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WICI Specialist Conference: Call for Abstracts Currently Open

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WICI Specialist Conference: Call for Abstracts Currently Open The Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation (WICI) has announced the theme of this year’s Specialist Conference: “Modelling complex urban environments”. The conference takes place on the 21st-22nd July 2018 at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) with the intention of bringing together researchers from multiple disciplines...

Data Analytics and Society – PhD projects now available

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The Centre for Data Analytics and Society is now recruiting its second cohort of students and currently has four projects, based at the University of Sheffield, available. 1.  Applying Data Analytics to Comprehensive Linked Police Records 2. Visualizing, Exploiting and Experiencing Global Data on Children’s Media Use 3. Assessing the Cost of Road Traffic Casualties 4. The Effect of Traffic...

Corporate Responsibility Research Conference: Call for Abstracts Currently Open

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The 13th annual Corporate Responsibility & Research Conference takes place on the 11th-12th September 2018 with the theme “Engaging Business and Consumers for Sustainable Change”. The conference is being hosted by the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) and Business and Organisations for Sustainable Societies research group (BOSS) at the University of Leeds and promises a rigorously dynamic environment in which to experiment with...

Smart cities need to be more human, so we’re creating Sims-style virtual worlds

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Image from www.shutterstock.com   Huge quantities of networked sensors have appeared in cities across the world in recent years. These include cameras and sensors that count the number of passers by, devices to sense air quality, traffic flow detectors, and even bee hive monitors. There are also large amounts of information about how people use...

CDT Blog- Keiran Suchak

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The first semester of the Doctoral program has been busier than I think most of the Leeds cohort of the CDT were expecting. With commitments to a module on Research Methods, demonstrating courses for undergraduates and working on the assignments for Andy Evans’ programming module, each of us looked forward to the end of semester....

Town Hall – Introducing The Alan Turing Institute

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Leeds staff are invited to a town hall discussion with Sir Alan Wilson, CEO at The Alan Turing Institute, the national institute for data science and AI. The University of Leeds is set to join the Turing as a university partner this year. In this talk, Alan will present examples of the exciting research already...

Call for ESRC/Turing Doctoral Studentship applications

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The Alan Turing Institute and The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) are seeking to recruit four doctoral students to work on PhD projects in the priority areas of smart cities and health and well-being. Studying at the Turing offers a unique opportunity to undertake a data science-focused PhD in a multidisciplinary environment, where over...

Building your skills set; building your future

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The Consumer Data Research Centre offers a range of training courses aimed at enhancing capacity in data analytics and data visualisation methods.  We have a number of courses coming up over the next few months in Leeds and London. If you’re looking to grow your skills set in these areas, consider booking now as places...

Waste Not Want Not: Food Waste Papers Make Popular Reading

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Two papers on food waste by Professor William Young, Co-Investigator of the Consumer Data Research Centre, were among the most downloaded from Resources, Conservation and Recycling Journal at the end of 2017, suggesting a renewed interest in issues surrounding sustainability and responsible consumption among food industry customers. The result of a collaboration with supermarket giant...

2017 Seminar Series Recap

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In 2017, LIDA hosted 14 seminars on topics such as crime analytics, Big Data and ethics, the role of mathematics and statistics in data analytics, and global transport datasets. Each seminar was a similar format, starting with two short presentations showcasing LIDA projects, followed by a main speaker.  We were pleased to welcome a number...