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  • New Turing Liaison Officers join the JGI team

    New Turing Liaison Officers join the JGI team

    As an active member of the Turing University Network, we have appointed a Turing Liaison Manager and two Turing Liaison Academics to support and enhance the partnership between Alan Turing Institute and the University of Bristol. These roles will be focusing on increasing engagement from Turing, developing external and internal networks around data science and…

  • How Smartwatches Could Help People with Type 1 Diabetes 

    How Smartwatches Could Help People with Type 1 Diabetes 

    JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Miranda Armstrong Introduction Type 1 diabetes (T1D) requires consistent self-management, which places a large burden on those who live with it. We explored the role smartwatches could play in reducing that burden.  Aims The project aimed to collect and build a dataset that would allow for exploration into the…

  • Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Rachael Laidlaw

    Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Rachael Laidlaw

    Rachael Laidlaw (Ask-JGI Data Science Support 2023-24)  I first came into contact with the Jean Golding Institute last year at The Alan Turing Institute’s annual AI UK conference in London, and then again in the early stages of the DataFace project in collaboration with Cheltenham Science Festival. This meant that before I officially joined the…

  • Mapping Historic Hong Kong 

    Mapping Historic Hong Kong 

    JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Thomas Larkin Introduction Mapping Historic Hong Kong (MHHK) is a pilot project designed to spatially organise visual and written archival documents into an interactive platform that maps Hong Kong’s colonial development.  Project aims This first stage of the MHHK project aimed to showcase the applications GIS mapping had for…

  • Children of the 90s and Synthetic Health Data 

    Children of the 90s and Synthetic Health Data 

    JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Mark Mumme, Eleanor Walsh, Dan Smith, Huw Day and Debbie Johnson What is Children of the 90s?  Children of the 90s (Co90s) is a multi-generational population-based study following the health and development of nearly 15,000 families living around Bristol, whose children were born in 1991 and 1992.  Co90s initially…

  • Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Mike Nsubuga

    Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Mike Nsubuga

    Mike Nsubuga (Ask-JGI Data Science Support 2023-24)  Embarking on a New Path  In the early days at Bristol, even before I began my PhD, I stumbled upon something extraordinary. AskJGI, a university initiative that provides data science support to researchers from all disciplines, caught my attention through a recruitment advert circulated by my PhD supervisor…

  • Unlocking big web archives: a tool to learn about new economic activities over space and time

    Unlocking big web archives: a tool to learn about new economic activities over space and time

    JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2022/23: Emmanouil Tranos  Where do websites go to die? Well, fortunately they don’t always die even if their owners stop caring about them. Their ‘immortality’ can be attributed to organisations known as web archives, whose mission is to preserve online content. There are quite a few web archives today…

  • Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Emma Hazelwood

    Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Emma Hazelwood

    Emma Hazelwood (Ask-JGI Data Science Support 2023-24)  I am a final year PhD student in Population Health Sciences. I found out about the opportunity to support the JGI’s data science helpdesk through a friend who had done this job previously. I thought it sounded like a great way to do something a bit different, especially…

  • Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Emilio Romero

    Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Emilio Romero

    Emilio Romero (Ask-JGI Data Science Support 2023-24) Over the past year, my experience helping with the Ask-JGI service has been really rewarding. I was keen to apply as I wanted to get more exposure to the research world in Bristol, meet different researchers and explore with them different ways of working and approaching data.   From…