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Andrew Taylor

Hello! I'm Andrew, and I have this website full of stuff. I'm also on Twitter and .

My witterings

My blog is really just a space for me to vent and to post things I think are interesting. Despite this, I occasionally get a bit carried away, to the point that Ben Goldacre called me "frighteningly anal". In the Guardian.

Jump Leads is a science-fiction comedy webcomic devised by my friend Ben and for which I have written at least one issue. It's somewhere between Sliders, Doctor Who and Red Dwarf.

Other writing: I've been a bit prolific elsewhere, and I use this page to keep track of it all.

Other things on this website

The Connecting Wall is a game from BBC4's Only Connect game show. Their version requires Flash; mine is entirely CSS and JavaScript, so it should run on your telephone.

My Stupid Formulæ talk is a round-up, discussion and piss-take of the ridiculous "scientists find the mathematical formula for the perfect sandwich/​Christmas​/marriage/​parking" stories that PR companies still manage to sneak into newspapers.

Gravity is a game not unlike Worms or Angry Birds. Two players take turns hurling missiles at each other. The twist is that the missiles must travel through (or round) a solar system, where each planet exerts its own gravitational pull.

Dr Andrew Taylor

Hello. I'm Andrew, and I'm a computer whisperer and codemonger. I bend computers to my will. I'm on LinkedIn, if you are (or even if you're not).

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Skills

Web Design and Development: I understand how to build an HTML/CSS website that looks pretty on a computer, scales well on a phone, and still works for disabled users running contrast enhancers or screen readers. I can put the magic on the user's computer with JavaScript, or on the server using PHP.

Programming: As well as PHP- and JavaScript-based websites, I can write desktop apps, from small tools to fully-fledged application suites. I built an image capture/analysis package which has been used in numerous clinical trials, for instance. I prefer to work in C# since it speeds up development, but I'll happily and quickly learn any language that will do the job.

Writing: I like writing, and I think I can do it pretty well. Certainly I can do it without saying "could of" or spelling "lose" with two Os. But anything I write here is just going to have a typo in it so I'll shut up now.

Science Communication: I like explaining complicated things to interested laypeople. I like the challenge of putting them into simple terms without dumbing them down, and I like the particular smile people have when they understand something they didn't ten minutes ago.

Academic Publications

I'm currently a researcher with Manchester University. I design algorithms to analyse images of teeth, to measure stain, plaque, decay and so forth on them. I also build software to capture the images and to implement the algorithms, so that clinical trials can be run.