James Frost

Site Reliability Engineer based in London

May 7, 2022

Best Practices for On-Call Processes

Save your engineers sleep

Many technology companies have an ongoing commitment to their customers to guarantee reliability and uptime, with service level agreements that guarantee to resolve or escalate incidents within a particular time frame.

May 1, 2017

Sky Sports Social Team of the Week

I know nothing about football, but I can analyse Twitter data.

The idea of a ‘Team of the Week’ is simple; choose a team of players to highlight the best performances of the past week. Usually, this team is chosen by a pundit. However, Sky Sports have teamed up with Blurrt to produce the ‘Social Team of the Week’, decided by...

April 11, 2017

Exploring the Challenges of Entity Specific Sentiment Scoring

A problem with traditional sentiment analysis is that it lacks context; it typically only gives an overall sentiment value for the text. This isn’t particularly insightful as people can express different opinions (positive/negative) about different subjects within one body of text. For example:

August 7, 2016

A Better Search Algorithm For Natural Language Processing

Improving the performance of natural language processing search algorithms.

A large part of my job involves natural language processing. What I repeatedly find myself doing is searching through large lists of regular expressions, and doing something based on the expressions that have been matched.

June 25, 2016

Twitter Visuals For ITV's EU Referendum Coverage

My code has been run on live TV; has yours?

Blurrt were asked by Twitter to help them visualise the conversation around the EU referendum for ITV. Several of our live data visuals were shown on live TV throughout the night.