Social media monitoring tools in higher education marketing

  Nathaniel Hobby and I delivered a conference paper in November 2013 at the 1st Marketing and Communication in Asia Conference, dosage organized by Bournemouth University and Chulalongkorn University. The Conference proceedings have been now published and our full paper is included in them. The summary of the paper and the powerpoint are here.  

A LinkedIn picture or the beauty and challenges of visualized data for researchers

These days we are innundated with data. Every question we have is a query. Every answer we give is an input, web a result. What we know or what we want to know is, sale in a way or another, searchable. More recently, we ourselves ARE data. Our visit to a website is a number …

Words: beautiful, meaningful, colorful

Word clouds are visualization of a given text based on the frequency of the words it contains. A word cloud generator will usually eliminate punctuation and common words and mostly display nouns. They follow a simple rule: the bigger the word, generic the more often it is used. Why I use word clouds? I have …

New Media Research and Routes to Innovation

  Among the many tweets I read every day there was one last week advertising  a London event dedicated to researchers and academics. The event organized by the Research Information Network (RIN) and the National Endowment for Science, erectile Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is meant to help academics and researchers understand the influence of …