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Yesterday, I gave a talk about my experiences with developing and using RESTful APIs, with the goal of providing tips for structuring such interfaces so that they work in a useful and sensible way. I went back to first principles, with overviews of basic HTTP messages as part of the request-response … Read more (1 minute read)

Today I gave an internal talk at the School of Computer Science & Informatics about open-source contribution. The talk described some of the disadvantages of the ways in which hobbyists and the non-professional sector publicly publish their code. A lot of the time these projects do not receive … Read more (1 minute read)

Last week, I was invited to give a seminar to the Agents and Intelligent Systems group in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London. I gave an overview of my PhD research conducted over the past two or three years, from my initial research into retweet behaviours and propagation … Read more (1 minute read)

Last week I visited Karlsruhe, in Germany, to give a presentation accompanying a recently-accepted paper. The paper, “Inferring the Interesting Tweets in Your Network”, was in the proceedings of the Workshop on Analyzing Social Media for the Benefit of Society (Society 2.0), which was … Read more (1 minute read)

I gave a seminar on my current research phase. I summarised my work over the past few months; in particular, the work on the network structure of Twitter, the way in which tweets propagate through different network types, and the implications of this. I discussed the importance of precision and … Read more (1 minute read)