Mozilla Festival is many things to many people. For me, it’s mainly encapsulated by a feeling. That feeling is passion for sharing joy in technology, tempered by a sense of responsibility to curate the web as a community space. I find trying to explain the festival in any more detail than that makes the description … Continue reading
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Data (from Different Angles): All Your Base 2014
I went to the All Your Base database conference last week and while there it struck me that people mean really, really different things when they talk about data, even within the same business. My background is in data analysis, so to me until very recently ‘data’ pretty much only related to enterprise data or … Continue reading
Events: Think, Drink, Do and the London Quarterly Technolgy Briefing
I went to two tech events this week and I thought you might like to know a little about them. On Monday I attended Think, Drink, Do run by an innovation agency called Paper. The idea is to get together of an evening and do a little of all three. There were three talks to … Continue reading
#MusketeerTweets Info-ish Graphic
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed recently that I took to tweeting excerpts from Alexandre Dumas’s novel The Three Musketeers interspersed with sarky commentary. (Flourish of the plumed hat to my friend Dr Jem Bloomfield for goading me on in this dubious literary venture.) It is a document that rather lends … Continue reading
Data for Good: DataKind’s Data Dive, 6-8 June 2014
This weekend I volunteered for my first Data Dive, DataKind UK’s initiative to connect data scientists with charities and social organisations to help them tackle some of their biggest challenges. This month’s Data Dive focused on Buttle UK, the Access Project, Shooting Star Chase and Citizens Advice Bureau, looking at a range of issues from … Continue reading
Things to Do with Data (and Theatre)
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
Night (Bus) Terrors: The Fear Rides Again
There are two things that without exception will throw me into a state of near panic. The first is being caught outside my home or workplace without keys, credentials, a means of communication, or money (and on one memorable occasion, without shoes.) The second is being far from home without a clear idea of the … 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
Caitiewrites at Mozfest 2013: a Storify Journey
I was lucky enough to go to Mozilla Festival for the first time over the weekend. I experimented with Storify for the first time also, capturing my notes and photos for the festival here. Here’s a sample of what you can find on my Storify of Mozilla Festival 2013! Much more detail over there, organized … Continue reading
Seams: Private and Public in Digital Lives
Last Tuesday night I was fortunate enough to hear Genevieve Bell, anthropologist, future-thinker, and director of Intel Corporation’s Interaction and Experience Research, speak. It was a really compelling talk with lots of big thoughts. There was a small one I wanted to pick up on, though: in a discussion about seamless technology integration, Bell told … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 