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Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Emilio Romero
Emilio Romero (Ask-JGI Data Science Support 2023-24) Over the past year, my experience helping with the Ask-JGI service has been really rewarding. I was keen to apply as I wanted to get more exposure to the research world in Bristol, meet different researchers and explore with them different ways of working and approaching data. From…
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Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Daniel Collins
Daniel Collins (Ask-JGI Data Science Support 2023-24) I applied to Ask-JGI as a 2nd year PhD student on the Interactive AI CDT. Before starting my PhD, I spent several years working in Medical Physics for the NHS. Without a formal background in data science, transitioning to an AI-focused PhD felt like a significant shift. I was…
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From Data to Discovery in Biology and Health
ELLIS Summer School on Machine Learning in Healthcare and Biology – 11 to 13 June 2024 Huw Day, Richard Lane, Christianne Fernée and Will Chapman, data scientists from the Jean Golding Institute, attended the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology at The University…
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Empowering schools to improve the data literacy of young people
What is DataFace? Data science is everywhere in the modern world and is increasingly relevant to many careers. Part of Cheltenham Science Festival, and supported by the Jean Golding Institute and CyberFirst, the DataFace project gives secondary school students and their teachers the skills and confidence to dive into an open dataset, find an issue…
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Rigour, imagination and production in data-driven science
A public event organised by The Alan Turing Institute – 20 June 2024 Blog post by Léo Gorman, Data Scientist, Jean Golding Institute Let’s say you are a researcher approaching a new dataset. Often it seems that there is a virtually infinite number of legitimate paths you could take between loading your data for the first…
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Updates from a previous JGI Seed Corn funded project: Addressing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) ‘data gap’
We are delighted to announce a few updates regarding one of our previous seed corn funded projects. In 2022-2023, the JGI funded Cheryl McQuire’s (Bristol Medical School) project on “Addressing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) ‘data gap’: ascertaining the feasibility of establishing the first UK National linked database for FASD”. This project allowed Cheryl’s…
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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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