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Complexity in the Digital Humanities
I am organising a small one-day workshop on “Complexity in the Digitial Humanities”, which promises to be an exciting event. We will have three very interesting keynote speakers: Marcel Ausloos, Diego...
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Seminar on community structure
I get to present my work on community structure Thursday 30 October at the e-Humanities group at the Meertens institute. Especially a good occasion to present my most recent results on “significant...
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Significance in random graphs, trees and lattices
\(\) Many complex graphs seem to contain some sort of community structure, representing a microscopic scale of organisation of the network. Nonetheless, many graphs do not seem to have any particular...
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Easy, flexible framework for community detection
\(\) Let me start off by saying that working with igraph through its python bindings has been a great relieve! Although its R bindings seem to be much popular, I much prefer python over R. It’s not...
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Using ColorBrewer in TikZ and pgfplots
Update: This package is no longer needed, as pgfplots now supports ColorBrewer schemes out of the box. Please see the latest version of pgfplots. Choosing what colours to use for your plotting...
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Boogie Board
I just bought myself a Boogie Board. The idea is that it simply replaces pen and paper. I don’t know how many of you have ever tried writing on a tablet, but that’s quite a painful process, and never,...
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When disaster strikes
This time just a link to a post I wrote for my institute’s blog. Just a little piece on how mobile phones could potentially help in emergency situations. You can read it here...
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Plot multiple files using pgfplots
Often, I like to plot multiple versions of some results. For example, I run some simulations for multiple parameters, or test a bunch of different methods. Although it is of course no problem to create...
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Easy, flexible and fast framework for community detection.
\(\) Good news! In an earlier post, I talked about my flexible implementation of the Louvain algorithm in Python. Now, it is also available in a C++ implementation, making it run much (really much)...
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Power blocs & social balance in the Middle East
The Middle East is currently ablaze with a variety of conflicts. A civil war is raging in Syria, in which already hundreds of thousands of people died and millions of people had to flee from their...
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