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Imagining Secure Digital Futures – DiScriBe Hub+
Dr Genevieve Liveley and Professor Awais Rashid are part of the team of the newly launched ESRC Digital Security by Design Social Science Hub+, DiScriBe, a four year project to bring social science, humanities and computer science together to address the challenges of digital security. DiScriBe Hub+ is one of two programmes of research and development announced by UK Research and Innovation, as part of the Industrial…
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Brunel’s Network project – next stage
A blog written by James Boyd, Brunel Institute and Christopher Woods, University of Bristol. Following many months of lockdown-based work, the Brunel’s Network project, conducted by the SS Great Britain Trust and University of Bristol collaboration, The Brunel Institute, is now available online. The project aims to find, record, assess and weight the influence of…
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Dr Anya Skatova, Bristol Turing Fellow, received the prestigious UKRI Future Leader Fellowship
Dr Skatova’s programme will focus on developing methods to analyse shopping data to improve population health. Digital technology opens up a new era in the understanding of human behaviour and lifestyle choices, with people’s daily activities and habits leaving ‘footprints’ in their digital records. For example, when we buy goods in supermarkets and use loyalty…
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What is data? Exploring data from an anthropological perspective
Blog written by Josie Price, University of Bristol graduate Introduction Humans are repeatedly living through and creating data, yet the uses of data have also become a source of economic, political, psychological and social power. So, what really is data? My final year thesis for my Anthropology with Innovation degree aimed to investigate this question…
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Food hazards from around the world Data Competition
We are excited to announce the winner of the 2020 Food hazards from around the world data competition is Robert Eyre with his visualisation project ‘FSA related alert tracker’. The Jean Golding Institute recently teamed up with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for a data visualisation competition The competition Every day the Food Standards Agency…
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Storing your data in a spreadsheet
Blog written by Jonty Rougier, Lisa Müller, Soraya Safazadeh, Centre for Thriving Places (the new name for Happy City) What makes a good spreadsheet layout? We were recently trying to extract some data from the All tab of the ONS spreadsheet Work Geography Table 7.12 Gender pay gap 2018 This gave us the opportunity…
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Optimization of ultra-thin radiation resistant composites structures for space applications
Composites have been used for space applications due to their high performance properties. However, the environmental conditions experienced during space exposure lead to severe structural damage. Blog by Mayra Rivera Lopez, PhD Researcher, Bristol Composites Institute (ACCIS) Advanced Composites Collaboration for Innovation and Science, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol This project was awarded…
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Predicting cause of death and the presence of bad healthcare practice from free-text summaries
We used machine learning to predict cause of death from free text summaries of those diagnosed with prostate cancer; and the presence of bad practice in health and social care for those who have died with learning difficulties. Aims Knowledge of underlying cause of death (UCoD) is a key health outcome in research and service…
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Digital Humanities meets Medieval Financial Records
Blog by Mike Jones, Research Software Engineer in Research IT, University of Bristol The purpose of this project was to explore the use of ‘Digital Humanities methodologies’ in analysing an English-language translation of a medieval Latin document. We used data analysis tools and techniques to extract financial data and entities (e.g. people, places and communities)…
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