$ ls -l ~/software
I try to put everything I build out in the open, so others can use it — and, with a bit of luck, help me make it better. Grab the code on GitHub, open an issue, send a pull request.
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Collaborative concept maps for classrooms and research groups.
A free and open source tool for defining ideas precisely, naming how they relate and arguing about the connections together. Concepts carry shared definitions, links between them are typed (such as “part of” or “depends on”), and every link has its own discussion thread.
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Stories, sounds and images about cicadas and fireflies, contributed by the public.
A participatory storytelling platform made with PianetaLab. Contributors pick a cicada or a firefly, choose to share an audio recording, a written story or an image, and review their submission before it joins the archive: cicadas for exoskeletons and emergence, fireflies for signals, sparkles and summer nights.
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Responsible Modelling Under Uncertainty: a two-day workshop in Exeter and online.
The site for Responsible Modelling Under Uncertainty (23–24 September 2026, Exeter and online), a workshop on how to build and communicate models responsibly when uncertainty cannot be eliminated, only framed and interpreted — and how to make it visible, usable and open to challenge. Talks, panels and hands-on exercises with speakers including Erica Thompson, Andy Stirling, Andrea Saltelli and David Spiegelhalter.
Courier stories from three European cities, behind the moving dot on the map.
The work in the gig economy is characterised by opacity and alienation, digital platforms effectively hiding from view the intensive human labour that enables our daily instant gratifications. For platform food couriers, this hidden work is concealed behind a dot moving on and across a map, deprived of identity or history. Using graphic illustrations, GIS data and audio diaries, this interactive multimedia platform gathers courier stories from Manchester, Cluj and Lyon to problematise the discourses of flexibility, independence and entrepreneurship surrounding gig work. Part of the research project Doing Gig Work.
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Social-media sentiment alongside the ecological status of 450+ rivers in the Thames basin.
People talk about rivers online: from complaints about pollution to celebrations of wildlife, rivers provoke passionate social media comments. When people express their feelings about rivers on Twitter, we get a glimpse of how nature affects human wellbeing. The dashboard displays social media sentiment alongside data about the ecological status of more than 450 rivers in the Thames basin in England. A prototype developed by the University of Oxford and Thames21.
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An R interface to the A/B Street transport simulation and network editing software.
abstr converts origin–destination data, combined with data on buildings representing origin and destination locations, into .json files that can be imported directly into the A/B Street city simulation. See the formats page in the A/B Street documentation for details of the schema the package outputs.
Programmatic access to the Environment Agency catchment planner.
eaCatcheR provides an interface to data from the environment.data.gov.uk catchment planner, a resource for spatial and ecological datasets on waterbodies in England. Three main functions — get_wb_rnag(), get_wb_classification() and get_wb_sf() — retrieve data by geography type (e.g. RBD, MC, OC) and name.
Ten global air-quality datasets from the WHO Data Integration Task Force.
Datasets provided by members of the Data Integration Task Force, a multi-disciplinary group established following the first meeting of the WHO Global Platform for Air Quality (Geneva, 2014): a WHO world map, yearly global ground-monitor stations, population-weighted PM2.5 concentrations, yearly exceedances by country, and global predictions for 2011–2016 at 0.1° × 0.1° resolution.