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  • 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…

  • Whose culture is it anyway? A data project aiming to measure the cultural engagement of BAME young people aged 16-25

    Piece written by Euella Jackson and Kamina Walton, October 2017. As Zora Neale Hurston once wrote: ‘I feel most coloured when thrown against a sharp white background’. For young people of colour living in Bristol, and entering spaces that are overwhelmingly white or middle class, they often feel defined in terms of their ‘otherness’. Sometimes…

  • The Growing Ubiquity of Algorithms in Society

    Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), powered by algorithms, play an ever-increasing part in decision-making within our society. This was the context for “The growing ubiquity of algorithms in society: implications, impacts, and innovations” – a discussion meeting held by the Royal Society on 30-31 October 2017. Speakers from various backgrounds, ranging from law to…

  • JGI Community News – October 2017

    News Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp The Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp event a great success on Friday at the Waterfront – lots of coverage via Points West, BBC Radio 4 Today programme and the Evening Post. Read more about the event and the project behind it here: Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp Data visualisation challenge now open! Exploring…

  • 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…