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Will rhetoric influence voter behaviour?

November 5, 2018 / Sharon Richardson / No Comments

Could the winner’s rhetoric after a marginal election victory influence voter behaviour next time? The US mid-term elections may provide the answer…

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How sensor data gets smart

October 24, 2018 / Sharon Richardson / No Comments

Talk delivered at The Things Conference. Discussing the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful ways in which data traces from digitised physical interactions can be converted into actionable insights…

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Digitally sensing people-place interactions

December 16, 2017 / Sharon Richardson / 3 Comments

Introducing recent research and development in urban cognitive analytics to sense population dynamics and people-place interactions

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Do not trust cognitive algorithms

September 8, 2017 / Sharon Richardson / 5 Comments

Algorithms based on training data will incorporate any biases in that training data, including not accounting for the missing data

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What expression is that!?

September 3, 2017 / Sharon Richardson / 4 Comments

There are three leaders of countries in the news quite a lot at the moment. And each appears to have a set of expressions when in the public eye. So what can computer vision tell us about them? Read More

Forecasting the 2017 UK general election

April 25, 2017 / Sharon Richardson / 1 Comment

Demonstrating a data-driven model to forecast election behaviour, reallocating votes between parties per constituency seat

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Wealth, Taxes and a Basic Income

April 22, 2017 / Sharon Richardson / No Comments

Exploring new mechanisms for taxation in an economy that provides a basic income – do you still need a minimum wage?  Read More

Health, Happiness and a Basic Income

March 20, 2017 / Sharon Richardson / 1 Comment

What does happiness have to do with offering a basic income? People are happier when they have security and autonomy, something a universal basic income could provide…

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Trump’s Twittery Moods

February 22, 2017 / Sharon Richardson / 1 Comment

What do the contents of Trump’s tweets tell us about his priorities and communications style? Using natural language processing for linguistic analysis

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Hacking happiness

January 31, 2017 / Sharon Richardson / 2 Comments

An analysis of election candidates profile photos and personal statements using cognitive algorithms. Does happiness matter? Can it be faked?

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