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The Smart Pop-Up Wine Shop demo

Gonzalo Garcia-Perate — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:17:05 +0000

This Wednesday and Thursday I’m very excited to be running a demo of my final PhD project, something I’ve spent the past few months designing, building and testing. The project is a Smart Pop-Up Wine Shop, a shop that learns from its customers’ behaviour and recommends wines based on their popularity. Smart Pop-Up Wine Shop [...]

My Carbon and Energy Hack Weekend Project: Realtime Ambient Energy Display for nº10 Downing Street

Gonzalo Garcia-Perate — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:13:24 +0000

The weekend before last was Rewired State’s Carbon and Energy Hack Weekend I previously mentioned the event and my plans for it. I did not get the chance to spend both days that weekend working on my project, I decided to retake the project this weekend and put the finishing touches to it. My aim [...]

Work plan for Carbon and Energy Hack Weekend

Gonzalo Garcia-Perate — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:04:00 +0000

This weekend is Rewired State: Carbon and Energy Hack Weekend an event organised by 10:10, The Guardian and Rewired State with the aim of putting people together under one roof to develop applications around Energy and Carbon. The event is formatted so people can either arrive with a project to develop, or can lend a [...]

John Tukey, the Bit and Box plot

Gonzalo Garcia-Perate — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:39:01 +0000

While working with John von Neumann on early computer designs, John Tukey introduced the word “bit” as a contraction of “binary digit”. The term “bit” was first used in an article by Claude Shannon in 1948. The term “software”, which Paul Niquette claims he coined in 1953, was first used in print by Tukey in [...]

The Cognitive Bias Video Song

Gonzalo Garcia-Perate — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:34:31 +0000

Here is an excerpt of the brilliant “Cognitive Bias Son” I’m Biased because I knew it all along. Hindsight Bias! I knew it all along! I’m Bias because I put you in a category in which you may or may not belong. Representativeness Bias: don’t stereotype! I’m bias because of a small detail that throws [...]