Tag: big data
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Chip – the Algorithmic Savings App
I came across an App, while aimlessly surfing, it’s an algorithmic savings plan. I think that is the best way to describe it, or at least its a way to describe it. The point of Chip is that when you sign up you get a savings account, held by Barclays Bank PLC, and the app…
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The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books
A new paper is out (PLoS One so free to all), lead by Alberto Acerbi (Bristol Uni), and co-authored by Vasileios Lampos (Sheffield uni), myself (Durham Uni) and R. Alexander Bentley (Bristol Uni). Its a really fun paper looking at the changing pattern in the use of emotion words in the English language during the 20th…
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First of a host of new papers on the way!
New google ngrams paper it coming soon! It should be the start of a productive few months paper wise.
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Word Diffusion in Climate Science
Our new data mining and modelling paper is out today, “Word Diffusion in Climate Science“. Investigating the diffusion of climate science words in the Google ngrams dataset. We make observation that there is often a disjoint between the findings of science and the impact it has in the public domain. This existence of a disjoint…
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Off to theODI Open Data Hack Day
Being something of a fan of big data the opening of the ODI comes with great interest. I am about to head down to London for their Open Data Hack days. Not exactly sure what to expect, haven’t been to a hack day that is like this exactly, but I am looking forward to seeing…