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  • Understanding the growth of human brains 

    Understanding the growth of human brains 

    JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: James Armstrong The human brain is a highly complex structure and an inaccessible organ to study, which has hampered our understanding of how the brain grows, becomes diseased, and responds to drugs. In the last ten years, a new method has been developed that uses stem cells to…

  • Chakaya Nyamvula’s JGI Placement 

    Chakaya Nyamvula’s JGI Placement 

    Hi, I’m Chakaya. I am currently pursuing my MSc in AI and Data Science at Keele University and working as a Business Intelligence Analyst at iLabAfrica at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. This summer, thanks to the partnership between iLabAfrica and JGI, I had an amazing opportunity to work with JGI for my Master’s placement.…

  • Working towards more universal skin cancer identification with AI 

    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…

  • First Steps Towards a Crowd-Sourced Ancient Greek Encyclopaedia

    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…

  • 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…