Data science, networks, knowledge, speculation – Dr Paul Matthews

Bookmarks

Interactively exploring high-dimensional data and models in R

singator/grouper: R package for group allocation

f0lkl0r3.dev — Computer History Museum Oral Histories

(Pretty) big data wrangling with DuckDB and Polars – DuckDB + Polars

Neural Networks: Zero To Hero

What's Up With Everyone?

Custom Bootstrap Sass Themes for shiny and rmarkdown • bslib

Access a Synology NAS with Traefik on DSM7

LC & Flickr Commons

vintagedon/steam-dataset-2025: A modernized version of the 2019 Kaggle S…

Unhide: Classmates' Nominations for Hidden Diamonds and Ghosts

DevOps for Data Science

Smart Data Research UK Fellowships – UKRI

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

Animated Knots by Grog | Learn how to tie knots with step-by-step animation

Shiny in Production 2025: Full Length Talks

Google Arts & Culture Experiments - X Degrees of Separation by Mario…

I am a Senior Lecturer in Information and Data Science in the School of Computing and Creative Technologies, UWE Bristol.

My research interests span digital mental health, knowledge organisation, text and data analytics, social computing and the digital humanities.

I am Course Lead for UWE’s MSc in Data Science. I specialise in team-based learning and project supervision.

Posts

Effective mental health theraputic techniques according to therapists and clients on Reddit

What techniques or lessons do people think are effective? An R content analysis approach

Social Media for Positive Mental Health Impact: Promise and Reality

Can popular social media platforms improve the reach, appeal and impact of mental health information and coping strategies?

Visualising Bolaño’s Savage Detectives

Visualising a classic novel with a confusing timeline and bewildering set of characters

Data Devs in the Stack Overflow Survey 2024 (#TidyTuesday)

Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Data Analysts - how do they compare in terms of experience and salary?

‘Empathic’ Mental Health Chatbots

The risks and benefits of chatbot-based mental health support

Wikidata Literary Influencers

On the coverage of influences between writers on Wikidata.

Lessons from High-Performing Teams

Tips for team working success from tech, sports, disaster relief, catering and research

Data Science Learning Teams

A review of research into team-based learning (TBL) for data science education

Embodied AI and Extended Brains : Scifi Provocations

What science fiction hints about future AI and post-human consciousness

A UX-Related Hierarchy from Folksonomy

Creating structure from a user-generated tag cloud

A Data Skills Triumvirate

An analysis of job descriptions in data science, data analytics and data engineering

Relating Scientific Ideas

How do scientific concepts relate across disciplines?

Beyond GDPR Compliance: UX and Data Empowerment

GDPR as an opportunity for transparency and human agency rather than a restriction

Paul Matthews, Virginia Power

How might AR feel?

Given what we know about XR interaction and human perception, what could advanced AR be like?

Data Literacy as Concept and Capability

What are the dimensions of data literacy? How can it help us fulfil our aims?

Modelling knowledge norms

Agent-based modelling of social knowledge and interaction

DJ Influencers on Mixcloud

Who originates new music and who follows?

A Crowdsourced Twitterbot Workflow for the Digital Humanities

Using crowdsourcing to generate social media posts for a history bot

The Information Seeking Behaviour Research Community

Domain analysis of researchers in ISB

Teaching MapReduce

An active learning workshop for understanding map-reduce algorithms

Visualising the XFN Graph

XFN and understanding the web as a knowledge graph

Credibility and Persuasion: A Concept Map and Bibliography

A review of a selection of research on credibiilty in digital spaces.

Visualising changes over time

Some different examples of the display of longitudinal data

information systems research: describe, critique or design?

What is the purpose of sociotechnical research?

Book Review: Metadata and Semantics

Review of this research collection around metadata standards and practice

Information systems and theory : adhocracy v pluralism

How do sociotechnical theories relate to one another?