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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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Decoding pain: real-time data visualisation of human pain nerve activity
Blog post by Manuel Martinez, Research Software Engineer and Dr Jim Dunham, Clinical Lecturer, from the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience at the University of Bristol We are developing new tools to analyse human pain nerve activity in real time. This will aid diagnosis in chronic pain and enable individualised, targeted treatments. Some patients…
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Mood music – Inferring wellbeing from Spotify
Does what you listen to reflect how you feel? And if it did, what would you think about using your music history to track your mood? Blog post by Nina Di Cara, PhD researcher, Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol Our research group, the Dynamic Genetics Lab, previously looked at whether what we do and…
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Building capacity for big data management for Ghana’s developing economy
A Science and Technology Facilities Impact Award (STFC IAA) won by a team from the Physics department in collaboration with the start-up iDAM and facilitated by the JGI will provide hardware and software facilities for high volume data storage and archiving, processing, visualisation, algorithm development and testing for research in academia and industry in Ghana,…
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