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It’s been more than a month since I left Leeds, but my mind often returns to the days spent in lovely West Yorkshire. I start by thanking everyone at LIDA and CDRC for making my stay so productive and enjoyable. The visit began at the ECTQG conference in York, which was a great opportunity to...
The Leeds Data Science Society is approaching its second birthday this month, and this year looks to be action packed with events just like the two before it. We are happy to have reached nearly 300 subscribed members, and to be sponsored by BlackRock, KPMG and Hiscox Insurance. The year kicked off with a highly...
A bit about us We would like to introduce ourselves; Vickie, Annabel, Jennie, Fran, Eugeni, Ryan and Keiran, as the first Leeds cohort of the Data Analytics and Society CDT. The CDT is funded by the ESRC and consists of students not only from the University of Leeds, but also the Universities of Sheffield, Manchester...
The ARC team provide and support a comprehensive Advanced Research Computing (ARC) support service for researchers in all faculties at the University of Leeds. The service consists of a large High Performance Computing (HPC or Supercomputing) resource consisting of several clusters which are used for all forms of predictive modelling, data analysis and simulation which...
Over the last decade there has been exponential growth in the use of large-scale technologies as a tool to understand a wide range of phenomena in the Biological and Medical Sciences. These technologies include (but are not limited to) genomics, transcriptomics, translatomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and epigenomics and they are used by scientists in very diverse...
wk1003mike/Shutterstock Sandy Tubeuf, University of Leeds We don’t choose our parents, their jobs or their health. And we don’t have a say in whether or not they smoke, nor in what they ate when we were children. However, our recent study found that these things strongly determine our own lifestyles and health, even into adulthood....
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...