New Postgraduate Taught Degree: Data, Policy and Society MSc

15/05/2024 ~ Ernesto Priego

Honoured to be a co-director of this programme along Elinor Carmi. This new MSc will provide students with the practical research skills and knowledge to critically understand and ethically assess how data is used across a multitude of industries.

Working in the Dark: Not Tracking Positive Covid Cases Is Reckless

24/06/202224/06/2022 ~ Ernesto Priego

Who wants Long Covid?

FWIW: A list of stuff I published in 2020

18/12/202018/12/2020 ~ Ernesto Priego

This is most likely my last post from 2020. I have deposited on figshare a basic sheet listing a selection of my articles, blog posts and outputs I published openly during 2020.

The 2018 Altmetric Top 100 Outputs with ‘Comics’ as Keyword

14/12/201814/12/2018 ~ Ernesto Priego ~ 1 Comment

I share the 2018 Top 100 research outputs with 'comics' as a keyword according to Altmetric.

Questions of Access in the Digital Humanities: Data from JDSH

04/08/201710/08/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego ~ 1 Comment

I used The Altmetric Explorer to locate any articles from the Journal of Digital Scholarlship in the Humanities that had had any 'mentions' online anytime. With the Open Access Button API we tried to locate open surrogates. Some insights are shared from the data.

On UK Labour and Conservatives Tweet Sources

01/06/201701/06/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

Where I share insights into the sources used to tweet from the UK Labour and Conservatives Twitter accounts from an analysis of a sample of 500 recent tweets from each account.

Exeunt Android; Enter Ads: An Update on the Sources of Presidential Tweetage

18/05/201718/05/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

No Trumpian Tweets coming from the Web Client since 25 January this year; no Tweets from Android since 25 March. Tweets from Twitter Ads have made an appearance alternating with Twitter for iPhone Tweets since 31st March. In the 18 days of May so far, the account has tweeted every single day, totalling 90 Tweets until the morning of the 18th of May.

People, Government: Top 300 Terms in the Conservative and Labour Manifestos 2017 (Counts and Trends)

18/05/201718/05/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego ~ 1 Comment

I have just deposited the following data on figshare: Top 300 Terms in the Conservative and Labour Manifestos 2017 (Counts and Trends).

Android vs iPhone: Source Counts and Trends in a Bit More than a Year’s Worth of Trumpian Tweetage

04/04/201718/05/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

I have now prepared and shared a CSV file containing Tweet IDs and other metadata of 3,805 Tweets from user ID 25073877 posted publicly between Thursday February 25 2016 16:35:12 +0000 to Monday April 03 2017 12:51:01 +0000. I discuss source counts, trends and implications for research.

Android vs iPhone: Trends in a Month’s Worth of Trumpian Tweetage

15/03/201715/03/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

I prepared a dataset from Twitter user with user_id_str 25073877 containing a total of 123 public Tweets and corresponding metadata between 15 February 2017 06:40:32 and 15 March 2017 08:14:20 Eastern Time.

Android vs iPhone: Most Frequent Words from_user_id_str 25073877 Per Source

28/02/201728/02/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

I have archived 3,603 public Tweets from_user_id_str 25073877. I looked at the sources of those Tweets, and the top 50 most frequent terms per main source (iPhone and Android).