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Uncategorised / Thursday, 12 May, 2016

Do only affluent consumers buy green-labelled products?

Do only affluent consumers buy green-labelled products? By Professor William Young, Chris Brown (Asda) & Andy Peloe (Callcredit) Combining sales and demographic data can provide better insight into consumer behaviour. The current evidence on consumer...

Uncategorised / Thursday, 12 May, 2016

Charge of the lycra brigade: will the Tour de Yorkshire attract more people to cycling?

Matthew Whittle, University of Leeds; Alison Heppenstall, University...

Uncategorised / Thursday, 12 May, 2016

The City Talking: Tech in Leeds

LIDA Director Professor Mark Birkin appears in this documentary which celebrates the vibrant tech scene in the city of Leeds.  The documentary premiered at the recent Leeds Digital Festival and features contributions Sky, Plusnet, Sky Bet, HSCIC, LEP, Leeds Dock and Leeds City Council. ...

City / Thursday, 12 May, 2016

Leeds City Council

  Working with external partners is a huge part of LIDA and one notable example is our strategic partnership with Leeds City Council. Policy and Intelligence teams from across the Council have been working with LIDA since we launched in July 2015. The Council intelligence functions have a permanent base at LIDA...

Uncategorised / Wednesday, 27 April, 2016

What Can Elite Sport Teach Us About Effective Data Analytics?

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Uncategorised / Thursday, 21 April, 2016

How can Big Data help deliver sustainability strategies?

  The rapid growth of “big data” presents companies with real opportunities to improve business performance. Here Professor William Young, Director of the Sustainability Research Institute talks about ten. Over the last few years there has been much talk about...

Open Data / Thursday, 21 April, 2016

Government Funding For Innovative Use of Open Data

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Uncategorised / Tuesday, 23 February, 2016

Sale of virtual microscope technology

The healthcare company Roche has acquired the intellectual property and technology of the Leeds Virtual Microscope (LVM), an innovative system designed to help pathologists making cancer diagnoses. The technology, developed at the University of Leeds and the Leeds...

Newsletter / Sunday, 07 February, 2016

LIDA Data Services Team

LIDA, including IT Services, have built a unique Data Services team, composed of Analyst, Development and Support specialists.  The team support the delivery of leading edge research across a variety of areas. The team is led by Tom Fleming who has 10 years’ experience of supporting biomedical research within the School...

LIDA Newsletter / Monday, 25 January, 2016

LIDA Newsletter: Introduction from LIDA Director

  It is a great pleasure to provide these introductory words for the first newsletter of the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics.  LIDA (pronounced Lee-dah rather than Lie-dah – we aspire to become world-leading with data…) has been established as an Institute since the spring of 2014.  The Institute...