Martin O'Shea
Present
Having completed an MSc Advanced Information Systems at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London during 2007, I am presently a PhD student under Prof Mark Levene's supervision in the areas of mining and visualising information from RSS feeds.
During the first half of 2010, most of my time was taken up with analysing the results of an experiment for the Search engines and web navigation module of the department's MSc courses, which saw 35 students use dedicated software to mine and visualise meaningful data from RSS feeds: the results of this experiment were published in Mining and visualising information from RSS feeds: a case study in June 2011.
My current work is in extending this work into an application for exploring and visualising keywords in RSS feeds within a social data framework. This new application, called visualRSS, will be ready during December 2011.
My second supervisor is Dr Dell Zhang.
Since 2008, I have also worked as a Teaching Assistant at Birkbeck currently responsible for various modules including:
- Information system concepts
- Maintaining personal web pages
- Software and programming I
- Search engines and web technologies: Part of this module during 2011 requires students to build their own web sites and these can be seen here.
I have also worked on the ProCeSS project under the leadership of Dr Julia Stegemann.
Past
I have spent the best part of the last decade working as an analyst / programmer (developer) for various companies primarily using fourth-generation code-generating tools for the Windows PC and IBM AS400 mid-range platforms to extend and develop financial and retail business systems. I was also involved in the development of 'browser-based' software.
These roles have both required extensive liaison with project managers, business analysts and end users throughout the software development cycle to translate requirements into working systems.
Prior to this, I graduated with a BSc Computer Science from the University of North London in 1998, now London Metropolitan University.
Publications
- M. O'Shea, J. A. Stegemann and M. Levene: Monolith2 - An On-line Database for Cement/Waste Products at International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software Conference 2008.
- M. O'Shea and M. Levene: Mining and visualising information from RSS feeds: a case study, published June 2011 by the International Journal of Web Information Systems.
Other Interests
Foremost amongst my interests is the pen-and-ink drawing of historical buildings and artefacts, some of which can be seen here.
 martin@dcs.bbk.ac.uk |
or at the address below: |
London Knowledge Lab 23-29 Emerald Street London WC1N 3QS United Kingdom |