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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…

Across a five day workshop in July 2018, the 138th European Study Group with Industry brought together mathematicians and industrialists to work side by side to solve the real and important issues that companies are facing today. GW4 Seed Corn Funding enabled the free attendance of a non-profit organisation: NHS Digital. This problem was focused…

The data visualisation working group is an informal gathering hosted at the University of Bristol to discuss new ideas and data vis methodologies, the group meets monthly. If you are interested in participate, sign up to the mailing list by sending a blank email to sympa@sympa.bristol.ac.uk with the title “subscribe data-visualisation-group” (remember to remove any email signature from…

Context Bristol boasts a strong creative and cultural hub. For young people of colour, however, it can be difficult to be in and enjoy cultural spaces where you don’t see yourself represented. For local arts organisations, next-to-no data exists on people of colour’s cultural engagement, meaning there’s a lack of evidence to guide them in…

 Discovery proteomics  Research in the life sciences and translational medicine is being driven forward by cutting-edge techniques for studying the molecules acting in cells. We are interested in studying what proteins are present in diseased cells and in what quantities, compared with normal cells, since the identity of the proteins may help us understand the…

EPIC-KITCHENS is a collaboration with the University of Toronto (Canada) and the University of Catania (Italy), led by the University of Bristol to collect and annotate the largest (over 10 million frames) dataset, capturing 32 individuals in their own homes, over several consecutive days.   The dataset was collected in 4 different countries and was narrated in 6 languages…

Building a bridge between bench and computer science This project begins a new interdisciplinary collaboration between renal biology and engineering mathematics to apply novel machine learning methods to investigate genetic signatures in a highly phenotyped rare kidney disease cohort. Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome (INS) is a rare and one of the most difficult renal diseases in…

Greenhouse gases – a major international research priority  Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the atmosphere but our current understanding of their sources and sinks is poor. Robust, transparent evaluation of global greenhouse gas emissions is now recognised as a major international research priority.  Unprecedented data volumes require new statistical techniques  The Earth’s surface is far too large to…

Psychosis  Psychosis defines a category of serious and long-term mental disorders, like schizophrenia, characterised by loss of contact with reality and symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions and thought disorder. Psychosis is extremely expensive to treat and one of the leading causes of disability worldwide.  A data-driven method  We are working on a data-driven method to assess non-verbal synchrony, which is a core component of social functioning…