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  • Announcing the winner of our Global Farming Data Competition

    We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who participated in our Global Farming Data Competition and helped make it a success. A special congratulations goes to Leo Gorman who is our overall winner and will receive £1,000 in prize money. Leo’s wining entry was ‘Designing an interactive app for preliminary data exploration’. Our…

  • The University of Bristol to join the Alan Turing Institute

    We are delighted to announce that the University of Bristol will be joining The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science. The University will be joining a network of ATI university partners collaborating across disciplines through both theoretical development and innovative applications to place the UK at the forefront of the industries of the future, including AI and the data economy. Working…

  • IsoGlace workshop on novel isotope systems in glaciated environments

    On March 23rd 2018, the University of Bristol hosted the IsoGlace workshop about novel isotope systems in glaciated environments. The workshop was organised to coincide with a visit from University of Bristol Benjamin-Meaker fellows Ellen and Jon Martin, from the University of Florida Gainesville, and featured talks from glaciologists and geochemists about how we can…

  • GW4 funds data science projects to capitalise on regional strength

    The original version of this article can be found at GW4 Seed corn awards will catalyse new collaborations in data-intensive research. Five research projects have received seed-corn funding from the GW4 Alliance to broker new partnerships and develop fresh solutions which apply data science. Data science is widely acknowledged to be one of the premier strengths…

  • Escaping rural hunger and poverty in the developing world: A Global Farming Data Competition

    This post is written by ILRI post-doctoral scientist James Hammond with contributions from ILRI communications officer Paul Karaimu. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Jean Golding Institute have launched the Global Farming Data Competition 2018. The two organisations are challenging any data lovers to come up with novel, useful or exciting ways to…

  • Jean Golding Institute Showcase 2018 Keynote speakers announced

    We are very pleased to announce our keynote speakers for our upcoming Jean Golding Institute Showcase 2018: Trevor Hastie, Professor of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University who will present ‘Statistical learning with big data’ As our ability to gather and store data improves, we are faced with the task of analysing these…

  • Where the animals go: Big data and design. A talk by James Cheshire

    Rudolph the seal, Manu the jaguar and a wolf named Slavc are just a few of the characters featured in the stories of the journeys animals take when they travel across the world. These animal stories are demonstrated through graphics produced from enormous amounts of data and displayed in the book ‘Where the animals go’.…

  • Virtual Reality / 360 Visualisation of Datasets Workshop

    On a cold January morning we made our way through Millennium Square’s Winter Fair and up the industrial metal spiral staircase to the welcoming space of the Bristol VR Lab. Bristol VR lab is a workspace shared by residents who develop and research virtual, augmented and mixed reality technology, applications and projects made up of…

  • JGI Seed corn winners 2018

    We were impressed with the amount of strong applications to our latest round of seed corn funding and are very pleased to announce this year’s JGI Seed corn fund winners: Sarah Sullivan and Piotr Slowinski for their project ‘Social movement differences and risk of psychosis: Data-driven approaches for mental health diagnostics’ Agnieszka Bierzynska & Mark…