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A reflection in a screen. Information Visualisation @EdinburghUni

Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined August 2010
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Shane Sheehan retweeted
This is a masterclass (yet again) in @IrishTimes on how NOT to present information. Quick glance & you’d be sure 🇮🇪 has tumbled DOWN the medal tables since 2000. FFS. This is criminal level breaking of the rules of how to share data.
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The Sustainability and Health Corpus (@CentreShe) web interface is freely accessible here: genealogies.mvm.ed.ac.uk/web… 💡 Growing resource for research and teaching. User manual and further information via our website: shecorpus.net
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Want to use the Oslo Medical Corpus @CentreShe in your teaching or research, but unsure how or where to start? Our instructional videos 👀are here to help: oslomedicalcorpus.net/educat…🟢
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After months of dedicated effort on our application, I'm thrilled to announce that it has been published today: we've been selected for funding! 🎉🚀 Huge congratulations to the entire fantastic @CircleU_eu team! @sveinstlen @_kevinguillaume @HanneFH1 @tweetingtony @UniOslo_MED
🎉Our @EUErasmusPlus proposal #CircleU2030 has been selected for funding! ➡️shorturl.at/bely3 🏆Proud to celebrate the achievements of the last 3 years. We’re making a difference! ⚙️🔧Consolidate, scale up, impact, embed… 🏃The marathon continues...#CircleUisYou
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This was a very rich snd stimulating webinar with a stellar group of speakers, including authors of the article @eivinden @trishgreenhalgh @tweetingtony @CentreShe @SaldanhaViva @CarolinaRau3 @MayLenSkilbrei @trinekleven @ButsJan @Neil_Sadler @LuisPerezGonz11 @kim_kyunghye
At today’s webinar, we discussed the importance of a broad, critical, and transformative approach to teaching #SDGs - moving beyond the conventional "one-SDG-at-a-time" methodology ⁦⁩Tx to ⁦@MagdaNRobalo⁩ & ⁦@JessamyBagenal⁩, read more👇 linkedin.com/posts/eivinden_…
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Shane Sheehan retweeted
I don’t care that it’s not AGI, GPT-4 is an incredible and transformative technology. I recreated the game of Pong in under 60 seconds. It was my first try. Things will never be the same. #gpt4
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Shane Sheehan retweeted
Replying to @sama
This is mind-boggling ..the day is not far when GPT-4 will write a blockbuster Hollywood movie script and screenplay @sama
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Fantastic to see this Tweet thanks to @StackinTurtles for an excellent course on #visualisation @EdinUniUsher which inspired me to make this design; looks nicer than a pie chart. Also thanks to all the @NHSNearMe staff for ongoing great work
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If you are exploring dataviz in the metaverse, let me point you to these amazing works that often visualize data on multiple dimensions as written by the great @attilabatorfy : medium.com/nightingale/the-h…
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Shane Sheehan retweeted
“The future is already here - it’s just not equally distributed”. Here’s a huge list of case studies on how newsrooms are already using AI 🤖 #ai #journalism lse.ac.uk/media-and-communic…
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Fascinating insight: Trained solely on unsupervised language modeling, the Transformer's attention mechanism recovers high-level structural (folding) and functional properties of proteins! Blog: blog.einstein.ai/provis/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2006.15222 Code: github.com/salesforce/provis
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If you're looking for some longer reads, why not take a look at this in-depth view at Marie Neurath, one of the less-recognized figures in data visualization and design history! medium.com/nightingale/the-m…
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Shane Sheehan retweeted
ICYMI - MapSCII - maps🗺️ in your terminal🖥️ I am not sure I have a use for this project but boy do I want to find one! 👉github.com/rastapasta/mapsci…
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Shane Sheehan retweeted
Great research meeting in #Zagreb ! Now Senja Pollak introducing our @embeddiaproject to students at Faculty of electrical engineering and computing, University of Zagreb
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Shane Sheehan retweeted
"Data requirements are more critical than algorithm design" Ivan Vulić at the second day of the @embeddiaproject meeting in #zagreb #crosslingual #nlp
Students at @waterfordit have created a #robotic home assistant called Lampbot that includes #SpeechRecognition technology from Google siliconrepublic.com/machines…
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When you completely lose sight of what you're trying to illustrate...
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Shane Sheehan retweeted
We are now recruiting 30 #phd positions here at @scienceirel Centre for Research Training in #MachineLearning in @ucddublin, @DublinCityUni and @WeAreTUDublin. Full details at ml-labs.ucd.ie #phdlife #ireland #inventthefuture #BelieveInScience
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Shane Sheehan retweeted
Difference between machine learning and AI: If it is written in Python, it's probably machine learning If it is written in PowerPoint, it's probably AI
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