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David Sherlock at the IEC

I'm David and I work at the IEC, this is a resting place for things that aren't quite finished. Here you can find some code, videos and ramblings around education, computation models, organisation, data visualisation and imperfection. You may be looking for my CETIS blog or my poorly organised Git repositories 


Recent Code

  • R workspace Trying to organise a workflow for my stuff in Rhttps://github.com/ds10/R-Workspace
    Posted 20 Mar 2012 07:04 by David Sherlock
  • HTML 5 Games Unorganised repo of my shadow game, and some other bits and bobs.https://github.com/ds10/html5-examples
    Posted 20 Mar 2012 07:05 by David Sherlock
  • Human Classroom Human Classroom is a LAMP app that plays on Marks idea of Angry Bird for teachers influenced by the Dwarf Fortress style of interactions. I've only made a start ...
    Posted 12 Jan 2012 02:35 by David Sherlock
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Recent Notes

  • Experience and knowledge through observation (This was my 2nd attempt. I'm still not happy with this, but its getting there.)I find the area of learning through play fascinating, as Isenberg and Quisenberry (2002 ...
    Posted 16 May 2012 03:20 by David Sherlock
  • Untitled Post on ABM How interactive visualisations, agent based models and social simulations give us experience through observation.TODO:BEEFimagesIn an Agent Based Models you create a system by programing individual autonomous ...
    Posted 15 May 2012 07:08 by David Sherlock
  • Identity The stab that Googles, Facebook and Twitter have had at online Identity depresses me. Here is Chris Poole making me feel somewhat better about things. "It’s not who you ...
    Posted 11 May 2012 05:20 by David Sherlock
  • R and the CSV with dodgy characters I've recently been text mining comments on a blog. One of the problems I came up against was encoding. tm_map threw this at me:invalid multibyte string 1 ...
    Posted 10 May 2012 04:05 by David Sherlock
  • The dangers of Slacktivism Slacktivism was originally a derogatory term to describe lazy activism. Tweet ribbons, online petitions and pre worded angry emails are all tools of the slactivist. Recently (if Reddit trend is ...
    Posted 8 May 2012 04:27 by David Sherlock
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