After writing a significant piece of work, I have in the past tried to create visualizations of the citation patterns within the writing. This may be done by drawing upon the citations in the literature and their linkages to sections of
On the morning of Thursday February 4, 2016 all faculty, staff and students were alerted to an emergency situation on Vancouver Island University’s Nanaimo campus. The alerts came through our desktop alerts system which provided information on the situation on
Working with, combining and manipulating data is becoming increasingly important across all sectors. I would love to be involved in the formulation of an interdisciplinary data science curriculum. With so many now open data sources, I am confident students could come up with
We were fortunate to have two guest presentations this week from speakers from industry. What I particularly enjoyed from both presentations was the generous sharing of what collaborative tools were being used to support their businesses and how they were
Last blog post for the year 2011! Someone asked me recently; UCT OpenContent has grown quite significantly over the past year (we now have 164 OER’s shared from UCT!), where are all of these resources hosted? Since we don’t
This work was inspired by the “Anatomy of the Osama Tweet“, in which the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death spreads just before it was officially announced by U.S. President Obama. Naturally the original speculative tweet spread virally through Twitter. My colleague Andrew Deacon and I have undertaken a similar analysis of information flows during […]
I have continued exploring ways in which one can visualize Facebook networks. Here I have used the Netvizz application to extract networks of people who have joined a particular Facebook group. You can get access to group network data for any group that you are a member of. I decided to examine the ‘UCT – […]
I should be working on my thesis right now. Ok, now that I have gotten that out of the way. I wanted to share a small project I have been working on in visualizing my social network on Facebook. Your own personal social graph can quite easily be exported from Facebook using the Netvizz application. […]
The Learning and Knowledge Analytics 2011 course (#LAK11) came to a close last Friday. It has been another wonderful massive open online course (MOOC), in which I learned quite a bit about the burgeoning areas of educational analytics, big data, and social network analysis. The MOOC speaker list identified key players in these spaces, thereby […]
I am reflecting on Learning and Knowledge Analytics Week 4: Tools for, and examples of, analytics. I have fallen a bit behind in the course, but hope to still complete the last two weeks. Although data analytics seem to have penetrated the world of business quite dramatically, they do not seem to have had as […]