Tag Archives: Data

Ten reasons why you should pay attention to the geeks because actually they have something quite important to say which us non-geeky people should be listening to

By Joss Winn | Published: August 1, 2009
Re-broadcasting Mike Ellis’ recent presentation… Don't Think Websites, think data View more documents from Mike Ellis.
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Triplify: Make your blog mashable

By Joss Winn | Published: April 27, 2009
Last week, I wrote about how it is relatively simple to ‘pimp your ride on the semantic web‘. Over the weekend, I stumbled upon Triplify, a small ‘plugin’ for pretty much any web publishing platform, that “reveals the semantic structures encoded in relational databases by making database content available as RDF, JSON or Linked Data.” What is so appealing about [...]
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HEFCE HE Grant Allocations 2009-10 Visualised

By Joss Winn | Published: March 10, 2009
In our weekly team meeting, I mentioned that I’d created some visualisations of the RAE research funding allocations. I also mentioned that Tony Hirst had previously done the same for the HEFCE teaching funding allocations. I offered to send everyone links to these, but before do so, I thought I’d have a go at re-creating [...]
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RAE: UK research funding results visualised

By Joss Winn | Published: March 6, 2009
Yesterday, the results of the funding allocation for research in UK Higher Education were announced and published on the Times Higher Education website. Successive RAEs have concentrated research cash in the hands of the elite. This time around, the pie has been shared more widely. The full spreadsheet of results being available, I thought this was a [...]
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