Site Reliability Engineer based in London https://jamesfrost.me Save your engineers sleep - Many technology companies have an ongoing commitment to their customers to guarantee reliability and uptime, with service level agreements that guarantee to resolve or escalate incidents within a particular time frame. Engineering team members rotate shifts so that someone is always on-call to be “paged” (these days, not using an... Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://jamesfrost.me/best-practices-for-on-call-processes/ https://jamesfrost.me/best-practices-for-on-call-processes/ I know nothing about football, but I can analyse Twitter data. - The idea of a ‘Team of the Week’ is simple; choose a team of players to highlight the best performances of the past week. Usually, this team is chosen by a pundit. However, Sky Sports have teamed up with Blurrt to produce the ‘Social Team of the Week’, decided by... Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 +0100 https://jamesfrost.me/social-team-of-the-week/ https://jamesfrost.me/social-team-of-the-week/ A problem with traditional sentiment analysis is that it lacks context; it typically only gives an overall sentiment value for the text. This isn’t particularly insightful as people can express different opinions (positive/negative) about different subjects within one body of text. For example: I hate Cameron, but I love Corbyn.... Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0100 https://jamesfrost.me/entity-sentiment-scoring/ https://jamesfrost.me/entity-sentiment-scoring/ Improving the performance of natural language processing search algorithms. - A large part of my job involves natural language processing. What I repeatedly find myself doing is searching through large lists of regular expressions, and doing something based on the expressions that have been matched. This is problematic, as there aren’t any data structures/algorithms for efficient regular expression searching in... Sun, 07 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0100 https://jamesfrost.me/a-better-search-algorithm-for-nlp/ https://jamesfrost.me/a-better-search-algorithm-for-nlp/ My code has been run on live TV; has yours? - Blurrt were asked by Twitter to help them visualise the conversation around the EU referendum for ITV. Several of our live data visuals were shown on live TV throughout the night. I was the onsite tech, responsible for making sure everything went smoothly. Twitter's @robowers analyses social media conversations about... Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0100 https://jamesfrost.me/itv-euref/ https://jamesfrost.me/itv-euref/ My code has been run on a huge screen in front of Buckingham Palace; has yours? - Blurrt were asked to join in with The Patron’s Lunch, a huge street party to celebrate The Queen’s patronage of over 600 charities and organisations on the occasion of her 90th birthday. For this event, we looked for ways to visualise the public’s wider conversation around the event in as... Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0100 https://jamesfrost.me/q90/ https://jamesfrost.me/q90/ Identifying and explaining areas of conversation around Jeremy Corbyn. - Identifying trends in users expressing opinion about Jeremy Corbin, and explaining these trends through real world data. Originally done as coursework for a Data Mining module at University. The Dataset The dataset consisted of ~1000 geotagged Tweets about Jeremy Corbyn. The Tweets were collected from Twitter, and then sentiment scored.... Sun, 13 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://jamesfrost.me/jeremy-corbyn-twitter-analysis/ https://jamesfrost.me/jeremy-corbyn-twitter-analysis/ A Robocup Simulation League Team. - RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition. The aim is to promote robotics and AI research, by offering a publicly appealing, but formidable challenge. The official goal of the project: "By the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer... Thu, 26 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://jamesfrost.me/robocup/ https://jamesfrost.me/robocup/