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  • International Women’s Day: the Changemakers Initiative

    As part of the celebration of International Women’s Day on Friday 8 March 2019, the Jean Golding Institute will be launching a new blog series interviewing the people behind the Changemakers initiative – bringing hands-on STEM activities to young women. In the first of this series, Data Scientist Elena Hensinger has given us an insight…

  • University of Bristol New Centres for Doctoral Training: Guy Nason, Director of COMPASS CDT

    On 4 February 2019, the University of Bristol announced that it had been awarded funding for nine Centres for Doctoral Training from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a record boost of over £50 million to train the next generation of highly-skilled researchers across the University. For more information about the announcement and…

  • Introducing the University of Bristol’s Turing Fellows: Iván Palomares Carrascosa

    In our latest blog series, the JGI will be interviewing some of the academics at the University of Bristol who have recently become The Alan Turing Institute Fellows. In the first of this series, Turing Fellow Iván Palomares Carrascosa has given us an overview of his exciting work with the Decision Support and Recommender Systems…

  • Introducing: The Turing Way

    The Turing Way is a handbook to support students, their supervisors, funders and journal editors in ensuring that reproducible data science is “too easy not to do”. It will include training material on version control, analysis testing, and open and transparent communication with future users, and build on Turing Institute case studies and workshops. It…

  • Spotlight on Data: ‘One in a Million: A study of primary care consultations’

    In the Spotlight on Data blog posts, the JGI interviews the owners of datasets available on the University of Bristol’s data.bris platform. We want to showcase the great research that goes on at the University and help bring people’s attention to datasets which could be reused in new and exciting ways. If you missed it,…

  • Spotlight on Data: Effect of glass markings on drinking rate in social alcohol drinkers

    In our new blog feature, Spotlight on data, the JGI interviews the owners of datasets available on the University of Bristol’s data.bris platform. We want to showcase the great research that goes on at the University and help bring people’s attention to datasets which could be reused in new and exciting ways. In our first…

  • Introducing “Spotlight on Data”

    Unsurprisingly, at the Jean Golding Institute, we love data. Datasets are not only an intrinsic part of research, they are also an important (and REF-able!) output. By publishing research data, we invite people to build on our research and we also make our own results easier to reproduce. At the University of Bristol, this is…

  • Announcing the Jean Golding Institute Seed corn winners 2019

    We were really impressed with the quality of applications for this year’s round of funding and are very pleased to announce the JGI Seed corn fund winners for 2019: Peter Bennett, Robert Arbon & Alex Jones for their project ‘Audio-visual display of protein dynamics using deep learning and classical composition’ Catherine Dodds & Peter Keogh…

  • Using NHST in your hypothesis testing

    Hypothesis testing using statistics usually proceeds via something along these lines: Collect some data, say on the response of some variable in two different groups to a treatment and a control. State a null and alternate hypothesis. The null hypothesis is something you want to falsify and typically is a nill hypothesis i.e. one that…