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  • IsoGlace workshop on novel isotope systems in glaciated environments

    On March 23rd 2018, the University of Bristol hosted the IsoGlace workshop about novel isotope systems in glaciated environments. The workshop was organised to coincide with a visit from University of Bristol Benjamin-Meaker fellows Ellen and Jon Martin, from the University of Florida Gainesville, and featured talks from glaciologists and geochemists about how we can…

  • GW4 funds data science projects to capitalise on regional strength

    The original version of this article can be found at GW4 Seed corn awards will catalyse new collaborations in data-intensive research. Five research projects have received seed-corn funding from the GW4 Alliance to broker new partnerships and develop fresh solutions which apply data science. Data science is widely acknowledged to be one of the premier strengths…

  • Escaping rural hunger and poverty in the developing world: A Global Farming Data Competition

    This post is written by ILRI post-doctoral scientist James Hammond with contributions from ILRI communications officer Paul Karaimu. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Jean Golding Institute have launched the Global Farming Data Competition 2018. The two organisations are challenging any data lovers to come up with novel, useful or exciting ways to…

  • Jean Golding Institute Showcase 2018 Keynote speakers announced

    We are very pleased to announce our keynote speakers for our upcoming Jean Golding Institute Showcase 2018: Trevor Hastie, Professor of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University who will present ‘Statistical learning with big data’ As our ability to gather and store data improves, we are faced with the task of analysing these…

  • Where the animals go: Big data and design. A talk by James Cheshire

    Rudolph the seal, Manu the jaguar and a wolf named Slavc are just a few of the characters featured in the stories of the journeys animals take when they travel across the world. These animal stories are demonstrated through graphics produced from enormous amounts of data and displayed in the book ‘Where the animals go’.…

  • Virtual Reality / 360 Visualisation of Datasets Workshop

    On a cold January morning we made our way through Millennium Square’s Winter Fair and up the industrial metal spiral staircase to the welcoming space of the Bristol VR Lab. Bristol VR lab is a workspace shared by residents who develop and research virtual, augmented and mixed reality technology, applications and projects made up of…

  • JGI Seed corn winners 2018

    We were impressed with the amount of strong applications to our latest round of seed corn funding and are very pleased to announce this year’s JGI Seed corn fund winners: Sarah Sullivan and Piotr Slowinski for their project ‘Social movement differences and risk of psychosis: Data-driven approaches for mental health diagnostics’ Agnieszka Bierzynska & Mark…

  • Whose culture is it anyway? A data project aiming to measure the cultural engagement of BAME young people aged 16-25

    Piece written by Euella Jackson and Kamina Walton, October 2017. As Zora Neale Hurston once wrote: ‘I feel most coloured when thrown against a sharp white background’. For young people of colour living in Bristol, and entering spaces that are overwhelmingly white or middle class, they often feel defined in terms of their ‘otherness’. Sometimes…

  • The Growing Ubiquity of Algorithms in Society

    Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), powered by algorithms, play an ever-increasing part in decision-making within our society. This was the context for “The growing ubiquity of algorithms in society: implications, impacts, and innovations” – a discussion meeting held by the Royal Society on 30-31 October 2017. Speakers from various backgrounds, ranging from law to…