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  • 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…