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Widening Participation (WP) Research Summer Internships
The Widening Participation (WP) Research Summer Internships provide undergraduates with hands-on experience of research during the summer holidays, with the aim of encouraging a career in research. Interns gain professional experience and knowledge through a funded placement in their chosen subject. This also supports application for postgraduate study and other research jobs. This year, the…
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How to make data science skills stick? Learnings from the OCSEAN project
Written Catherine Upex and Rachel Wood Introducton Earlier this summer, the University of Bristol and the JGI welcomed a group of visiting researchers from the “Oceanic and Southeast Asian Navigators” (OCSEAN) project. OCSEAN is a worldwide interdisciplinary consortium researching the demographic history of ancient seafarers across Oceania and Southeast Asia. The visiting humanities researchers from…
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MagMap – Accurate Magnetic Characteristic Mapping Using Machine Learning
PGR JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Binyu Cui Introduction: Magnetic components, such as inductors, play a crucial role in nearly all power electronics applications and are typically known to be the least efficient components, significantly affecting overall system performance and efficiency. Despite extensive research and analysis on the characteristics of magnetic components, a…
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Unveiling Hidden Musical Semantics: Compositionality in Music Ngram Embeddings
PGR JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Zhijin Guo Introduction The overall aim of this project is to analyse music scores by machine learning. These of course are different from sound recordings of music, since they are symbolic representations of what musicians play. But with encoded versions of these scores (in which the graphical…
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From aerosol particles to network visualisation: Data science support enhancing research at the University of Bristol
AskJGI Example Queries from Faculty of Science and Engineering All University of Bristol researchers (from PhD student and up) are entitled to a day of free data science support from the Ask-JGI helpdesk. Just email ask-jgi@bristol.ac.uk with your query and one of our team will get back to you to see how we can support you. You…
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Ask-JGI is recruiting PhD students!
We are recruiting a new team of PhD students for the Ask-JGI helpdesk to work from October 2025 until September 2026! The Jean Golding Institute (JGI) for data science and AI offers a consultancy service to researchers via its Ask-JGI helpdesk. We offer one day of free support to all staff and doctoral students at…
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Tracing Voices: A Visual Journey through Latin American Debates about Race
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Jo Crow I’m a historian who is keen to learn how digital tools can strengthen our analysis of the material we find in the archives. I research histories of race, racism and anti-racism in Latin America. I’m particularly interested in how ideas about race travelled across borders in the…
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Using ‘The Cloud’ to enhance UoB laboratory data security, storage, sharing, and management
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Peter Martin, Chris Jones & Duncan Baldwin Introduction As a world-leading research-intensive institution, the University of Bristol houses a multi-million-pound array of cutting-edge analytical equipment of all types, ages, function, and sensitivity – distributed across its Schools, Faculties, Research Centres and Groups, as well as in dozens of…
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Ask-JGI Example Queries from Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
All University of Bristol researchers (from PhD student and up) are entitled to a day of free data science support from the Ask-JGI helpdesk. Just email ask-jgi@bristol.ac.uk with your query and one of our team will get back to you to see how we can support you. You can see more about how the JGI can support…
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