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Q: Binding the textDidChange event on a NSTextField to a MacRuby delegate I have a NSTextField within a Window and I created a very simple MacRuby delegate:
class ServerInputDelegate
    attr_accessor :parent

    def textDidChange(notification)
        NSLog notification.inspect
        parent.filter
    end
end

And I have tried setting the control's delegate:
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I have tried setting the Window and every other object I could think of to this delegate. I have also tried setting it to other delegates (application for instance) and events like applicationDidFinishLaunching are being properly triggered.
Is there any trick I am missing in order for this event to be triggered every time the contents of this NSTextField changes?

A: Subclass NSTextField and then in IB set the Class of the text field you wish to subclass to "ServerInputDelegate." Once you start typing it should autocomplete for you.
class ServerInputDelegate < NSTextField

    def textDidChange(notification)
        NSLog notification.description
        puts self.stringValue
    end

end

result
2010-04-30 14:37:24.810 TextFieldTextChanged[69109:a0f] NSConcreteNotification 0x200350b00 {name = NSTextDidChangeNotification; object = <NSTextView: 0x2003b95e0>
    Frame = {{2.00, 3.00}, {436.00, 17.00}}, Bounds = {{0.00, 0.00}, {436.00, 17.00}}
    Horizontally resizable: YES, Vertically resizable: YES
    MinSize = {436.00, 17.00}, MaxSize = {40000.00, 40000.00}
}

A: textDidChange:, perhaps confusingly, is an NSTextDelegate method, which means it only works for NSText (and therefore NSTextView) objects. For an NSTextField, you should just use the NSControl delegate method controlTextDidChange: No need to subclass.

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Posted on August 26, 2012, in Blog, Translations and tagged Yajima Maimi. Bookmark the permalink.	1 Comment.
When Maimi wrote "Cologne waited by herself in the hallway until I got out of the bath" in this entry, she actually used the counter for people ("hitori") before correcting herself with the counter for small animals ("ippiki"). Unfortunately, I couldn't think of a way to translate that part without getting the rest of the sentence too far away from the original Japanese text.


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What got you into roller derby?
I thought roller derby was a car club when I firsr heard of it. As soon as I realized it was quad skating, I joined up with the san Diego Derby Dolls in 2008; sight unseen!
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The Head of Crime Management at the Criminal Investigation Development (CID) on Pademba Road in Freetown, lawyer M. B. Kamara Esq. has indicated that the Loko tribe is the most peaceful and tolerant in Sierra Leone based on the complaints received by his office, adding that out of the numerous criminal cases brought to him very few Lokos are involved.
Mr. Kamara made this assertion during a one day interactive meeting held by the Lokos on Saturday March 26, 2016 at Boston Community Center, Black Hall Road Kissy-Freetown.
He told the audience that the meeting was timely and necessary since it aim is to consolidate the position of the tribe in communities across the country. He said it is a good initiative for people to bring themselves together despite their religious believes in as much as it geared towards unity and peace.
He called on all the chiefs to work assiduously to maintain unity among their people.
The chairman of the occasion, Mr. Morlai Sesay described the Lokos as unique and most accommodating tribe across Sierra Leone second to the Limbas. He encouraged all and sundry to continue the good work they have already started.
Chief Alimamy Mansaray speaking on behalf of some section chiefs went into the history of the Loko Chieftaincy. Early 60s, he noted, Kandeh Bangura was the the first Loko tribal head at Savage Square. "In 1974 when President Siaka Stevens came into office, he authorized all tribes across the country to elect their representatives," he said.
He added that the Lokos re-elected Kandeh Bangura as the Loko tribal head, but noted however that the election was marred in controversy but they accepted for unity.
The section chief at Television Poll kissy, chief Alhaji Alimamy Sesay said the meeting was to bring the Lokos from hidden to the public especially those living up the Hills and valleys in Freetown. He said the Lokos have a welfare officer, chief Ballie who is charged with the responsibility of taken care of all Lokos across the country when there is a crisis situation.
He stated that chief Alhaji Alpha Sahid Sesay is the 6th Loko chief in Western area and is heading 80 sub-chiefs. He reiterated that the meeting is hoping to bridge gaps between their tribesmen.
The Western area Loko tribal head chief Alhaji Alpha Saidu Sesay appreciated the efforts of all those who made the time out of their busy schedule to attend the meeting. He encouraged his people to come onboard and support their activities morally. He called on the people to maintain peace and unity in their respective communities.
He encouraged the section Chiefs to work in the interest of their people and always forward any difficulty to him whenever they are unable to solve. He praised President Ernest Bai Koroma for the good he has done for the nation. Chief Sesay noted that the meeting is primarily called to promote the activities of the Lokos and to further address their concerns.
Meanwhile, there was jubilation among the people as the meeting turned out into dancing and singing songs in Loko. They thanked their leader for providing the platform for them to met and share concerns. Loko youths showered praises on the Western area chief for the laudable venture which they noted was a timely move taken.


Facts About a Deca Winstrol Stack – Aragon Guide!
A common trait for many of the anabolic steroids is their potential to activate an effective aromatization process. This cause the surplus of testosterone level to be exchanged estrogen. The lesser is actually the estrogen amount in the body during the course of biking, the fewer possibilities to cultivate such unnecessary adverse effects as gyno, ballooning, water loyalty and also others.
Deca Durabolin isn't known as a really fast builder. Deca Durabolin is actually most frequently injected as soon as every week at a dosage of 400 milligrams. By recognizing exactly how Deca Durabolin functions, it is actually feasible to pick various products to stack with, which technique, you can improve the benefits while relieving an amount of the risk factors. Last, Deca Durabolin has actually shown that it possesses positively no task in the reduction of blood insulin sensitivity amounts, very low-density lipoprotein, and triglycerides. Deca Durabolin has lots of benefits for the physical body. Besides the other benefits offered due to the anabolic steroid, Deca relieves discomfort in the junctions, which usually take place due to massive weight training. Deca possesses rather modest steroid-type negative effects and also doesn't have a damaging impact on the liver, to make sure that also individuals with liver issues may use it.
The Deca Winstrol stack is actually a well-used combination of anabolic steroids that deliver advantages for bodybuilders that want to receive a torn, tough appearance.
Deca Durabolin is a 19-Nor substance that causes strong increases in muscle with low incident of estrogenic or androgenic adverse effects.
Taking Deca in mixture along with your Winstrol or even Stanozolol dosages can trigger bend muscle mass increases in addition to enhancements in rate and toughness.
Winstrol is most often utilized as a reducing solution and also Deca is a bulking substance thus piling them could certainly not be one of the most organic trait worldwide, yet there have actually been actually a lot of good results mentioned from this pile. Visit here to get lawful Winsol online, over the counter.
Deca Durabolin is actually a spin-off of nandrolone, likewise named 19-nortestosterone. A wonderful attribute of this training class of steroids is their low sale oestrogen amount compare to testosterone level. Moments back when aromatization preventions were certainly not cultivated, choosing such a medicine was especially vital, as it helped to always keep estrogen amount in regular limitations.
Our experts evolved, there are numerous aromatization inhibitors on the market, yet Deca remains a simple medication for all anabolic steroid individuals because of its excellent moisturized results on joints.
Piling Deca as well as Winstrol is actually additionally extremely popular. A Deca as well as Winstrol pattern is among one of the most widely known heaps around the world because of it being actually extremely moderate and safer than many different stacks on the market. Deca is actually one of the most popular steroids taken advantage of through body builders today, given that it displays notable anabolic impacts with low androgenic edge outcomes. Combining Deca along with Anavar is actually an excellent method to enhance muscular tissue mass relatively securely. Deca is actually moderately androgenic as well as thoroughly anabolic. Deca blended with Masteron isn't a famous combo. Deca isn't a really tough androgen, essentially. It is far better to carry on conducting Deca for a couple of weeks after the androgen has been actually stopped so as to decrease the bloat. All over the planet, Deca is actually amongst the most prominent anabolic steroids.
Winstrol's dental variation has structural (c17-AA) change that supplies greater pressure on the liver rather than injectable form of Winstrol that assists in preventing the 1st elapsed easily.
This drug can easily have some adverse results on the amount of cholesterol levels and also it can lessen the HDL and also improvement LDL at once with its own lower dosage also.
Individuals that are experiencing cholesterol issues are advised to use this drug along with care and treatment.
Winstrol is certainly not suggested to girls, that are actually experiencing hypercalcemia as well as bosom cancer, guys along with bust cancer or even who are actually inclined to possess prostate cancer cells and also ladies who are expectant or even nursing ought to avoid it.
The absolute most significant element regarding WINSTROL, the injectable kind of the medicine is that it is not like various other typical anabolic steroids that dissolve in oil.
Instead, it is soluble in water. The majority of body builders who make use of anabolic steroid frequently or are experienced within this drug understand this dissimilarity and can effortlessly identify the artificial medication.
You need to maintain the period much shorter if you are actually using it in treatment type.
It implies that you should utilize WINSTROL in 50 Milligrams dosage regularly than some other anabolic steroids that are liquified in oil including Parabolan, Primobolan, Sustanon 250 and Deca-Durabolin.
The main reason responsible for the exact same is actually that anabolic steroids possess half of life. Steroids that are conveniently dissolvable in water must be actually shot on a daily basis and also you can discover its own greatest end result by using it in dose of 50 mg injection.
The steroid will not offer conditioning results like Trenbolone, Anavar, or Winstrol, yet nonetheless, it can be valuable. Steroids that are actually conveniently soluble in water must be injected every day, and you might find its own greatest result by utilizing it in dose of 50 mg treatment. If you want to go on and also utilize anabolic steroids, satisfy find a medical doctor and acquire weekly examinations done online to protect that your physical body is actually well-balanced. Fairly merely, on the occasion that you make use of an anabolic steroid, then you'll acquire durability and burn body fat at the local time. Worldwide, it is one of the best common injectable steroids. If you offer your body an enough amount of testosterone level, adverse side effects should not take place. The majority of individuals will desire a longer-lasting testosterone after they have actually located a stack that benefit all of them, so as to lessen the series of shots necessary, etc. Just development bodily hormones can trigger a considerable increase in IGF-1 besides dental anabolic steroids. There are actually 3 hormones that are actually required at the identical time in order to enable for maximum anabolic effect. It will certainly assist a whole lot, but you need to likewise make use of some kind of body fat heater. At a minimum required, regardless of the Deca Durabolin doses you decide on, the hormone should be used for a lowest of 8 weeks to locate any kind of good end results.
These individuals take the safe stack that typically performs not result in any type of adverse effects. This way, brand new individuals of anabolic steroid can stay clear of taking harder medication that they carry out certainly not require at the existing phase.
This medicine is actually an anabolic steroid that possesses sensible and also androgenic effect that is actually presented by using 50 mg of dosage by ladies and also in greater dose by men.
Females athletes normally encounter the issue when they use in 50 mg in treatment model two times in a week.
WINSTROL effects acquire minimized after few days so a shot pair of times in a week proves out. Girls may feel the complication of androgens boost in urganism that trigger them to cultivate masculinisation signs.
Winstrol V certainly causes strengthening of voice in females. Each males and females can likewise encounter the non-androgenic side effects that feature aches, change in LDL as well as HDL as well as hassles.
They additionally really feel high blood pressure some times. Injection version of Winstrol may not lead to liver damage if enjoyed lesser dosage having said that higher dose can easily boost the liver worths.
Winstrol Deca cycles may have a little greater dangers of adverse effects so this is one thing you need to have to get ready for.
You might wish to attempt making use of each of these very first by themselves just before seeking a Deca Winstrol pile of any dose.


Walk into any RIT-hosted event and you'll find many choices of canned sodas or maybe even juice. One thing is missing, though: bottled water.
The reason for this dates back to an RIT policy established in 2012. The policy disallowed university funds to be spent on single servings of bottled water, which can sound like an agreeable idea when considering the economic, environmental and social issues with bottled water. The tap water at RIT comes from Hemlock Lake, an undeveloped water source, which "is of high quality and is at least 2000% less expensive than bottled water," according to a 2012 report by the Camps Environmental Committee at RIT.
The policy was eventually passed, and in the years since, it seems to have fallen off the radar of the RIT community. Few have questioned why, despite the policy's original timeline, bottled water is still present in most of the dining locations and vending machines on campus, including the vending machine in the sustainability building. Additionally, little question has been raised within the community as to what impacts the portions of the policy that have been enacted have had thus far. It is time for a review.
The bottled water policy was one of Enid Cardinal's first assignments when she was hired as RIT's Senior Sustainability Advisor, handed directly to her by President Destler himself. Nonetheless, it has been a long process.
"It wasn't something I was going to move forward on without input from everyone," said Cardinal.
There are reasonable exceptions to the policy, including when tap water is of questionable quality. Additionally, the policy allowed for Dining Services to continue to sell bottled water in vending machines, retail locations and at sporting events. However, the policy stipulated that "after the current vending contract expires, no new contracts for bottled water will be entered into."
This section was published in 2012 with the rest of the policy. Just two years later, in 2014, RIT entered into a new contract with Coca-Cola after the campus's contract with Pepsi expired and new brands of bottled water appeared on campus. Cardinal explained that, despite straying from the original policy, the new contract was entered into with a plan in mind.
Construction code has been updated so that hydration stations are included in all new buildings. In addition, many water fountains have been retrofitted to easily refill reusable water bottles, but there is still more work to be done. While Cardinal has a priority list of buildings to add hydration stations to, many buildings, such as the residence halls, do not have the proper plumbing in place. Adding hydration stations to those buildings would come at a great cost to the university.
In years to come, Cardinal, members of RIT Dining Services, Coca-Cola and other partners will slowly work to reduce the presence of bottled water on campus, and to someday fully adhere to the original policy. In the meantime, some issues have been raised with the policy, and some question whether the goals of the policies have been reached or should be reevaluated.
Molly Rockford and Karlee Bushnell are both fourth year Nutrition Management majors and co-presidents of the Student Dietetic Association (SDA). They were interviewed just a week after an event they put on encouraging students to drink more water and less sugary beverages.
Both students carry around their water bottles everywhere. But Rockford and Bushnell worry that some other students are not as readily prepared with water bottles in hand, or as willing to search out water fountains.
This is one of the issues with the policy: events are not able to provide single serving bottles of water, which leads some event managers to provide no water at all.
"One of the commitments we also made was that we weren't going to force users to make a choice between sugary beverages and remove the healthier water option," said Cardinal about writing the policy. The bottled water policy even states "For all other catered operations, bottled water will be replaced with bulk water." But this is not always the case. Some events now go without water and instead only serve soda products.
The lack of water is usually observed at events catered by off-campus organizations and by students themselves. Guests to campus, students new to event planning and outside caterers alike seem to struggle the most with understanding the policy and providing water.
Raethka was working for Brick City Catering before the policy change and noticed that they went from ordering 20 cases of water a week to about 5 cases in the last year. Instead, they have moved to providing water in large, clear containers consistent with the RIT policy.
Cardinal advises organizations providing beverages without Brick City Catering to follow a similar strategy. Bulk water was intentionally unmentioned in the policy so that events could still have the option of buying water, although Cardinal hopes that people will seek other alternatives. She also mentions that some departments have started ordering their own reusable pitchers and containers for water.
Brick City Catering also offers lemonade and iced tea in bulk containers, and has started offering infused water as a healthier bulk option as of this past fall. As for soda, they switched from 20 ounce bottles to 12 ounce after noticing that there were often many half-empty bottles left at the end of the night, according to Raethka. These smaller bottles have been beneficial in many ways. "It provides us with more space in our storage facilities and our coolers, it's less waste and less things going into the recycling stream," said Raethka. But to some, the permissions for single-serving bottled soda over water seems contradictory.
Kevin Kane, a third year Business Management major and manager for Cardinal's sustainability team, had similar thoughts. "I do think it's a little weird that bottled soda is still okay, because then at these events on campus, there's Coke and Diet Coke and Sprite, and it's everywhere, and there's these really dense bottles that have a lot more plastic than bottled water bottles do because they have to contain the carbonation," he explained.
Even after removing bottles, there will always need to be a vessel to contain beverages, and there is still waste associated with that. Some see the removal of bottled water, or any other bottled beverage, as an infringement on their choices. Or it may simply throw them too far out of their comfort zones. For some, it can be strange to trust tap water if they are from a place where it isn't of great quality. Those used to bottled water may not be happy if it were suddenly removed from campus.
Evan Zackary, a fourth year Environmental Sustainability, Health and Safety major and a member of both the Student Government's Sustainability Committee and the Student Environmental Action League (SEAL), understands the need for a conscientious transition. "You can't make the transition to being more sustainable unpleasant, or people disengage and go to Wegmans and buy like pallets of bottled beverages, and you've taken steps backwards," he explained.
Determining how to make the transition pleasant involves addressing concerns about nutrition and worries about either not going far enough or going too far with reducing plastic bottles. Looking into the future of the policy and implementation, it is important that these factors are taken into consideration.
Kory Samuels, the executive director of Dining Services, agrees with Cardinal on the next steps. "The next piece of it as of now would be to limit flat bottled water beverages in our retail locations, and we've started right now with concessions. I don't think we really publicized that, but every concessions we have from Ritter to the [Gordon Field House] to Polisseni, we don't sell base bottled water." This may be a change that students have not noticed either due to the availability of options or the fact that Smart Water is considered a value-added product, not water.
"You can get a Smart Water or other enhanced water beverages, but we do not sell Dasani water," said Samuels. The added electrolytes in Smart Water are enough to differentiate it from water out of the tap, according to Cardinal and Samuels, meaning that the policy doesn't apply to it.
Students interviewed for this article, though, viewed Smart Water and others as one in the same. McQuay saw the difference between the two but mentioned that "within the waters, there's water that's enhanced with electrolytes, things of that nature, which really aren't necessary for normal people. I mean you really have to be working out for better than an hour to have to replace those electrolytes … but for most people, just plain water is fine." The issue of Smart Water versus other waters brings back the question of whether or not all bottled beverages should be removed from campus.
For the next steps, he believes that we should start pulling bottled water from our shelves in locations whose products you sit down to eat and drink directly after purchase, like Brick City and the concessions stands, which Samuels and Cardinal also believe in. All three also agree that snack locations like the Corner Store, where products are often bought to consume at a later time, should go through the transition from bottled beverages later.
"Long term vision is 20 years from now, every building has hydration stations in it so you don't have to worry about this," Cardinal said. "It will probably take that long to get to some of the buildings that are harder to update, 10 years at least." Ten to twenty years from now is a much longer timeline for implementation than the original proposal, which set the removal of water bottles on campus to the end of the Pepsi contract in 2014. One of the main barriers standing in the way is ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to access water as an option. From Cardinal's perspective, there is just not equal access yet, leading her to believe that it is important to keep water in most campus vending machines, at least until that point is reached.
In the end, Cardinal and her team are trying to make the policy work for the campus while avoiding any negative impacts, although it can be difficult to predict consequences.
"As much as we want to do all our research and talk with folks before we get our stuff done we also don't want to be in a standstill for the next 20 years," said Samuels. Their teams are planning to take their time, but they are moving, and it appears that the teams need to be receptive to others' perspectives if they want to make their voices heard.


My sudden drop in Instagram activity must have alerted even the folks at Instagram, that something must be seriously wrong =)) So first of all, let me start by saying sorry for being so MIA. I suddenly fell sick a couple of days ago and have had no energy to move or even talk much for that matter. After being holed up in the house for 3 whole days – I decided to yank myself out of my slumber. I cannot even begin to tell you how much power a little dressup in a cute outfit and red lipstick has – I felt like a brand new person – all in control! That's what playing dressup is about to me! About transforming into to your happy self.
It was sudden and so scary! Its times like these that put things in perspective. Everything on my to-do list had to take a back-seat. All I wanted to do was to be at home, talk to my family back home, sit with my husband and cry! Its funny – how in its own weird, sometimes painful(!) and smart way – life teaches us so many lessons. So easy delve on the pain and let that take over and completely miss what this tiny road bump is telling us. I got this gentle reminder from life to take things slow, not worry too much because lets face it – we can't control everything and focus on whatever makes us happy!
I have been thinking and worrying too much about the future. About the next thing. The next post that's gonna go up on the blog. The upcoming content for Instagram. The next vacation. The next step at work. The RESULT. It bothers me that I can't get to answer inspite of knowing all variables of the equation. When x amount of hard-work is combined with y portions of commitment – what will the final value of z be? Turns out – "z" is the biggest variable. The MASSIVE UNKNOWN. The realization that there's not much I can do about it, that makes me feel weak – not in control.
It has been bugging me a lot lately. Taking away from the positive – taking over the EFFORT. The fun and contentment from the DOING. Whenever I have taken up something – I have given it everything I can. My 200%. All IN or FOLD! I can't let it affect me now. Its not an epiphany but a conscious decision. A learning!
Today isn't a significant day by any means – no birthday or anniversary or first day of school or spring. But I have decided to MAKE IT SIGNIFICANT. To think about the future – but not be overwhelmed by it. To be happy. To take CONTROL of happiness.


This column is usually about physical activity because that is a crucial component for healthy societies. Today, let's look at preventing serious long-term health concerns for children and young adults.
The Hawai'i Public Health Institute ("HIPHI") guides Hawai'i's efforts to reduce tobacco addition. Under HIPHI, I serve as Tobacco-Free Kaua'i's chair, so please feel free to contact me at (808) 639-1018 for more information on our various collaborative efforts to prevent and reduce tobacco use.
Although illegal for anyone under 21 years of age, vaping is alarmingly popular among children in our high, middle, and even elementary schools. Vaping is attractive because of the sweet flavors that children love. Many parents assume vaping is a safe alternative to smoking cigarettes. Following is text from HIPHI's informational printed card titled, What You(th) Need to Know About Vaping: Is It Smoke or Is It Vapor? Vaping and/or using e-cigarettes IS smoking. "Smoke" is defined as "a suspension of particles in a gas." When you heat e-juice, it produces a visible suspension of particles also known as smoke. And, just like cigarettes, these ultra-fine particles when inhaled deep into a person's lungs are hazardous to health and to the health of those around you.
E-juice is a mixture of the chemicals propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, and nicotine. Additional chemicals are then added to produce all the different synthetic flavors that entice customers. When heated, this chemical cocktail produces dangerous chemical byproducts that can cause cancer, heart disease, asthma, and other breathing problems.
Nicotine is NOT safe for anyone, and it's especially unsafe for youth. Since a child's brain is developing through adolescence, nicotine use during childhood and teen years disrupts the formation of brain circuits that control attention span and the ability to learn. It can also lead to poisoning and addiction.
Health issues aside, there is a lot of money at stake in this matter. Try to imagine how much a person who is addicted to nicotine will spend over a lifetime buying e-juice, electronic smoking devices, cigarettes or other tobacco products. This class of consumers is highly attractive to businesses selling products to a captive audience, including online, and so the tobacco industry will go to any lengths to entice young customers, including deceptive advertising.
Let's look at solutions to this pernicious public health threat.
Education is key. Parents and children must understand the serious and potentially life-threatening implications of tobacco addiction. Kaua'i Community Coalition Coordinator Valerie Saiki heads up Tobacco-Free Kaua'i, and she is ready and willing to present to classrooms and organizations on tobacco and electronic smoking device education. Please reach out to her through e-mail: valerie@hiphi.org.


The rise of social media has been important; that is no great revelation. It has wrought profound social change, buffeted our institutions and altered, for many of us, our way of life. New identities, dialects, cultures, affiliations and movements have all bloomed and spread across the digital world, and spilled out of it into mainstream public life.
Back in 2012, we at Demos could see that social media was changing research too. The transfer of social activity onto digital spaces was 'datafying' social life. Huge new datasets were being routinely created that we saw as treasure troves of behavioural evidence: often very large, in real-time, rich, linked and unmediated. It was a massive new opportunity to learn about how people and society worked.
Unlocking these datasets presented an enormous challenge. The sheer scale of social media data also meant that conventional social research methods couldn't cope. Powerful new analytical techniques - modelling, entity extraction, machine learning, algorithmic clustering - were needed to make sense of what was happening. However, the true challenge wasn't a technological one alone. It was how to deploy the new tools of data science in the service of social science. Getting better at counting people is not the same as getting better at understanding them.
We established the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media that brought together social and policy researchers at Demos, and technologists from the University of Sussex with the explicit aim of confronting this challenge. The first layer of the challenge has been the technology itself. The tools of big data analysis needed to be put into the hands of non-technical researchers: the subject matter experts who have long understood social science, and now needed to be able to do it in a new way. We built a technology platform, Method52, which allowed non-technical users to use a graphical user interface, and drag-and-drop components to flexibly conduct big data analytics, rather than be faced with a screen full of code. Especially important was to make accessible a vitally important technique called natural language processing. Coupled with machine learning, it is one of the crucial ways of understanding bodies of primarily text-based data (like Tweets or Facebook posts) that are too large to manually read.
However, any technology - even one that learns - is just a tool and the second layer has been to learn how to slot all the technology into a broader social scientific methodology. We've just concluded a major study with the pollsters Ipsos MORI, on how to use tools like natural language processing within a broader framework that stands up to social scientific scrutiny. Much of this has been to develop a process of big data analysis that cares about the same things that social science cares about: the introduction of possible biases in how the data is sampled and collected; the non-representative skews in who uses social media; the danger of analyst pre-conceptions and bias in how the data is measured and handled; the difficulty of measuring at great scale the textured complex utterances of people in specific social contexts and the importance of interpreting the results in the light of the norms, cultures, languages and practices of social media itself.
But even beyond this, the third layer has been get social science to govern the whole endeavour: the questions that are asked, the implications that are drawn, how the research is used, and, of course, the ethical frameworks that control its use.
The big data revolution will not slow down, it will only gather pace. The scales of data will only increase, and the technologies and techniques to harness data are becoming more capable and powerful at a bewildering rate. To my mind, this means that social science - qualitative as well as quantitative - has never been more important. It has never been more crucial to point out the inherent difficulties in studying people in all their messy and chaotic complexity, all the pitfalls of reducing human behaviour into something that can be counted and aggregated, and of how understanding society doesn't stop with a series of raw metrics, however large they are.
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In this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast Ronan went to the NDRC to chat to the NDRC CEO, Ben Hurley and Conall Laverty, the founder of Wia. the provider of a service for developers building Internet of Things applications. Wia recently won €30,000 follow on investment at NDRC's recent Investor Day. Conall talks about IoT, Wia, wearables, Raspberry Pi and that they are hiring. Ben talks about the recent NDRC Investor Day, some of the programs that the NDRC run and what they look for in a start-up.