School of Computer Science and Statistics
Are the connections between the Star Wars characters more than meets the eye? In this project, data on interactions between Star Wars characters (from an episode of the students choosing) are studied through the lens of latent space models. This model can construct a latent social space that reveals the underlying structure of this iconic … Read more
In the last decade, Airbnb has become a mainstay for tourists worldwide. In this project, we will use data from insideairbnb.com to obtain a better geographic understanding of Dublin. Which parts are expensive or reasonable to rent? Where do tourists like to stay, and in what type of accommodation? We will study these issues using … Read more
A general purpose processor (CPU) uses a pre-defined instruction-set architecture (ISA) to run common workloads with a reasonable performance. For certain workloads, this performance is CPU-bound, meaning that the pre-defined instructions are not able to use the silicon efficiently. In such cases, an accelerator including GPUs or FPGAs would be appropriate to improve the performance … Read more
Using timelines to visualise critical data is particularly useful for domain experts to examine and analyse a wide range of data. For example for Historians a timeline visualisation such as seen in the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (https://timelines.virtualtreasury.ie/timelines/) is really helpful. This user interface was developed a number of years ago, and the intention … Read more