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Are you a researcher looking for data scientist support?
Researchers across the University benefit from our JGI Seedcorn Funding. Funding is great when you have someone to do the work – but what if you don’t have the right data science expertise in house? For that, this summer we are trialling a new JGI Data Scientist Support service. This provides an alternative support mechanism…
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Turing Fellowships 2024 announcement
The Jean Golding Institute is pleased to announce the next University of Bristol-based researchers that have been awarded The Alan Turing Institute Fellowship. Starting on the 1st of March, two new Bristol-based researchers will be joining the Turing network and becoming Turing fellows alongside forty-nine other fellows being announced today. Turing fellows are researchers with…
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Dr Dan Lawson appointed as interim Director of the Jean Golding Institute
Dr Dan Lawson has been appointed as the interim Director of the Jean Golding Institute for an initial period of six months. As well as the interim Director role, he will assume the role of Academic Liaison for The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for Data Science and AI, on behalf of the…
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Hear the JGI’s first monthly podcast: Data Hazards and Digital Phenotyping
The JGI is delighted to launch the JGI Podcast, where the team at the Jean Golding Institute talk to different members of the University of Bristol’s data science research community. Each episode aims to highlight both the variety of backgrounds and paths that our guests come from as well as the diversity in methods, approaches…
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Assessing the pathogenic potential of novel bacterial lineages: Towards an early warning system for problem pathogens
The future of disease control relies heavily on understanding the evolution and emergence of bacterial strains in real time, a daunting yet crucial task. Read our latest JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog by Sion Bayliss and Daniel Lawson.
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Developing an Integrated and Intelligent Algo-trading System
Traditional algo-trading strategies have become central features of modern financial markets. However, these strategies often rely solely on the analysis of present and past quantitative data, neglecting the importance of incorporating qualitative data in the decision-making process. JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2022-2023: Jin Zheng
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Seeking ground truth in data: prevalence of pain and its impacts on well-being and workplace productivity
Chronic pain is a major health issue across the globe. Researchers estimated that at least 10% of the population in the United Kingdom are suffering from pain conditions. If we consider the entire world, some estimated that over 20% of the population have chronic pain and that results in more than 20 million ‘pain days’…
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Large-sample evaluation of deep learning and optical flow algorithms in nowcasting radar rainfall-flooding events
This seed corn project aimed to identify a large sample of rainfall events that result in flooding in Great Britain and to evaluate deep learning and optical flow algorithms for radar rainfall nowcasting at the event and catchment scales. JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2022-2023: Jiao Wang and Ahmed Mohamed
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Machine learning based online discourse analysis of mental health and medication use
Extracting information from free text sources is a complex and exciting data science challenge. Textual data generated by humans is rich, complex, with its meaning often contextual and packed with nuance. This project analysed data from Reddit, an online social news website and discussion forum community, using Natural Language Processing (NLP). JGI Seed Corn Funding…
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