New (Academic) Year Resolutions 2019/20
Something about the start of the new academic year makes me reflect, far more than the start of an actual new year. Crispy September mornings make me think a...
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Our winning entry to the ONS Data Challenge 2019
We’re excited to share that we won the JGI/ONS 2019 Data Challenge. Have a look at our entry here.
On virtue-signalling, power and shame
I recently read on Twitter a thread made by a scientist. In it they spoke about they way in which they refer to people of different heritages in papers and t...
Building a reproducible analysis framework
Since starting in research I’ve learnt some home truths about reproducibility in science. Thanks some fantastic researchers (listed at the end) I’ve also be...
MQ Mental Health Science 2019
Writing this up a little late, but at the beginning of February I got to attend MQ’s Mental Health Science conference. It was a two-day conference with a hu...
Tweet Semantics in Python
One of my PhD aims will be around analysing data from Tweets using machine learning/ NLP (natural language processing, not neuro-linguistic programming – soc...
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Yes, algorithms are racist (because we are)
A journalist tweeted this week that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) said that algorithms, driven by math, are racist. Something about the way the tweet was wr...
Merging Multiple Dataframes in R
I’m publishing this on the blog in case anyone else has been facing the same problem as me and is unsure how to get around it!
Why We’re Going to Die #2
As predicted, there are more reasons we’re going to die. The tabloids just can’t resist a bit of fear and provocation in the science section.
Why We’re Going to Die #1
Now, I don’t have a particular problem with being told that we’re all going to die, mostly because I’m fairly convinced that is the way we’re headed. However...