The Pop Test

Who knows more about computers? Comedians Dilruk Jayasinha and Naomi Higgins or computational expert Dr Maria del Mar Quiroga? We reckon the pressure’s on for Mar in our opening episode of our science/comedy quiz show.

OpenRefine for Social Science Data

OpenRefine is a powerful free and open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it and transforming it from one format into another. This Carpentries' session demonstrates how to use OpenRefine to effectively clean and format your data, while also automatically keeping track of any changes that you make.

Machines that Read your Mind

I co-organised a forum discussion as part of Melbourne Knowledge Week 2017, which got selected as a keynote event. During the session, I led a demonstration of a commercially available brain-machine interface (starts around minute 22 in live video linked above).