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Working towards more universal skin cancer identification with AI
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: James Pope Introduction Open-source skin cancer datasets contain predominantly lighter skin tones potentially leading to biased artificial intelligence (AI) models. This study aimed to analyse these datasets for skin tone bias. What were the aims of the seed corn project? The project’s aims were to perform an exploratory…
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First Steps Towards a Crowd-Sourced Ancient Greek Encyclopaedia
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Naomi Scott In the second century A.D., Julius Pollux, Professor of Rhetoric at the Academy in Athens, wrote the Onomasticon (‘Book of Words’), and dedicated it to the Emperor Commodus. The work sits somewhere between an encyclopaedia and a lexicon. Chapters are organised by topic, and Pollux lists…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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