Universities need more than off-the-shelf AI solutions
This post was originally published on the LSE Impact Blog.
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Empowering research software
This blog was originally published in Social Science Space.
Why learning from digital texts is still a challenge?
Ebooks have been around since late 70s with Project Gutenberg, and became a commercially available format as early as the internet enabled monetary exchanges...
Developing a comprehensive directory of tools and technologies for social science research methods
This post originally appeared on FORRT’s Educators Corner
The challenges of running social science experiments from home - and 14 tools that can help
This post originally appeared on SAGE Ocean
Unbundling the remote quantitative methods academic: Coolest tools to support your teaching
This post originally appeared on SAGE Ocean
Turning COVID-19 into a data visualization exercise for your students
This post originally appeared on SAGE Ocean
From preprocessing to text analysis: 80 tools for mining unstructured data
Text mining techniques have become critical for social scientists working with large scale social data, be it Twitter collections to track polarization, part...
What I learned from mining researcher questions
I decided to get into text mining. Considering that I have basic programming skills, and I want to do some text mining for academic purposes, plus I’ve alrea...
How to find and use academic research if you don’t have access
Perhaps because I work for an academic publisher, but whenever I meet a founder, or a product manager, they always ask me what’s the latest academic research...
Using and developing software in social science and humanities research
This blog was originally published on SAGE Ocean
A light introduction to research data management
Demystifying the terms
The ethics of AI and working with data at scale: what are the experts saying
This post originally appeared on SAGE Ocean
Who’s disrupting transcription in academia?
This blog was originally published on SAGE Ocean
Social scientists working with LinkedIn data
This post originally appeared on SAGE Ocean
Matchmaking tools: Augmenting the relationship between research and industry
This post originally appeared on SAGE Ocean
Turing Data Futures: AI for government policies and social justice
Last week I attended my second Turing lecture, and it didn’t disappoint. I heard from two incredible researchers about different uses of AI and predictive an...
I thought cartoons were no longer sexist
Well I was wrong.
Virtual reality headsets for testing and research
This post originally appeared on SAGE Ocean in anticipation of the immersive event.
Roundup: #text2data - new ways of reading
This post originally appeared on SAGE Ocean
Creativity vs Innovation
A few days ago I attended a fantastic workshop with a group of innovators from across corporate London, where the facilitators encouraged us to think about t...
Virtual reality: the future of experimental social research?
This post originally appeared on SAGE Ocean
50+ women to follow in computational social science
This post originally appeared on SAGE Ocean
39 women doing amazing research in computational social science
This post originally appeared on SAGE Ocean
Courage, where is it?
I never thought of what courage was or whether I had any until I volunteered to speak at The Quarter Club a few weeks ago. It was an incredible experience! A...
Five practical ways to promote innovation
(with examples)
Research data shared service is well into alpha
This post originally appeared on Jisc Research Data
Highlights from research data services - market research
This post originally appeared on Jisc Research Data
Four errors that will stifle the most extraordinary university innovation
I sometimes find myself in helpless situations when, as a business manager, I focus on business modelling, market research and UX design to test the idea or ...
Fifty shades of yellow
…and the artists that changed our world
Where are we with open research data infrastructures in the UK?
This post originally appeared on Jisc Research Data
Helping the world, one painting at a time
Modern masterpieces have big messages. About good and evil. Right and wrong. They challenge political establishments. Or the inhumane acts of this world. Mod...
Five research equipment booking systems reviewed
This post originally appeared on Efficiency Exchange
First look at Obsessions with Jude Law
Old Vic meets Young Vic meets musical meets movie…
How to value a painting
…for beginners
Market research for a research data shared service
This post originally appeared on Jisc Research Data
What is everyone saying about research software?
This post originally appeared on Jisc Research Data
Sharing research equipment: how can we do it better?
This post originally appeared on Efficiency Exchange
Five female artists today
Last year someone asked me who inspired me. And I had mostly male painters on my mind. Since then, I made it a habit to pay attention to the female artists. ...
Research data in the creative and performing arts
Around this time last year, I started to consciously collect research data while I was creating the pieces for my first UK art exhibition. Having done some w...
PASIG NYC: the other side of preservation
This post originally appeared on Jisc Research Data
Three activities to spice up sizeable workshops
We have all been to workshops that last a whole day, but feel more like a week. Whilst the information we gain from these events is incredible, and the peopl...
Three things I learned this week: serendipity, genome data and Viagra™
It is a real pity to live in a big city and not take advantage of the long list of shows, seminars, lectures and networking events, especially when they are ...
Research data spring
This post originally appeared on Jisc Research Data
A crazy yellow theory - the vernissage
Last Friday was incredible. It was beyond my expectations. Thank you all for coming and contributing to an unforgettable opening night for my first solo exhi...
Dear commuters,
Like many of you, I find myself on autopilot every morning. I look at my phone, or gaze at the road just barely noticing anything or anyone. I am focused on ...
Science and Innovation 2016 Conference
This post originally appeared on Jisc Research Data
How to be a great artist
A few things are coming to mind. I am reading: “What are you looking at? 150 years of modern art in the blink of an eye” by Will Gompertz whilst trying to fi...
6 experiments to explain everyday life
If you love deep conversations and intellectual challenges, then you must have used a gamut of theories and thought experiments that explain our every day...
How to be happy in London
Smile, Smile more, Smile at everyone, Smile a lot even if it’s not sunny.
The meaning of yellow roses
Yellow roses back home are a sign of parting. We give yellow flowers to people that are about to leave our lives for ever. We bring yellow flowers to funeral...
Creativity GYM
or how to train the crazy creative inside us
What’s that crazy yellow theory?
In a chaotic time, I sit in my studio flat. I try to relax. It’s been a long day at work. Loads of projects. Loads of people. Everyone wants some attention. ...
Printmaking with #christieslates
Today was my second time at #ChristiesLates, and although I expected that, just like with any other event series, it would be the same thing. It was absolute...
Working on a bad habit that I want to keep
Ok, so I have a full time job which I really like and I am really passionate about. And as everyone else, I am exhausted when I get back home after work. So ...
What art-ful meditation does to a scientist
I was helping a friend with her personal statement for med school when I came across a very interesting word document in my old grad school application fo...
Allow me
Allow me The king of social media To tell you What’s right and wrong In this world.
About efficiency and creativity
There are many contradictory quotes and common understandings about creativity, efficiency, cleanliness and mess. If you abide by some and not the others, it...
The author
(2009)
Hate
Lead runs through your veins Instead of neurons you have chains your clothes are dirty with hydrogen your soul so cold, it fries in liquid nitrogen. You slee...
Time?
If I could measure time not in terms of seconds, minutes, hours or days. Just think about it, if I could measure time not in terms of seconds, minutes, hours...
Suferinzi (the ones who suffer)
Suferinzi (the ones who suffer) is a poem I wrote back in 2007.
I n I forever loing jah
Honorable mention at the MacKnight Black Poetry Competition in 2009.
Achieving efficiencies and sharing assets and equipment across UK universities
This post originally appeared on Jisc Research Data
Refining the brightest and best new ideas in research data management
This post originally appeared on Research Information