Yesterday, I attended an awareness workshop of the National Centre for e-Social Science. Well attended and well informed, in general. I though that the LSE was well represented. Apart from myself, and that’s just for another few months, there was someone from IT, a person from the Library and a guy from CARR. The largest contingent, by far. NCeSS is about the use of the grid, and related middleware (read: software applications) to enable social science research. The meeting was about, ehr, spreading the word. Here it is. Take a look at their website, there are interesting funding opportunities, for researchers at all stages of their careers.

Having been trained as a sceptic, I was eager to ask the so-what question. That is: if you have a research blog, like this, and a wiki, and you post your datasets online, and you’re willing and able to use the Library for your data needs, why on earth would you need the grid. After receiving an answer, of sorts, I was persuaded. Possibly, it was the ‘Portal’, ‘one-key access’ and ‘distributed computing’ that convinced me. For now. I’ll look into it over the next few weeks.

If anyone is interested in the topic, just drop a line and we can share some thoughts on a coffee.

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Once in a while I come across something that makes me think: new about new media. As I think very much with a ‘politics’ frame of mind, these examples might not convince the unconverted. Whatever.

This time it was The Public Whip, whereby Francis and Julian inform the average UK citizen on how their MPs are voting in the House of Commons, day in day out, aye and nay. They show rebellions, party discipline ratings, and attendance; there’s a nice cluster, well, not, a MDS map showing where MPs sit in the HoC voting space.

Now, the closest approximation to that until recently was a (fantastic) tool called Tapir, developed by David Firth and Arthur Spirling at Warwick University, which extracts voting data from divisions. Or Phil Cowley’s grinding work over he last few years to keep close track of MPs rebellions. Indespensable for academics.

But wait. The Public Whip is designed to be public, graphic, immediate, portable. Less accurate? Well, take a look for yourself at their FAQ. Not bulletproof, but very, very well thought through. New about new media.

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