“Cyanomap” was a small application I wrote to automatically compile and map outbreaks of cyanobacterial blooms and other associated news with the help of the Yahoo Placemaker and Yahoo News API services. Both Yahoo services have since closed,
Category: Geoanalysis
Azerbaijan for Eurovision victory?
My probability model of Eurovision Song Contest voting is predicting victory for Azerbaijan in tonight’s contest in Oslo. The model has a high success rate but this year the contest is more open than normal with several countries in with a shout. Predictions for the top-10 are: 1. Azerbaijan 1.14 2. Armenia 1.56 3. Israel […]
Song Contest 2009
The outcome of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest taking place in Moscow tonight, May 16th, will be (according to our computer model): 1. Norway 0.7 2. Greece 1.7 3. Turkey 4.5 4. Ukraine 5.8 5. Azerbaijan 6.4 6. Bosnia Herzegovina 7.0 7. United Kingdom 9.6 8. Iceland 16.2 9. Finland 17.3 10. Armenia 19.6 With the number indicating the country’s “odds” of actually winning the contest. Norway […]
Norway 12 UK 0
The first run of our “Eurovisionomics” model for 2009 indicates that Norway are clear favourites to win the Eurovision Song Contest next month in Moscow. The model predicts another disappointment for the UK with a finish in the bottom half of the results table suggested. The model takes into account various factors including performance in […]
Norway 12 UK 0
The first run of our “Eurovisionomics” model for 2009 indicates that Norway are clear favourites to win the Eurovision Song Contest next month in Moscow. The model predicts another disappointment for the UK with a finish in the bottom half of the results table suggested. The model takes into account various factors including performance in […]
Tag clouds – data visualisation
A tag cloud or word cloud is a visual representation of the relative word content of a website or feed. The word cloud displayed in this post is computer-generated every 6 hours to display the most frequently appearing words in headlines concerned with the ‘environment’ from 12 international news organisations. Each organisation is likely to […]
Eurovisionomics
Following Russia’s victory in the Eurovision Song Contest our prediction proved surprisingly correct and was picked up by various media outlets as further evidence of neighbourly voting ruining the contest and the chances of nations like the UK from ever winning again. The Eurovisionomics analysis had looked at those countries who’d received unusually high scores […]