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  • Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Mike Nsubuga

    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…

  • Unlocking big web archives: a tool to learn about new economic activities over space and time

    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…

  • Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Emma Hazelwood

    Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Emma Hazelwood

    Emma Hazelwood (Ask-JGI Data Science Support 2023-24)  I am a final year PhD student in Population Health Sciences. I found out about the opportunity to support the JGI’s data science helpdesk through a friend who had done this job previously. I thought it sounded like a great way to do something a bit different, especially…

  • Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Emilio Romero

    Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Emilio Romero

    Emilio Romero (Ask-JGI Data Science Support 2023-24) Over the past year, my experience helping with the Ask-JGI service has been really rewarding. I was keen to apply as I wanted to get more exposure to the research world in Bristol, meet different researchers and explore with them different ways of working and approaching data.   From…

  • Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Daniel Collins

    Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Daniel Collins

    Daniel Collins (Ask-JGI Data Science Support 2023-24) I applied to Ask-JGI as a 2nd year PhD student on the Interactive AI CDT. Before starting my PhD, I spent several years working in Medical Physics for the NHS. Without a formal background in data science, transitioning to an AI-focused PhD felt like a significant shift. I was…

  • From Data to Discovery in Biology and Health

    From Data to Discovery in Biology and Health

    ELLIS Summer School on Machine Learning in Healthcare and Biology – 11 to 13 June 2024   Huw Day, Richard Lane, Christianne Fernée and Will Chapman, data scientists from the Jean Golding Institute, attended the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology at The University…

  • Empowering schools to improve the data literacy of young people

    Empowering schools to improve the data literacy of young people

    What is DataFace? Data science is everywhere in the modern world and is increasingly relevant to many careers. Part of Cheltenham Science Festival, and supported by the Jean Golding Institute and CyberFirst, the DataFace project gives secondary school students and their teachers the skills and confidence to dive into an open dataset, find an issue…

  • Rigour, imagination and production in data-driven science 

    Rigour, imagination and production in data-driven science 

    A public event organised by The Alan Turing Institute – 20 June 2024 Blog post by Léo Gorman, Data Scientist, Jean Golding Institute  Let’s say you are a researcher approaching a new dataset. Often it seems that there is a virtually infinite number of legitimate paths you could take between loading your data for the first…

  • Updates from a previous JGI Seed Corn funded project:  Addressing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) ‘data gap’

    Updates from a previous JGI Seed Corn funded project:  Addressing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) ‘data gap’

    We are delighted to announce a few updates regarding one of our previous seed corn funded projects. In 2022-2023, the JGI funded Cheryl McQuire’s (Bristol Medical School) project on “Addressing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) ‘data gap’: ascertaining the feasibility of establishing the first UK National linked database for FASD”. This project allowed Cheryl’s…