Crook O Lune earlier:
Quick ride out to Brookhouse today, approx 12 mile. Took this at the crook o lune bridge.
This is a VoiceYourView summary of the BBC programme Question Time aired 9th Dec 2010 22.30 to 23.30. Each tweet was auto tagged using our techniques and the top topics (by frequency) selected to plot over time.
Why is this interesting?
· We have automatically tagged the topic of conversation without doing any kind of special training or characterisation of systems to the dataset. We sit back and see what emerges.
· This is a summary of approx 10,000 tweets generated in real time – something that would take many hours of researcher time to put together manually.
· The content of tweets reflects the running order of the programme (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wmz3q). The topic changes from student tuition fees (represented by the dark green “education” topic and purple “money” topic) to prison policy and then wikileaks (content of tweets shifted to “crime” – light green trace).
See http://www.voiceyourview.com for more project information or follow @voiceyourview for the latest.
I spent the afternoon on Tuesday in the House of Commons meeting MPs, Peers and their invited guests in a session designed to showcase the work of a number of research council projects. The Minister of State for Universities and Science David Willets highlighted our project - VoiceYourView in his speech as "one of the most innovative projects" he was briefed on. You can just about see the demostration of VoiceYourView I set up to the Minister's left in the image below.
Read more about the event here on the Lancaster University news page:
http://domino.lancs.ac.uk/info/lunews.nsf/I/1EDE4A01077A7B34802577CA004FAF43
VoiceYourView was invited by Research Councils UK (RCUK) to the Science in the new parliament event at the House of Commons this coming Tuesday.
I’ll be demo-ing the latest version of the VoiceYourView software in a showcase of UK research.
Read more here http://www.voiceyourview.com/site/news.php
Researcher, systems developer and mountain biker :) Currently a post-doc RA in the SCC at Lancaster University, working on the VoiceYourView project.
