So if you read this blog often (and if not, why not, gentle reader?) you’ll know that two of my big life interests are data and theatre. When I try to explain about the data to the theatre people they either get vastly excited like I’m some kind of wizard, or the conversation dries up … Continue reading
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Guest Post: Volunteer Ethnography
Following my post Who Needs an Ethnographer? a few weeks ago, I had several very interesting conversations on the purpose and possible methods of volunteering expertise as an ethnographer. One of these was with Eugenia Lee who is today’s guest blogger on her experience of working on a volunteer ethnography project in conjunction with Tufts … Continue reading
Tree Thieves of Wapping
Gentle readers, I have some grave news. Our beloved former Christmas tree, Twiglet Piny Tim McNeedles, has been tree-napped. When I last wrote about Piny Tim, our friends Paul (of Pootling Around fame) and Hannah had agreed to take him in and give him space in their garden. We packed him up and deposited him … Continue reading
Tree Thieves of Wapping
Gentle readers, I have some grave news. Our beloved former Christmas tree, Twiglet Piny Tim McNeedles, has been tree-napped. When I last wrote about Piny Tim, our friends Paul (of Pootling Around fame) and Hannah had agreed to take him in and give him space in their garden. We packed him up and deposited him … Continue reading
MOOC Overload (Or, The Day The Code Came)
I may have overdone it slightly. I signed up for three MOOCs all running concurrently. Two of these are computer science/programming courses and one is a business school/social sciences course on organizational analysis, just for a bit of variety. I’ve already told you about my adventures with CS50, Harvard University’s well-known introduction to computer science … Continue reading
MOOC Overload (Or, The Day The Code Came)
I may have overdone it slightly. I signed up for three MOOCs all running concurrently. Two of these are computer science/programming courses and one is a business school/social sciences course on organizational analysis, just for a bit of variety. I’ve already told you about my adventures with CS50, Harvard University’s well-known introduction to computer science … Continue reading
Never Mind A-Levels, Yashika. Sit the SATs.
There are times where I wonder why, in a climate of growing fear and mistrust of immigrants in Britain, I choose to remain. Last night as I watched the unfolding furore over Yashika Bageerathi’s deportation was one of those. Yashika was until last night a nineteen-year-old student at Oasis Academy Hadley in London, preparing to … Continue reading
Beautiful Knowledge
Yesterday I went to David McCandless’s talk “Knowledge is Beautiful” at the British Library. It’s part of a series of events in conjunction with the Beautiful Science exhibition and I felt lucky to have snaffled up a last-minute spare ticket as the talk was sold out. If you work in data and you aren’t already … Continue reading
Who Needs an Ethnographer?
I recently found myself lamenting the lack of ethnography in my professional life with a new acquaintance. Don’t get me wrong: my job stretches me in other ways. But many of the things I was trained for during my PhD aren’t called for in my day job. Not explicitly, anyway, though I would argue that … Continue reading
Who Needs an Ethnographer?
I recently found myself lamenting the lack of ethnography in my professional life with a new acquaintance. Don’t get me wrong: my job stretches me in other ways. But many of the things I was trained for during my PhD aren’t called for in my day job. Not explicitly, anyway, though I would argue that … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 