With our final day upon us, and no tuition sessions to start the day, Friday began with an even greater urgency than previous days. The format was to be straightforward: a sprint of activity to lunchtime, setting up our allocated
Data Lab Innovation Week – Day Four
Day dawned brightly again on day four of the innovation week. Grabbing a cup of tea and some breakfast, we settled down for the first talk of the day. This was from Neil McGuire, a Glasgow designer and lecturer of
Data Lab Innovation Week – Day Three
Our third day at the Data Lab Innovation Week, kicked off with a very interesting talk on data ethics from Dr. Alastair Morrison from the University of Glasgow’s School of Computing. We were guided by Snook session leaders in the
Data Lab Innovation Week – Day Two
The second day of innovation week started with two learning sessions. Anne and Keira from Snook shared some of their service design methodologies, such as solving problems that matter and using discovery and design research as part of the double
Data Lab Innovation Lab – Day One
On a bright Monday morning, 116 MSc Data Science students from campuses all across Scotland assembled for a week of innovating with data. The location was The Whisky Bond, the ground floor of which had been given over to the
Alcohol Labels – how will they be perceived?
Introduction At the Code The City 13 – Alcohol Hack weekend, I worked as part of team #cantchadontchawontcha. You will find more information on this CTC page. The challenge we faced was that brewers of craft beers, in particular, in
52 Books – April 2018
My reading for the first four months of the year started well, but tailed off with a load of coursework in March / April. This is very much a catch-up post, to fill in the blanks! Title Author ISBN Pages
52 Books – Dec 2017 Update
This is a very late post, but I will write it just for completeness. Having left work in June 2017, taken the summer off, then enrolled in an MSc course, and sold the domain name where this blog used to
52 Books – June 2017 update
I confess – June was not a great month for reading. Life in all its complexities (and work in the shape of my bid to escape my then-current employment) got in the way. I read one novel Dodger (ISBN 978-0552563147,
52 Books – May 2017 update
This month was a leaner month reading-wise: two novels and one photography book. I guess it makes the blog post shorter! I’d received the fantastic Magnum Legacy book of Bruce Davidson’s photography (ISBN 978-3-7913-8135-0 and 192 pages) by Vicki Goldberg