Dr Rudy Arthur

Senior Lecturer in Data Science

ra414@exeter.ac.uk

Overview

Background

I am a researcher, teacher and data scientist who works in computational social science and environmental data science with a special interest in areas where the social and environmental overlap. My background is in Theoretical Physics, I completed a BA in Computational Physics in Trinity College Dublin (2008) and a PhD in Particle Physics at the University of Edinburgh (2012). Since then I've worked in academia and industry in areas as diverse as: speculative theories of fundamental physics; genetics; algorithm design; software engineering; social media analysis; applied and theoretical ecology. I started work at the University of Exeter in 2017 as a researcher and became a lecturer in 2019. My current research focuses mainly on environmental challenges - specifically on computational methods to understand and harness “big data” from social media, satellites and other sources to help with the ongoing climate emergency. Long term, my goal is to realise the promise of big data for addressing environmental issues while mitigating the problems of bias, privacy, access, rigour and effective research translation.

Teaching

I teach Introduction to Data Science and Data Analysis 1&2

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/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgpvzMJe9d6_JtpiHeYhjZg

Publications

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2024

Hickey J, Young J, Spruce M, Pandit R, Williams H, Arthur R, Stovall W, Head M. (2024) Social sensing a volcanic eruption: application to Kīlauea 2018, DOI:10.5194/nhess-2024-3. [PDF]
Joyce J, Arthur R, Fu G, Bialkowski A, Williams H. (2024) Using Social Sensing to Validate Flood Risk Modelling in England, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), volume 14472 LNAI, pages 95-106, DOI:10.1007/978-981-99-8391-9_8.

2023

Arthur R. (2023) Valeriepieris Circles for Spatial Data Analysis, Geographical Analysis, DOI:10.1111/gean.12383.
Arthur R, Nicholson A. (2023) Does Gaia Play Dice? Simple Models of Non-Darwinian Selection, Astrobiology, volume 23, no. 11, pages 1238-1244, DOI:10.1089/ast.2023.0036.
Arthur R. (2023) A critical analysis of the What3Words geocoding algorithm, PLoS One, volume 18, no. 10, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0292491. [PDF]
Arthur R, Nicholson A. (2023) A Gaian habitable zone, MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, volume 521, no. 1, pages 690-707, DOI:10.1093/mnras/stad547. [PDF]
Arthur R. (2023) Discovering block structure in networks, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, volume 613, DOI:10.1016/j.physa.2023.128527.

2022

Spruce M. (2022) Assessing the social impacts of extreme weather events using social media.
Young JC, Arthur R, Spruce M, Williams HTP. (2022) Social sensing of flood impacts in India: A case study of Kerala 2018, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, volume 74, pages 102908-102908, article no. 102908, DOI:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102908. [PDF]
Arthur R, Nicholson A. (2022) Selection principles for Gaia, J Theor Biol, volume 533, DOI:10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110940. [PDF]

2021

Buxton J, Powell T, Ambler J, Boulton C, Nicholson A, Arthur R, Lees K, Williams H, Lenton T. (2021) Community-driven tree planting greens the neighbouring landscape, DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-334324/v2.
Buxton J, Powell T, Ambler J, Boulton C, Nicholson A, Arthur R, Lees K, Williams H, Lenton TM. (2021) Community-driven tree planting greens the neighbouring landscape, Sci Rep, volume 11, no. 1, DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-96973-6. [PDF]
Spruce MD, Arthur R, Robbins J, Williams HTP. (2021) Social sensing of high-impact rainfall events worldwide: a benchmark comparison against manually curated impact observations, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, volume 21, no. 8, pages 2407-2425, DOI:10.5194/nhess-21-2407-2021. [PDF]
Arthur R. (2021) Studying the UK job market during the COVID-19 crisis with online job ads, PLoS ONE, volume 16, no. 5 May, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0251431.
Young JC, Arthur R, Spruce M, Williams HTP. (2021) Social sensing of heatwaves, Sensors, volume 21, no. 11, DOI:10.3390/s21113717.
Buxton J, Powell T, Ambler J, Boulton C, Nicholson A, Arthur R, Lees K, Williams H, Lenton T. (2021) Community-driven tree planting greens the neighbouring landscape, DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-334324/v1. [PDF]
Spruce MD, Arthur R, Robbins J, Williams HTP. (2021) Social sensing of high-impact rainfall events worldwide: A benchmark comparison against manually curated impact observations, DOI:10.5194/nhess-2020-413. [PDF]
Weaver IS, Williams HTP, Arthur R. (2021) A social Beaufort scale to detect high winds using language in social media posts, Sci Rep, volume 11, no. 1, DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-82808-x. [PDF]

2020

Morgan KM, Perry CT, Arthur R, Williams HTP, Smithers SG. (2020) Projections of coral cover and habitat change on turbid reefs under future sea-level rise, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, volume 287, no. 1929, pages 20200541-20200541, DOI:10.1098/rspb.2020.0541. [PDF]
Spruce M, Arthur R, Williams HTP. (2020) Using social media to measure impacts of named storm events in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Meteorological Applications, volume 27, no. 1, DOI:10.1002/met.1887.
Arthur R. (2020) Modularity and projection of bipartite networks, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, volume 549, DOI:10.1016/j.physa.2020.124341.

2019

Brelsford C, Thakur G, Arthur R, Williams H. (2019) Using digital trace data to identify regions and cities, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Advances in Resilient and Intelligent Cities, ARIC 2019, pages 5-8, DOI:10.1145/3356395.3365539.
Arthur R, Williams HTP. (2019) Scaling laws in geo-located Twitter data, PLoS One, volume 14, no. 7, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0218454. [PDF]
Arthur R, Williams HTP. (2019) The human geography of Twitter: Quantifying regional identity and inter-region communication in England and Wales, PLoS One, volume 14, no. 4, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0214466. [PDF]

2018

Cowie S, Arthur R, Williams HTP. (2018) @choo: Tracking pollen and hayfever in the UK using social media, Sensors (Switzerland), volume 18, no. 12, DOI:10.3390/s18124434.

2017

Arthur R, Boulton CA, Shotton H, Williams HTP. (2017) Social Sensing of Floods in the UK, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1711.04695.
Arthur R, Nicholson A. (2017) An entropic model of Gaia, J Theor Biol, volume 430, pages 177-184, DOI:10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.07.005. [PDF]
Arthur R, Sibani P. (2017) Decision making on fitness landscapes, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, volume 471, pages 696-704, DOI:10.1016/j.physa.2016.12.068.

2016

Arthur R, O’Connell J, Schulz-Trieglaff O, Cox AJ. (2016) Rapid genotype refinement for whole-genome sequencing data using multi-variate normal distributions, Bioinformatics, volume 32, no. 15, pages 2306-2312, DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw097. [PDF]
Arthur R, Schulz-Trieglaff O, Cox AJ, O’Connell J. (2016) AKT: ancestry and kinship toolkit, Bioinformatics, volume 33, no. 1, pages 142-144, DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw576. [PDF]
Arthur R, Drach V, Hansen M, Hietanen A, Pica C, Sannino F. (2016) SU(2) gauge theory with two fundamental flavors: A minimal template for model building, Physical Review D, volume 94, no. 9, article no. 094507, DOI:10.1103/physrevd.94.094507. [PDF]
Arthur R, Nicholson A, Sibani P, Christensen M. (2016) The Tangled Nature Model for organizational ecology, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, volume 23, no. 1, pages 1-31, DOI:10.1007/s10588-016-9214-4. [PDF]

2015

Hietanen A, Arthur R, Drach V, Hansen M, Lewis R, Pica C, Sannino F. (2015) Composite (Goldstone) Higgs Dynamics on the Lattice: Spectrum of SU(2) Gauge Theory with two Fundamental Fermions, Proceedings of The 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LATTICE2014), DOI:10.22323/1.214.0249.
Drach V, Arthur R, Hietanen A, Pica C, Sannino F, Hietanen A, Pica C, Hansen M. (2015) Scattering lengths in SU(2) Gauge Theory with two Fundamental Fermions, Proceedings of The 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LATTICE2014), DOI:10.22323/1.214.0271.
Arthur R, Nicholson A, Sibani P, Christensen M. (2015) The Tangled Nature Model for Organizational Ecology, DOI:10.2139/ssrn.2623536.
Shintani E, Arthur R, Blum T, Izubuchi T, Jung C, Lehner C. (2015) Covariant approximation averaging, Physical Review D, volume 91, no. 11, article no. 114511, DOI:10.1103/physrevd.91.114511. [PDF]

2013

Arthur R, Blum T, Boyle PA, Christ NH, Garron N, Hudspith RJ, Izubuchi T, Jung C, Kelly C, Lytle AT. (2013) Domain wall QCD with near-physical pions, Physical Review D, volume 87, no. 9, DOI:10.1103/physrevd.87.094514.
Arthur R, Kennedy AD. (2013) Monte Carlo integration with subtraction, Computer Physics Communications, volume 184, no. 12, pages 2794-2802, DOI:10.1016/j.cpc.2013.08.003.
Arthur R, Boyle PA, Hashimoto S, Hudspith R. (2013) Note on Rome-Southampton renormalization with smeared gauge fields, Physical Review D, volume 88, no. 11, DOI:10.1103/physrevd.88.114506.

2012

Arthur R, Kennedy AD. (2012) Monte Carlo Integration with Subtraction. [PDF]
Arthur R, Boyle PA, Garron N, Kelly C, Lytle AT. (2012) Opening the Rome-Southampton window for operator mixing matrices, Physical Review D, volume 85, no. 1, DOI:10.1103/physrevd.85.014501.

2011

Arthur R, Boyle PA. (2011) Step-scaling with off-shell renormalization, Physical Review D, volume 83, no. 11, DOI:10.1103/physrevd.83.114511.
Aoki Y, Arthur R, Blum T, Boyle PA, Brömmel D, Christ NH, Dawson C, Izubuchi T, Jung C, Kelly C. (2011) Continuum limit of BK from 2+1 flavor domain wall QCD, Physical Review D, volume 84, no. 1, DOI:10.1103/physrevd.84.014503.
Arthur R, Boyle PA, Brömmel D, Donnellan MA, Flynn JM, Jüttner A, Rae TD, Sachrajda CTC. (2011) Lattice results for low moments of light meson distribution amplitudes, Physical Review D, volume 83, no. 7, DOI:10.1103/physrevd.83.074505.
Rae T, Arthur R, Boyle PA, Broemmel D, Donnellan MA, Flynn JM, Juttner A, Pedroso de Lima H, Sachrajda C, Samways B. (2011) Parton Distribution Amplitudes, Proceedings of The XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(Lattice 2010), DOI:10.22323/1.105.0154.

2010

Aoki Y, Arthur R, Blum T, Boyle PA, Brommel D, Christ NH, Dawson C, Flynn JM, Izubuchi T, Jin X-Y. (2010) Continuum Limit Physics from 2+1 Flavor Domain Wall QCD, Phys.Rev.D, volume 83. [PDF]

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