Jed Hallam

Posts Tagged ‘creativity’

Sentiment analysis and the problem with computational analysis

Sentiment analysis is, for me, one of the most annoying phrases in the world (as you may have seen me tweet to Matt the other day). Whenever I hear someone mention it I picture two guys in cheap suits speaking to a group of board members at a big brand explaining complicated graphs and pointing [...]

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‘Magic doesn’t happen in an echochamber’

 FastCompany, July 2010

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Goodbye, farewell, but not for very long!

Hello. If you read Becca’s blog or my Twitter feed you’ll have realised by now that we’re going on holiday. It’s our first holiday since September 2009 so we’re understandably quite excited. By quite excited, we packed our suitcases last Friday. We don’t fly until Wednesday. Excited is an understatement. So we’ll be leaving for [...]

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Creative ideas: seven steps to have more

Creativity is something that you cultivate, not something that you’re born with. At least that’s what I was told at University. Look how that turned out… I’ve been doing a lot of data manipulation and analysis recently, so when I have to switch my right side on it can be a bit challenging. So I’ve [...]

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What happens when you switch off?

As some of you may already know, I was off the grid for most of this week and spent five days in Center Parcs with my friends. It’s been the first time I’ve been (almost) totally offline since I went travelling and I was a bit apprehensive really – I know, I know.

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Where I Find My Inspiration

After begging with Ben Matthews to be tagged (he eventually stooped to tagging me as ‘Jeddy H’ something only three people in my life call me!) in Ged Carroll’s meme regarding where his inspiration for blog posts comes from. Since then loads of people have been tagged and loads of people have given really interesting [...]

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