Tweeting tides updated

Almost a year ago I implemented a system that took tidal data which was openly published by Land Information New Zealand for some ports around the country and published them as real-time status updates on Twitter.  Each time there is a high or low tide, a tweet is sent that says what the time is, [...]

Posted on October 1, 2010 at 7:44 am by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Tweeting temporal tidal data

There are movements worldwide to free not only research publications through the Open Access publishing movement, but also to make data sets free and open. In New Zealand work in this area is being championed by the public OpenGovt.gov.nz site which has a useful open data catalogue of online open government created data sets. Having [...]

Posted on August 10, 2009 at 9:34 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 13 Comments
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Preserving reactions to Lord Of The Rings

‘Preserving reactions to Lord Of The Rings’ is a funny blog posting title, but I’ll explain… Back in 2003 to 2004, our department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies undertook the biggest audience response survey to a film ever. They collected just short of 25,000 responses to the films from speakers of 14 different languages. [...]

Posted on June 27, 2008 at 7:09 am by Stuart · Permalink · 4 Comments
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