I’ll be attending the 29th European Conference on Operational Research – more simply, Euro 2018 – in Valencia this summer. I’m not giving a presentation, but as I’ll be attending on behalf of OVO I’d be particularly keen to talk to anyone with experience of applying OR techniques in the energy industry. At a personal …
I will be attending Analytics 2015 in November, where some work at BA will be presented: Using Text Mining and Natural Language Processing to Automate the Classification of Passenger Complaints.
Some of my dissertation work on data visualisation is now in use by the National Records of Scotland: Top 20 boys’ names, 2002 – 2014 and Top 20 girls’ names, 2002 – 2014 More info Life Expectancy at Birth, Scotland and its Council areas 2011-2013 More info
My MSc dissertation is available for download here, as a 7.54Mb PDF. Here’s the abstract: This project explores the use of interactive visualisations to augment the extensive data published by the National Records of Scotland. Good visualisation can illustrate key trends in statistical data, increasing impact and accessibility; great visualisation can go further, and enable …
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Given my previous anthroponomastical adventures I knew I’d want to play around with the popular names datasets during my project. Whilst I should only be thinking about visualisation rather than analysis, spend enough time compiling values from two dozen Excel files and you’ll inevitably start noticing patterns (even when they aren’t really there). So this …
A month in, I am starting to produce my own d3 visualisations essentially from scratch. This example is an interactive version of Figure 2.4 from The Registrar General’s Annual Review of Demographic Trends (158th Edition). The user can select from many more years, but as only one is shown at a time clutter is reduced …
For the dissertation component of my MSc I’ll be working with the National Records of Scotland on a project entitled Data Visualisation of Scottish Demographic Information. Here’s a first dip into the world of D3, lightly adapted from these examples of chord diagrams. The data shown are Migration flows between Council areas for 2011-12 (most …
For the 2013/14 academic year I’ll be back at the University of Edinburgh, to take part in the Operational Research MSc. This page will track my progress through the course!