Obama's speech
In case you had to work today or just fell asleep on the counch in the early morning hours, here's a link to President-Elect Obama's acceptance speech. I'm really happy to see the change in the US,...
View ArticleVotes lost - no its not America rather Finland
Just an update on the current Finnish e-voting farce where 232 votes were lost due to `usability' issues with the voting machines, this Finnish EFF (see their statement). This might seem pretty small...
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Rte fun and games - who runs that bank?
rtefunandgamesOriginally uploaded by bluepelicanRte were obviously having fun with names today as they messed up the names for the Six One news and then inverted them for the Nine news. I'm wondering...
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Looking around at the end of the year
Well its a funny old Christmas this year with ups and downs in the economy. For a laugh or cynical look at the current situation, you could listen to Joseph O'Connor and his radio diary from...
View ArticleBackup and Failure
JournalSpace closed down a couple of days ago over a serious oversight with regard to their backup policy (read more here). The story seems to resolve around their use of a RAID array as their only...
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Random Paris Pictures
Mixed weather here in Paris but here are a couple of photos I took earlier, more to follow.
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iPhone Developer University Program
iPhone Developer University ProgramOriginally uploaded by bluepelicanThe Computer Science department, thanks to Mikael's efforts has officially joined the iPhone Developer University program. It is a...
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Germans wise up to e-voting
Germany has gone back to the paper ballot today with a decision by the German Federal Constitutional Court to immediately cease the use of electronic voting machines, in particular the Nedap ESD1 and...
View ArticleCS4062 - First Arduino Lecture
CS4062 Masters in Interactive Media - First Arduino Lecture - March 4th 2009 - University of Limerick. This lecture presents an introduction to the Arduino with examples. This was aimed at a digital...
View ArticleCS4062 - Second Arduino Lecture
CS4062 Masters in Interactive Media - Second Arduino Lecture - March 6th 2009 - University of Limerick. This lecture presents an introduction to communications and Arduino with examples. This was aimed...
View ArticleCS4062 - Third Arduino Lecture
CS4062 Masters in Interactive Media - Third Arduino Lecture - March 11th 2009 - University of Limerick. This lecture presents an introduction to motors, LEDs and Arduino with examples. This was aimed...
View ArticleCS4062 - First Arduino Tutorial - Talking to PureData and to Flash
CS4062 Masters in Interactive Media - Tutorial Example 1 Arduino and PureData - March 18th 2009 - This is a simple worksheet example for a class tutorial on getting PureData and an Arduino to...
View ArticleCS4062 - Fourth Arduino Lecture
CS4062 Masters in Interactive Media - Fourth Arduino Lecture - March 18th 2009 - University of Limerick. This lecture presents a short review and introduction to programming concepts relevant to...
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Sun, Sea, Sounds, and Arduino at SMC 2009
If you're interested in learning about the sounds of Porto and physical computing then consider participating in the upcoming SMC Summer School on Interactions with Environmental Sounds. It is going to...
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Arduino Mega and Prototype Shield Assembly
I've had some Sunday afternoon fun and games with the assembly of a prototyping shield. It is the design from e-lioness and is for the new Arduino Mega board. The new Arduino Mega board is designed to...
View ArticleVotewatch.eu or What did MEP X, Y, or Z do ?
It's that time again with the European election nominations just closed that you might actually be interested in what your MEP has been up to for the last term. Want to check how they voted or how...
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Limerick City Election Results since 90 including 09 first count
Courtesy of John BrowneThese figures show a scary trend for FF and for the now deceased PDs. These figures are based on the tallies for the 2009 LE results and are subject to revision but the trend...
View ArticleLisbon 2 Round up
It's almost time for Lisbon 2 so to I've brushed up my readings to take the new changes into account and decided to post a few of the more interesting pieces I've found online.Elvis making his case...
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Lisbon Red C Polling 2009 Dot Plots
I've been playing around with R and dot plots. Today's SBP poll from RedC was a prefect excuse to have some fun.LisbonRedCPolling2009-IncludingDontKnowsOriginally uploaded by...
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Visualising Lisbon 2009 and 2008 by constituency
The results are in. Lisbon 2 has been passed by Ireland. Voting results are available Irish Election, from RTE, and the IT. I've added a couple of visualisations using dot plots to help show where it...
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Playing with R to animate SBP / RedC polling data
Another quiet afternoon so I had a look at the excellent site, "From Data to Graphics" and came up with this little animation showing the last three years of Sunday Business Post polls results with the...
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Following recent Infomaps with R trend - Visualizing Irish unemployment rates...
Following on the recent trend of InfoMaps from Flowing Data and a call to R users to attempt their own examples. I saw this lovely German visualization with R and decided it was time to do...
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R for Global Climate forecasting
Joe has a great post on using R for exploiting existing climate datasets to create some really nice weather maps. Using the free information from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction...
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R for Global Wind Wave / Wave Swell Forecasting
As a follow up to using freely available existing climate datasets, here's one that might be of interest to those surfers and sailors out there. It is similar approach to that used for the temperature...
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A quiet day and some statistical fun
I recently enjoyed the slides from Peter Aldhous on "Data-Driven Journalism", he is the San Francisco bureau chief for the New Scientist magazine and knows a thing or three about this topic. It follows...
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