Accidentally in Code

  • Twitter Graphs
    ,

    Twitter Graphs

    UPDATE 9/10: Insight into how this works and the rationale behind this in this post. So after my last post I received a couple of graph requests. Here’s @map_maker‘s, see how I’ve added the directionality. This one took a long time to build. She talks to a lot of people who talk to a lot…

    →: Twitter Graphs
  • Visualizing Your Twitter Network
    ,

    Visualizing Your Twitter Network

    This is what I’ve been working on lately – it graphs who you’re having a conversation with on Twitter (and who they’re having a conversation with). I’ve got some more stuff to add to it, but I’m pretty happy with how little time this has taken (coding time, perhaps 10 hours?). There were 3 phases…

    →: Visualizing Your Twitter Network

  • Why Twitter Isn’t a Pointless Waste of Time

    I love Twitter, but a lot of people seem to think it’s completely pointless. So I find myself having these conversations where I try and convince people it’s not completely stupid, actually I’ve even convinced a couple of them to give it a go. I’ve laid out my arguments below. Information Gathering There are tons…

    →: Why Twitter Isn’t a Pointless Waste of Time

  • Internet Addiction

    I’m concerned I may be addicted to the internet. Yesterday there were various news articles about a study from Taiwan and we have a list of symptoms (emphasis added): Internet addiction is usually characterized with symptoms such as spending a lot of time online, an inability to cut back on usage, a preoccupation with online…

    →: Internet Addiction

  • Information -> Data -> Meaning

    Clay Shirky wrote about this in Here Comes Everybody; the arrival of the printing press and how it changed everything. To summarize: when the printing press was invented the Church flipped out because they realized that they would no longer be in control of the information (namely, the Bible) that people had available to them.…

    →: Information -> Data -> Meaning
  • , ,

    15 Tools to make University Easier

    Subtitle: Things that Universities should tell you about, but often don’t. I’m in my 6th year at university now, and over the course of it I’ve assembled my suite of tools that maximize my productivity. When I meet people from outside of Computer Science, I’m always amazed that they haven’t heard of so many of…

    →: 15 Tools to make University Easier

  • Week in Brief

    For this week my goals were: Clubs week for WISE Organize movie night (try and delegate) TA in French, don’t meltdown Incorporate giant pile of papers into Introduction Polish introduction such that I can send it to my supervisors Coding: phase 1 ended up coding something different, but I’ve made significant progress on it Assignment…

    →: Week in Brief

  • Passive Aggressive

    I went to therapy today. Perhaps I shouldn’t admit that in a public forum, but I hope those of you that read this don’t think that seeking help when you’re struggling is something to be ashamed of. I’m not going to go into the details of what caused me to end up going to see…

    →: Passive Aggressive

  • Happiness is… being a Connector

    Marcus Buckingham is writing a great series at HuffPost at the moment exploring why women are less happy. You can find all the articles here. What The Happiest And Most Successful Women Do Differently – gave me the most to think about, although others have too (did you know – having children correlates with less…

    →: Happiness is… being a Connector