Last week, I posted a quick demo of how to visualise data stored in a Google spreadsheet in Many Eyes Wikified (HEFCE Grant Funding, in Pictures). The data I used was the latest batch of HEFCE teaching funding data, but Joss soon tweeted to say he’d got Research funding data up on Google sprea...

One of the things that attracts me to serialised feeds (as well as confusing the hell out of me) is the possibility of letting people subscribe to, and add, comments in “relative time”… … that is, as well as viewing the content via a serialised feed, the comments feed should ...

For the first time we are holding a predictive ADME and Toxicology workshop in Oxford this summer.  It should be a valuable and rewarding experience that adds to our summer workshop activities there.  I believe we have a really good group of facilitators gathered that should make for an ...

Chatting to Simon Perry of the Ventnor Blog over a pint at the Yarbridge Inn last week, he mentioned that recording of the Isle of Wight Council Planning Committee were available on the Isle of Wight Council website, albeit in an obfuscated and hard to find way (you know the sort of thing: a full st...

I provide below a schedule for the upcoming InnovationWell and eCheminfo Community of Practice meetings at Bryn Mawr. I also include a location map here which may be useful upon arrival: Download bryn_mawr_campus_map_douglas_connect_meeting.pdf [Please follow continuation here to view schedule.] Che...

Scientists replicate traffic-jam “shockwaves” in real-world experiment This is fascinating to watch: A team of Japanese researchers have created “shockwave traffic jams” that replicate the dynamics of real-world highways. For 15 years, researchers have known that traffic jams...

I'm a sucker for unusual visual representations and Grayson Perry's 'Map of an Englishman' (below) is certainly unusual. Grayson, of course, is the eccentric Turner Prize winning artist from Essex who is perhaps more famous for his transvestite alter-ego 'Claire' than he is for his celebrated cerami...

En guise de réponse à Messieurs Lessard et Cartier. Suite de ce billet. Effectivement, je crois que dans le fond les approches sont complémentaires et si vous considérez la schématique comme mise en image de liens conceptuels, nous sommes d'accord ! Après ce n'est qu'une histoire de mots et ic...