By Rhianydd Biebrach, Project Officer for Cartooning the First World War at Cardiff University.
This article is part of our series: a day in the software life, in which we ask researchers from all disciplines to discuss the tools that make their research possible.
Cartoons are probably not the most obvious source material for the history of the First World War, but in the approximately 1,350 political cartoons drawn by Joseph Morewood Staniforth that appeared in The Western Mail and the News of the World throughout the conflict, we have a…
By Liam Turner, PhD student at Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics.
This article is part of our series: a day in the software life, in which we ask researchers from all disciplines to discuss the tools that make their research possible.
Growth in smartphone technology has led to the traditional trawl for information to be devolved down to an individual level. This presents a challenge as traditional methods of making information available depend on when it is ready available, rather than when it is most convenient for a busy user.
Currently…
By Luke Sloan, Matthew Williams and Pete Burnap of the COSMOS Project, Cardiff University.
This article is part of our series: a day in the software life, in which we ask researchers from all disciplines to discuss the tools that make their research possible.
It’s any organisations’ worst nightmare. Be it a faulty product or a food scare, the impact of rumour can be significant both for businesses and regulators. This has always been the case, but the advent of social media and proliferation of platforms such as Twitter have enabled faster and more…