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The Rise of Transparent Data Journalism – The BuzzFeed Tennis Match Fixing...
The news today was lead in part by a story broken by the BBC and BuzzFeed News – The Tennis Racket – about match fixing in Grand Slam tennis tournaments. (The BBC contribution seems to have been done...
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Programmer Employability – Would HE Prepare You for a Guardian Developer Job...
A post on the Guardian developer blog – The Guardian’s new pairing exercises – describes part of the recruitment process used by the Guardian when appointing new developers: candidates are paired with...
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Running Docker Container Compositions in the Cloud on Digital Ocean
With TM351 about to start, I thought I’d revisit the docker container approach to delivering the services required by the course to see if I could get something akin to the course software running in...
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What’s On the Horizon in the Jupyter Ecosystem?
Having been given a “visioning” role for a new level 1 course in production, I’ve started trying to make sense of what an online, or at least, virtual, computing and IT lab might look like for use in...
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Going Round in Circles… or Iterating?
Listening to F1 technical pundit Gary Anderson on a 2014 panel (via Joe Saward) about lessons from F1 for business, I was struck by his comment that “motor racing is about going round in...
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Wondering if Life Would be Easier With an OU – or FutureLearn – Compute Stick…?
A few days ago I came across a project that has been looking at digital preservation, and in particular the long term archiving of “functional” digital objects, such as software applications: bwFLA —...
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Using Vagrant to Launch OpenRefine Running in a Linux VM on Linode
A few days ago I saw Jim Groom having fun getting Sandstorm,io running on VM hosts Linode. I haven’t tried running full VMs on remote servers yet, so I thought have a quick look to see if I could get...
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Tagging Twitter Users From Their Twitter Bios Using OpenCalais and Alchemy API
Prompted by a request at the end of last week for some Twitter data I no longer have to hand, I revisited an old notebook script to try to tidy up some of my Twitter data grabbin’n’mungin’ scripts and...
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More Observations on the ONS JSON Feeds – Returning Bulletin Text as Data
Whilst starting to sketch out some python functions for grabbing the JSON data feeds from the new ONS website, I also started wondering how I might be able to make use of them in a simple slackbot that...
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Chatting With ONS Data Via a Simple Slack Bot
A recent post on the ONS Digital blog – Dueling with datasets – describes some of the design decisions taken when putting together the new Office for National Statistics website (such as having a...
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