Four of my five top non-fiction books which I read this year are Python programming titles. This is unsurprising as I’ve spend a considerable amount of time teaching myself Python via books and MOOCs. The titles below will take you
My favourite novels of 2013
During 2013 I read just over 30 novels. Some were newly published books, some classics that I’d not read before, and others that were recommended to me. The discovery of the year, for me, was Ernest Hemingway; someone whose work
First look: Mining The Social Web – Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc
Have you ever wanted to use the APIs of the main Social Media platforms, to download and analyse data, manipulate it and combine it with other data sources? Then this excellent, updated book is for you. [AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”1449367615″] The sample
Draped in Irony – is the Public sector always behind the private sector?
Those of us working in ICT and digital service delivery in the public sector are often told we lag behind the private sector. But that is frequently not true in my experiemce, and my recent attempts to hire a dinner