Illustrating PhD research projects
As one part of the official opening of the new Hardiman Research Building at NUI Galway, there was a showcase of some of the 250 PhD research projects the building now houses. To give some sense of the breadth of the projects, and the diversity of the researchers working on them, I used the project titles along with the researcher… | Read on »
NUI Galway Citation Network – Data Visualisation
A work-in-progress interactive visualisation of a citation network (graph) of the College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies, and Business, Public Policy & Law. It shows co-authored publications listed by researchers across the Colleges’ various disciplines. This is a (very) rough first pass using data that displays over 5900 people, and the co-authorship connections… | Read on »
Data Visualisation: Primary Schools in Ireland
I’ve put an early version of some data visualisation work I’ve been playing with up at schools.davidkelly.ie. I’ve been interested in the types of open data that are available in Ireland, and because primary schools are something we’ve been looking at anyway, it seemed like a good place to start experimenting. I found data published by… | Read on »
Front-end development – CodeNinja.ie Talk
As one of the workshops for this year’s CodeNinja.ie competition, I gave a talk on front-end web development. It looks at some of current trends in front-end development, my workflow, and interesting front-end technologies (especially those of use to the students taking part in competition).
Bringing Bizcamp to Galway, Sept 2010
For the first time, Bizcamp is being run in Galway this September 11th. I’ve been to those run in Dublin and Limerick in the past, and they’ve been a worthwhile trip. It can be a great place to meet mix of like-minded people – from those who have been through the mill of setting up… | Read on »
091Labs has a new home
Congrats to the 091Labs guys on putting this together, it looks like a great space with some massive potential. Their new home is in Foster Street in Galway. Nice work!
Cleanternet
Heh. More at cleanternet.org (via TJ McIntyre)
The Future of Publishing (Video)
Very clever video released by Penguin Books, there’s more information on how it came about on their site
Us Now
I’ve been posting quite a view videos recently, which is strange because I don’t spend that much time watching them online….but I thought this one was worth sharing. It’s a documentary about new forms of collaboration and social media technologies. I came to it via a tweet by @marklittlenews last night. It seems to have… | Read on »
Galway
Galway, New Years Day, 2010 Came across this great video – someone in Failte Ireland or Look West should be giving him money for it and using it to promote Galway.