Guest Blog Post: Inferring Wellbeing from Spotify
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You can read an update about the Mood Music study on inferring wellbeing from Spotify here, on a guest blog post I wrote for the Jean Golding Institute.
Nina Di Cara
PhD student, researching mental health on social media
- University of Bristol
- Github
- Google Scholar
- ORCID
Paper-a-day bot with no code required
3 minute read
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This year I wanted to have a go at a paper-a-day challenge; reading one paper every (working) day. Over the last year I have been building up a list of papers ‘to-read’ but never getting around to them, and generally not making reading much of a priority when other things have been busy. Trying to read a paper a day seems (probably naively) like a good way to quickly get through some of my outstanding reading lists, and prepare for doing a lot more thesis writing over the next year or so.
Setting up GitHub Actions for a Django project
8 minute read
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I’ve been hoping to use my current work on the Mood Music project to test out GitHub Actions for continuous integration (CI). There are a few extra steps needed for the Django set up because of databases etc so this is a little guide to save my future self the pain of figuring it all out again.
Useful Python to R translations
3 minute read
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After spending 3 months on a Python project (see the COVID-19 community map here!) I’ve gone back to an R project that I started in 2019. After getting used to using Python there have been a few functions that I’ve really missed in R, so I’ve collected a few substitutes that I’ve found.
The COVID-19 Community Support Map
2 minute read
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While the pandemic has derailed a lot of plans we have had the opportunity to work on a project with Public Health Wales, developing a novel data visualisation platform that helps identify vulnerable communities in Wales.