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  • Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp

    Digital Bristol Week A harp has been created inspired by the Clifton Suspension Bridge and transforms data from the bridge into sound. The harp was displayed as part of Digital Bristol Week on 20 October 2017 at a public event in the Hub on Bristol’s Waterfront. The event was popular, drawing in people who were…

  • JGI Seed Corn funding call now open – Deadline 17 November 2017

    Dear JGI community We are pleased to announce the JGI’s second round of research funding is now open to applicants. We were overwhelmed by the positive response that we received when we launched the first round of funding earlier in the year and the outputs of the JGI funded projects have been excellent. The primary…

  • JGI Community Update – September

    Welcome to September’s JGI Community Update Please share with your networks and invite people to Join the JGI Community through completing our quick online form – Join the JGI Community News An explosion of data – applications and implications of a data driven society At the end of the summer, JGI’s resident Data Scientist, Bobby Stuijfzand joined the Bristol…

  • JGI Community Update – August

    Hello JGI community, A few updates EVENTS  Data visualisation using Tableau workshop  13 September 9:30 am -5 pm The Jean Golding Institute and the Digital Cultures and Methods Cluster at the University of Bristol are hosting a full-day workshop in partnership with Tableau. The workshop is free of charge, but you must sign up as spaces are…

  • A night at the data science café

    It’s a Thursday in the Greenbank, a bohemian pub in Easton, Bristol. Upstairs, people have gathered to discuss ‘the rise of data science’ at one of the monthly Science Cafés run by the local branch of the British Science Association – places where, after a short talk from a scientific expert, the floor is given…

  • Jean Golding and the experience of setting up the ‘Children of the 90s’ study

    In the early nineties, more than 14,000 pregnant women enrolled into ALSPAC, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children – known to its friends as ‘Children of the 90s’. Every year for over two decades, these parents and children have provided all kinds of information to researchers to create a dataset unique in the…

  • A life in data: Professor Jean Golding OBE

    Get to know your data Now past the age when many retire, Professor Jean Golding OBE still works full-time to draw conclusions from the massive data sets she has shepherded into being. The epidemiologist, for whom the new University of Bristol data science institute is named, is best known for founding the uniquely rich study…