I'm pretty much in love with a data. Or, the knowledge we can extract from it. Or, rather, the better decisions that can be made based on said knowledge.
I hold a M.Sc in Sociology a MA in Historical Social Enquiry (Social History + Historical Sociology + Global Development), and work as Information Management Lead at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. I guess you can call me a Computational Sociologist of Global Development and Humanitarian Action. No less.
That's pretty much it, really.
A colleague and I have both been researching Mount Everest Base Camp treks lately. Mount Everest, or Sagarmāthā in Nepali, is the tallest mountain on earth. With a peak at 8,848 m (~29,000 feet) its top is further away from sea level than any other place on earth. That’s all well and good, of course. But exactly how […]
I finally found a good excuse to play around with RAW (made by the amazing people from Density Design). I have tried a few times before, but it quickly showed that I had too much data. Wanting to do stuff with a lot of data in a browser is really not such a good idea, but […]
I read a lot of tweets. No, really. A lot. No no no, you don’t hear me properly. Really. A. Lot. Not that I ever get to read the avalanche of tweets entering my stream, although I do go through it cursory somewhat daily. I even occasionally write something myself. But mainly, I analyse tweets. […]
If you have any interest in the history and politics of China (you should), the Reuters Connected China app is absolutely amazing. It’s basically a bunch of very well-annotated interactive data visualizations combined with a beautiful China 101. Divided into 5 areas, the social power visualization is particularly interesting, and it is easy to see […]
Jeg havde egentlig tænkt mig at skrive dette indlæg i august 2012, da jeg efter 5 forrygende og lærerige år stoppede i Advice Digital og startede som “Internal Communication/Knowledge Management Analyst” hos FN’s befolkningsfond, UNFPA. Jeg arbejdede der i 5 måneder, men fik aldrig skrevet om det. Nu arbejder jeg i stedet som “Big Data […]
So, I’m working on a social media data mining project with UN Global Pulse about the Post-2015 process, and wanted a quick look at regularly used words in combination with the debate taking place. The project I’m working on is basically a supplement to the global survey taking place now called MY World (please do participate), […]
With the never-ending expansion of online possibilities for quality learning, I got to the can’t-see-the-woods-for-trees phase quite a while ago and tend to forget about some of the high quality stuff out there. Hence, I wanted to get some sort of overview of the possibilities I needed to look into. That used to be an […]
Jeg kan aldrig huske hvor store billeder osv. skal være på sociale medier, men via Cool Infographics er jeg blevet gjort opmærksom på dette grimme, men meget brugbare cheat sheet. Designed by Lunametrics
Jeg abonnerer på en del udviklingsnyheder. De fleste via feeds direkte ind i Google Reader og dermed også ind i tre af mine absolutte yndlings-apps, Feedly (web+iPad+Android), Flipboard (iPad+Android) og Reeder (Mac+iPad). Og selvfølgelig via Twitter, hvor jeg – udover at følge en del – også har lavet to lister, Aid & Development og UN. Men […]