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Exploring the Impact of Medical Influencers on Health Discourse Through Socio-Semantic Network Analysis
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Roberta Bernardi Project Background Medical influencers on social media shape attitudes towards medical interventions but may also spread misinformation. Understanding their influence is crucial amidst growing mistrust in health authorities. We used a Twitter dataset of the top 100 medical influencers during Covid-19 to construct a socio-semantic network, mapping…
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Foodscapes: visualizing dietary practices on the Roman frontiers
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Lucy Cramp, Simon Hammann & Martin Pitts The extraction and molecular analysis of ancient food residues from pottery enable us to reconstruct the actual uses of vessels in the past. This means we can start to build up pictures of dietary patterns in the past, including foodways at culturally…
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A real-time map-based traffic and air-quality dashboard for Bristol
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: James Matthews A reduction in urban air quality is known to be a detrimental to health, affecting many conditions including cardiorespiratory health. Sources of poor air quality in urban areas include industry, traffic and domestic wood burning. Air quality can be tracked by many government, university and citizen…
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The Royal Statistical Society Annual Conference 2024
The Royal Statistical Society meets annually for their internationally attended conference. It serves as the UK’s annual showcase for statistics and data science. This year they met in Brighton for a conference attended by over 600 attendees from around the world, including JGI Data Scientist Dr Huw Day. The conference had over 250 presentations, including contributed talks,…
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Using Machine Learning to Correct Probe Skew in High-frequency Electrical Loss Measurements
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Jun Wang & Song Liu Introduction This project develops a machine learning approach to address the probe skew problem in high-frequency electrical loss measurements. What were the aims of the seed corn project? To tackle the net-zero challenge through electrification, power electronic converters play an important role in…
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Understanding the growth of human brains
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: James Armstrong The human brain is a highly complex structure and an inaccessible organ to study, which has hampered our understanding of how the brain grows, becomes diseased, and responds to drugs. In the last ten years, a new method has been developed that uses stem cells to…
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Chakaya Nyamvula’s JGI Placement
Hi, I’m Chakaya. I am currently pursuing my MSc in AI and Data Science at Keele University and working as a Business Intelligence Analyst at iLabAfrica at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. This summer, thanks to the partnership between iLabAfrica and JGI, I had an amazing opportunity to work with JGI for my Master’s placement.…
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Working towards more universal skin cancer identification with AI
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: James Pope Introduction Open-source skin cancer datasets contain predominantly lighter skin tones potentially leading to biased artificial intelligence (AI) models. This study aimed to analyse these datasets for skin tone bias. What were the aims of the seed corn project? The project’s aims were to perform an exploratory…
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First Steps Towards a Crowd-Sourced Ancient Greek Encyclopaedia
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Naomi Scott In the second century A.D., Julius Pollux, Professor of Rhetoric at the Academy in Athens, wrote the Onomasticon (‘Book of Words’), and dedicated it to the Emperor Commodus. The work sits somewhere between an encyclopaedia and a lexicon. Chapters are organised by topic, and Pollux lists…
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