From discovery to collection to connection
Turning your Spotify playlist into a record collection, and why that could be really disruptive Quick summary I’ve long wanted to make it easy to […]
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Diome: definition
Diome [noun] A data biome that represents a temporal cluster of data from which specific insights can be learned, analysed and/or derived. Discussion This is […]
ai code example: animated planetary orbit
Today’s example of how easy AI can make it to write code. The interactive animation below is the final output from various experiments below.[My words […]
Testing out this AI thing
Here’s a basic algorithm for trading based on 1% value swings: Note: This is a basic algorithm, and there are many factors to consider when […]
Open Life Data Framework
Report: https://dgen.net/1/OpenLifeDataFramework-2021-11-18.pdf Official site: https://appg-longevity.org/open-life-data-framework Vision: To enable consent-based, trust-enhancing and secure sharing of personal ‘health-relevant data’ from the private sector to improve and level […]
Designing the UK’s shared data infrastructure
Smart Data: Research on Consent, Liability & Authentication The government has estimated that the impact of personal data mobility enabled productivity and efficiency is worth […]
How Can We Stop Losing Our Minds?: Producing a Legacy From Development Projects, Not Just a Document
Have you ever run, funded or been part of a development project? Have you ever gotten to the end of it and felt that, […]
Open Finance — Designing for Cohesion and Interoperability
The Financial Conduct Authority set up an Advisory Group on open finance to discuss the potential of extending open banking-like data-sharing to a wider range […]
An evolution in process
The above chart is an evolution of the work of Simon Wardley, which I’ve been following for many years. It feels like we’re in another […]
The Data Spectrum: defining Shared & Closed
One of the things I’m most proud of creating at the ODI is the Data Spectrum, to us help understand the language of data. When […]
BBookproject launches
Constellator Anna Versteeg has launched her new project: https://bbookproject.com “a collaboration between medics, scientists, researchers, writers, artists, designers and the general public, exploring science and […]
Can government stop losing its mind?
Can government remember? Is it condemned to repeat mistakes? Or does it remember too much and so see too many reasons why anything new is […]
Report – International review & benchmarking of Open Banking
We have completed our comprehensive International review & benchmarking of Open Banking for the Canadian government, covering: Australia Europe Hong Kong India Japan Mexico Malaysia […]
Report – Development of UK open banking
We have completed our review of the development of UK open banking for the Canadian government, tracing its history back to the 2007-2008 financial crisis […]
DECODE – personal data & the public good
I’ve joined the Advisory Board of DECODE, which is exploring tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or […]
Adventures in acoustic cosmology
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE RAS PR 17/30 (NAM 13) 3rd July 2017 A project that explores whether there is a musical equivalent to the […]
TALK — Forms of Knowledge: Calculations and Creativity
“In celebration of a new installation of work by glass artist Dr Shelley James, The Hospital Club presents a panel discussion about the science […]
The tweetable scientific method
Reposting from my tweet: ■ Observe→Question→Hypothesise→Create tests →Test→Adapt→More tests→Generalise→Repeat↺ [The Tweetable Scientific Method]
some themes emerging
Thinking about the sea http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/sunday-review/protecting-the-untamed-seas.html and webcasting https://dgen.net/blog/ms-hans and music http://rinse.fm http://store.darkclover.ro/album/sabo http://tidal.lurk.org http://lysuc888.blogspot.co.uk http://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2015/08/03/rhythmus-als-dna-der-musik and long playing things http://longplayer.org/about/ and cosmology/topology http://www.binarydust.org/2012/09/21/evolving-language http://www.nersc.gov/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2014/simulations-reveal-unusual-death-for-ancient-stars and […]
Welcome back Philae!
To celebrate the news: Click the green flag and press S to start …. then press space bar to launch Philae. Arrow keys for left […]
Updated archives
Well, it’s been a while since I posted here (Twitter still winning), but here’s a long overdue synopsis of some of the things my first […]
AMEE at Strata – talk slides
My slides from O’Reilly’s Strata conference “Making Data Work” today. I described some of AMEE’s journey: through open data aggregation and distribution, accessibility, provenance, and […]
Energy Identity
[repost of my AMEE post on Energy Identity] Since AMEE’s inception in 2005, we have recognised that the emerging sets of data needed for carbon […]
ISEA 2012
I’ll be speaking at the Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque. Machine Wilderness is a symposium and series of events exploring the discourse […]
Listen to the colliding “Antennae Galaxies”
A sneak preview of some of the work I’ll be presenting on Sunday. Below is a radio-image taken by ALMA of the “Antennae Galaxies” colliding. […]
The utterance of a cosmological model?
“On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth. 2011 sees the fiftieth anniversary […]
Binary Dust …
Well, it’s taken a little while to pull together, but Binary Dust is now live. Hope you enjoy.
Webcasting radio = innovation
A big shout out to RinseFM who just got their FM license [Guardian, Evening Standard]. This is the second station I’ve helped with streaming that’s […]
Possible futures?
Pick a future?
A Climate of Polarisation
(copy of my post on the O’Reilly Radar) We’re all aware of the emotive language used to polarize the climate change debate. There are, however, […]
Cloudcast :: a next step in the evolution of broadcast
At last, I think the nature of [AV] transmission is beginning to reveal itself. Do we need a new term? Probably – many other terms […]
Jodrell Bank, 50 years on …
This year is the 50th anniversary of Jodrell Bank. Today is also a landmark day for Jodrell Bank – the whole science team are moving […]
Global Cool launches
wow. we did it. we built and launched it on time. to the minute, as they walked off stage… It finally (soft/beta) launched with a […]
Latvia performance
ACOUSTIC SPACE: RT32 Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the conversion of the RT32 telescope at VIRAC, Riga & Irbene, Latvia. A collaboration between VIRAC, RIXC […]
Archive of early publications
Date Title 2004-03-29 BBC Charter Review feedback for WMF 2004-03-01 “Primer” on Internet Broadcasting for VET 2004-02-28 “EFF Response – Music Licensing” (hublog feedback) 2004-02-20 […]
“Broadcast Assassins” @ BBC
Invited speaker – “Broadcast Assassins” an internal BBC workshop for key managers Quite nice to be invited to, albiet by this time most people should […]
In response to…. BBC Charter
In response to [published in the proceedings from] Westminster Media Forum “BBC 2016 Charter Renewal” meeting 2004-02-25 at Millbank Tower. Inverting the Model Working at […]
Project Sigma
© 2003 Precis Sigma aims to demonstrate the human scale of infinity. Its aim is to make human infinity a tangible concept and to allow its […]
Hong Kong concert
ICMC Computer-music festival in Hong Kong. Premiered “Glass” in Hong Kong UST GLASS [8m08s] 1996 The French surrealist literary movement ‘ecriture automatique’ expressed the inner […]
AES presentation (3D sound)
Published and presented Starks, G.R. & Linton, K.N. (Feb. 1994). “A 3-D Stereo Processing Tool“, 96th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
ICMC presentation (3D-sound)
Part of the results of my Masters Degree in Computer-Music from Glasgow University. Amongst other things, we “streamed” uncompressed WAV files between Glasgow and Edinburgh, […]
Internet Music Survey
Working as a researcher at the University of Glasgow, I surveyed all the free digital signal processing (DSP) and music software available on the Internet. […]