“Ian is a highly talented Data Scientist with an outstanding grasp of data in the content, media and audience analytics domains. I was very happy to work with him on a few projects at the FT and found him to be intelligent, friendly, well organised and proactive in unearthing new and interesting stories in data. I highly recommend him to anyone seeking a skilled Data Scientist.”
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McGill Ph.D. BBC's first ever data scientist. Extensive experience in machine learning…
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Firebird won 1st place in an Idea Pitch Competition a couple weeks ago -- see our official post below including a photo of Andreia Sodre Nichols with…
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Some personal news. This will be my last year leading our flagship Reuters Institute Digital News Report and we’re looking for a new lead author to…
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The professional academic journey is a learning, teaching, research and leading multi-objective optimisation challenge that could at same time reward…
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Experience
Education
Licenses & Certifications
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Elasticsearch Essential Training
LinkedIn
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Building NLP Pipelines with spaCy
LinkedIn Learn
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Publications
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Building an Authentic Listener: applying a passive exposure-based learning paradigm to detecting differences among compositional styles
Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies
Collaboration with Frauke Jurgensen, University of Aberdeen
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On providing semantic alignment and unified access to music-library metadata
International Journal on Digital Libraries
Collaboration with Oxford, Goldsmiths
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Extracting Temperaments from Historical Scores using Symbolic Means
MEDREN 2012
Collaboration with Frauke Jurgensen, University of Aberdeen.
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Statistically Investigating Tuning Systems in Symbolic Encodings of Fifteenth-Century Keyboard Music
Medieval Renaissance Music Conference
With Frauke Jurgensen
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Symbolic Music Data Mining
Musical Data Mining. CRC Press.
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The Importance of Services and Genres in Recommendations for Online Radio and Music Programmes
ACM Recommender Systems
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A tutorial on Pattern Discovery in Symbolic Music Information Retrieval
Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
With Eric Nichols
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Identifying Common Melodic Phrases in the Masses of Palestrina
Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 38, No. 2, June 2009.
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Melodic and Harmonic Search Techniques for Large Symbolic Collections of Medieval Music
7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. Jyväskylä, Finland.
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Musical Attractors: A New Method for Audio Synthesis
Proceedings of the 31st Audio Engineering Society International Conference. London, England.
With Eric Nichols
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Towards MusicDiff: A Foundation for Improved Optical Music Recognition using Multiple Recognizers
Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. Vienna, Austria.
With Don Byrd
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Building a search engine for music and audio on the World Wide Web
Ph.D. Dissertation. McGill University, Canada.
Projects
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Nikola Tesla and the End of the World (Online Web Series)
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I'm the assistant director of a web series, now available on Amazon Prime
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Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC)
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