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LIDA Seminar Series 27th April 2017

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, 3:15pm 6pm
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As part of the Leeds Digital Festival, LIDA is pleased to bring you another seminar in our series showcasing data analytics. Our first speaker is Dr Andrew P Smith, Researcher from the University of Leeds, with his talk titled "Software development for academic research: examples from the Catch project (The Catch! industrial research project brings...

Robust methods for causal inference with observational data

Date
, 3:30pm - 6pm
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The Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) is pleased to present this research symposium- Robust methods for causal inference with observational data- on the 16th March 2017 at 3.30pm in the Medical Lecture Theatre, Level 7 Airport Lounge Worsley Building. This session will be chaired by Peter Tennant, University Academic Fellow in Healthcare Research, from...

The role of mathematics and statistics in data analytics

Date
, 3:15pm - 6pm
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When individuals are learning how to behave in an unknown environment, a statistically sensible thing to do is form posterior distributions over unknown quantities of interest (such as features of the environment and individuals’ preferences) then select an action by integrating with respect to these posterior distributions. However reasoning with such distributions is very troublesome,...

LIDA Seminar Series 9th February 2017

Date
, 3:15pm - 6pm
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The Leeds Institute for Data Analytics is pleased to confirm the next installment of our seminar series showcasing data analytics titled: Acute and chronic childhood conditions; short-term and long-term outcomes. For this seminar we welcome keynote Dr Roger Parslow who is a senior lecturer in Epidemiology at the University of Leeds. His talk will focus on...

LIDA Seminar Series 26th January 2017

Date
, 3:30pm - 6pm
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We were pleased to welcome Baroness Onora O’Neill as our main speaker for this LIDA Seminar. Baroness O’Neill is a philosopher and crossbench member of the House of Lords, and president of the Society for Applied Philosophy and Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Baroness O’Neill’s talk titled “Data ethics and the ethics of...

Big data to improve cardiovascular health: Hype or reality?

Date
, 3:30pm - 6pm
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Chair: Dr Chris Gale, Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Health Sciences, Honorary Consultant Cardiologist 15:15: Registration at the Medical Lecture Theatre, Level 7 Airport Lounge, Worsley Building, University of Leeds 15:30: Dr Marlous Hall, Senior Cardiovascular Epidemiologist, Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine and Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics #datasaveslives: Examples...

LIDA Data Scientist Internship Programme project presentations 2

Date
, 3:15pm - 6pm
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LIDA launched the Data Scientist Internship Programme in September 2016, as part of our commitment to developing data science capability and driving multidisciplinary data analytics research. The nine appointed interns are currently working alongside researchers from across the University on a wide range of projects. During two linked sessions, the first being the 8th December...

LIDA Data Scientist Internship Programme project presentations

Date
, 3:15pm - 6pm
Category

The Leeds Institute for Data Analytics launched the Data Scientist Internship Programme in September 2016, as part of our commitment to developing data science capability and driving multidisciplinary data analytics research. The nine appointed interns are currently working alongside researchers from across the University on a wide range of projects. During two linked sessions, the...