Data Manifestation Talk at Open Data Institute
December 21, 2016 by Giles Lane · Comments Off on Data Manifestation Talk at Open Data Institute
Back in June I gave a talk on data manifestation and our Lifestreams project at the Open Data Institute :
Read Giles’ post, How Do We Know? for more details on the project.
Lifestreams Redux
March 24, 2016 by Giles Lane · 4 Comments
This week I presented a new generation of lifecharm data shells at a symposium on ethics in data science for the Alan Turing Institute. The shells were created by Stefan Kueppers using the Lifestreams process for data manifestation, and used data from a research project led by Professor George Roussos at Birkbeck University of London which records symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease as experienced by sufferers.
These shells are an initial experiment flowing just 3 data sources into the shell growth parameters, which we hope to expand with further data sources and increase the complexity of the model in future generations. The aim is to capture the high variation in symptoms experienced by those with Parkinson’s as an alternative to the way in which patients’ complex symptoms are collapsed into the single summary statistic of the Universal Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale.
Read my provocation piece for the ATI symposium for more information.
Wearable Superpowers at Science Museum Late
June 2, 2015 by Giles Lane · 2 Comments
Packed house for Wearable Superheroes at #smlates. Spot the odd ones out? pic.twitter.com/oeVkakNV3e
— David Robertson (@Davesci) April 29, 2015
A few weeks ago our Snout project costumes – Mr Punch and the Plague Doctor – had a rare outing to take part in a Late at the Science Museum in London. They were presented by students on UCL’s MA in Museum Studies as part of their group final show, We Need to Talk: Connecting Through Technology. We are told they were voted the audience favourite!
Thanks to Professor George Roussos at Birkbeck (for arranging and supporting) and to electronics engineer Demetrios Airantzis for building new power supplies for the wearable sensors, processor boards and LED displays – still working perfectly after 8 years.
