Having finished Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri at the end of last week, I started reading Life 3.0 Being Human in the age of AI by Max Tegmark. Both
Weeknotes – 2019 – Wk5
I had only one day working at the “day job” this week, instead of three, so there should have been loads of time to catch up on side projects, watch some tutorial videos, experiment, play with data. I’m really not
Weeknotes – 2019 – Wk4
Falling behind already. I changed my normal work days (Mon – Weds) to Mon, Tues, Friday which shook things up a little. I had a few conversations with people about potential new events for Data Fest Fringe in Aberdeen. It
Weeknotes – 2019 – Wk3
I’m conscious that I shy away from writing about the day job which occupies me three days per week at the moment. I need to reconcile myself to that or speak to head office to see what level of blogging
Weeknotes – 2019 – Wk2
I was on leave still on Monday, so I went to the Aberdeen Uni library for the day to work on planning out a few things. Some acquaintances are going to be running a pilot on IoT in primary and
Weeknotes – 2019 – Wk1
I’m going to write week notes for 2019. This is my first attempt at this. I expect to balance the various things that form ‘work’ with side projects, reading, music and beer. The first week of the new year was a
Data Lab Innovation Week – Day Five
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