Web objects, data visualisations and technical curios.
2021: Point-light dancer
Moving dots create the powerful impression of a human dancer (because they mark the joints, as extracted from real video of a dancer).
Uses google’s mediapipe, ffmpeg, python
2021: Experiment Design Checklist
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Uses: github pages, markdown, css, CC license, github citation widget, zenodo for doi
2021: Edale Rewilding project
The bank of the river was fenced off in April 2021, preventing daily grazing by sheep. Timelapse footage shows regrowth in May and June
Uses: Browning BTC-7A trail camera, ffmpeg
2020: Correspondence of Gregory VII
This project involved taking digitised records of the Pope’s correspondence, geolocating the destinations and then various visualisations of the spatial and temporal patterns, including these maps.
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And with a different map base
![](https://i0.wp.com/idiolect.org.uk/notes/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/map1080.png?resize=580%2C362&ssl=1)
Blog post: ‘Holy Satan’- Visualising the Letters of Gregory VII (1073-1085) / Data set and plots: https://doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.12781049 / github repo / markdown page
Uses python & geopandas, ffmpeg
2020: Timelapse photographs of dawn
Uses: Canon digital SLR, gphoto2 and darktable on ubuntu linux, ffmpeg
2019: @choiceengine
A twitter bot which you can send messages to, in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure / text-adventure, exploring essays about the neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of freewill.
With James Jeffries (code), Jon Cannon (design)
full text here / twitter.com/choiceengine / New Scientist article / Blog post at mindhacks.com
Uses ruby, markdown
2019: Pressure vessels
Scraping from PDF and plotting data on mental health among UK University staff, obtained by freedom of information request
![](https://i0.wp.com/idiolect.org.uk/notes/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/totals.png?resize=580%2C488&ssl=1)
Uses python and tabula
2019: Mapping The Itinerary of King Edward I
In medieval England, King visits you
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With Charles West and Charlotte Tompkins
Uses python and cartopy
2019: Animated Itinerary of King John
An excuse to make animated maps …
![](https://i0.wp.com/idiolect.org.uk/notes/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/animated_itinerary3.gif?resize=474%2C623&ssl=1)
Uses: Python and Pandas and Cartopy, ImageMagick
2018: Lazy and biased? Reanalysis of Pennycook & Rand’s (2018) data
Using open data to look more closely at a study of whether people can spot fake news
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2018: Light reanalysis of Čavojová et al (2018)
Reanalysis of open data from a study of bias shows that accurate discernment is the main result, and participant bias a small variation around this baseline
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2017: European map of Implicit Racial Bias
Implicit associations reflect the difference in ease with which you associate two objects. For this map we took data from a large crowdsourcing project which gathered data from ~144k white Europeans and measured the ease with which they made negative associations with black faces.
With Gittu George
Plots / code & data / The Conversation: This map shows what white Europeans associate with race – and it makes for uncomfortable reading
Uses Project Implicit data, R & ggplot
2017: Debating Sex Differences in Cognition
Showing the slides and transcript from a talk I gave summarising a graduate seminar I coordinated.
![](https://i0.wp.com/idiolect.org.uk/notes/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/delusions-0000.jpg?resize=580%2C326&ssl=1)
Uses: python, markdown, bash, html/css
2016: Emergent models of mind
A short course about simple computational models of memory, taught using Jupyter notebooks
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Course repo / class 4 notebook on hopfield networks
Uses: python, ipython/jupyter notebooks