Writing a paper can be both joy and pain as the writing and editing sessions oscillate between a flow of excellent sentences conveying the propositional content in a clear and gracious way, and word-by-word slow typing sentences which does not feel elegant nor correct nor clear. The tools I have found, and today deeply appreciate, may not help you achieve a perfect state of mind with great ideas, nor a continuous flow of great words since that is something you…
On Tuesday it is just one month until the master thesis is to be handed in, hence the next weeks will be spent in front of the keyboard writing down findings from literature and interviews, editing the text, making connections and hopefully complete a text that can convey something interesting about what I perceive as an interesting trend in society. At the current stage the chapter headings are written in section and subsection markup, but these are not written in…
Last week Prime Minister David Cameron announced that more governmental information produced by the UK public sector should be opened to the public. This will according to the Guardian make the UK data.gov.uk repository the largest in the world, exceeding the US data.gov and equivalent in other countries. I decided two months ago to have a closer look at the emerging trend of government sharing their data with the public, and yesterdays statement adds to my impression of the importance…
I’ve been back in Edinburgh for over a week since my little trip to Norway, and as an epiphany the sudden realization of how much I have to write until mid-August. I’ve picked up many interesting points the last week from doing experiments with Open Data, and visualizations learned from the book Visualizing Data by Ben Fry. In addition I read the first half of Clay Shirky’s Here comes everybody (This book was recently listed on the Guardian’s 100 best…
I’m now finished with two semesters coursework for my masters, and the thesis is left to write before I hopefully will be entitled to receive my masters degree. I have learned much from the two previous semesters, and hope to learn even more from the process leading up to my dissertation is printed and handed in. As a part of my documentation and thought process I will use this blog to write about topics and findings related to my thesis….