to share. I asked CETIS staff if they wanted to share [...]
Whether you’re trying to flog wares, advertise consultancy skills or simply have a big ego; it seems that we all want to abuse social media for a cause. I find it interesting that we all choose to use different social media services and guess that our strategy depends on on many factors such as what [...]
As those who followed the Game Group administration story earlier this year know, purchasing physical media for games is on the way out. This isn't a recent thing, for many years PC gamers have had to install digital distribution systems to get their hands on the the latest games.
The most popular PC gaming distribution system is [...]
When I purchase an item I like having a physical thing to hold and show for my purchase. There is something about my physical CD collection that my digital one does not capture; is it all those colourful cases, the fancy sleeve artwork, the smell of a new cd or am I just a hoarder? [...]
A good thing about working in JISC CETIS is being surrounded by the wide array of interests and ideas of its staff. A bad thing about working for JISC CETIS is with its distributed nature (and the fact everybody is always so busy!) it is always not possible to sit down and have a good [...]
I have been poking around Adam Coopers text mining weak signals in R code, and being too lazy to collect data in CSV format wondered if I could come up with something similar that used RSS feeds. I discovered it was really easy to read and start to mine RSS feeds in R, but there [...]
I attended the SNA session at the CETIS conference hosted by Lorna, Sheila, Tony and Martin. Before the session I had blogged about some of the questions I had on SNA and although I think I have more new questions than answers I feel like things are much clearer now. My mind is still [...]
Today I took part in an introduction to R workshop being held at The University of Manchester. R is a software environment for statistics and while it does all sorts of interesting things that are beyond my ability one thing that I can grasp and enjoy is exploring all the packages that are available for R, these packages extend [...]
For a while I have been wondering about the best way of creating a how-to guide around getting data out of the JISC CETIS project directory and in particular around its linked data triple store. A few weeks ago Martin Hawksy posted some great examples of work he’s been doing, including maps using data generated [...]
