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The University of Leeds is now a partner of The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s prestigious national institute for data science. The work is led by the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) with contributions from researchers and data scientists across the University. The work in LIDA sheds new light on health and human behaviour...
Dr Chris Till, co-investigator on one of the projects funded by the CDRC Innovation Fund, provides his views on using big commercial datasets critically. This month I started working on a new project with colleagues from Leeds Beckett University and The University of Leeds which will use self-tracked data to assess demographic differences in activity...
The CDT in Data Analytics and Society recently announced the introduction of a Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) Scheme aimed at those in the immediate postdoctoral stage of their career, to provide the opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, their networks, and their research and professional skills. The CDAS will appoint three fellows to start...
Elevated obesity prevalence is concerning due to the associated individual and societal consequences. There have been mixed findings for public health interventions, with many only achieving short-term success in weight loss (Padwal, 2007). Policymakers are therefore engaging with the idea that the built environment may be a contributing factor to obesity. For instance, within the...
In spring 2016 I was invited to present my work on ‘environmental footprints: consumption-based approaches to measuring environmental impacts’ as part of the LIDA seminar series. As a direct result of this opportunity I got to know several LIDA staff members and staff from LIDA partner organisations including CallCredit. I was inspired by the type...
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the awarding of its Starting Grants to 406 top researchers throughout Europe. LIDA’s Dr Nick Malleson was awarded €1.4 million for five years, to further his work on using big data to react to civil emergencies. Using big data to react to civil emergencies One of the means of...
Rachel Oldroyd, @r_oldroyd, UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow and Quantitative Human Geographer at the University of Leeds, shares her journey into the world of geographical data and developing a career in understanding foodborne illness with spatial data. “So, what do you do?” Albert Einstein once said “If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well...
In a representative democracy it is important that politicians have knowledge of the desires, aspirations and concerns of their constituents. Opportunities to gauge these opinions are however limited and, in the era of novel data, thoughts turn to what alternative, secondary, data sources may be available to keep politicians informed about local concerns. One such source of data are signatories...
I’m Kelvin Tsoi, a digital epidemiologist from the Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I am leading an interdisciplinary research team to apply Big Data techniques for healthcare research. I visited Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) and shared my recent research work on Artificial Intelligent Application...
I felt inspired to come to LIDA for my lower-sixth work experience placement, since I am intrigued by the use of data and to what extent it influences research and wider society. During the week, I have developed an understanding for how the data is analysed and, more practically, how it is put to use...