Profile
Dr Rudy Arthur
Lecturer in Data Science
Background
I am currently a lecturer in Data Science. I did a BA in Computational Physics in Trinity College Dublin and a PhD in Physics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 2012. Since then I've worked in academia and industry as a physicist and bioinformatician. I started work at the University of Exeter in 2017 as a researcher and was promoted to lecturer in 2019.
Research Interests
My research focusses on the interplay between geography and social networks. Some projects I am involved in or have been involved in are:
- Using social media data to provide forecast verification data and now-casting during natural catastrophes, like floods and storms.
- Using social network analysis to study the growth and spread of an organization of small farmers in East Africa.
- Studying how clusters of dense connections in social media reply networks map onto physical locations, and what that tells us about people's online and offline communication.
I am also involved in the IoC C3 project, which aims to help people understand and navigate the digital job market.
Teaching
I teach ECMM 455 Introduction to Data Science and ECM 3433 Data Analysis 1
Links
Publications: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=yHf0w3gAAAAJ&hl=en
Github: https://github.com/rudyarthur
Blog (defunct): http://usediscretion.blogspot.com/
SEDA lab: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/seda-lab/