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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...
Molly Asher (Leeds Institute for Data Analytics), Simon Brereton (Leeds City Council), and me have recently finished a project whose aim was to analyse footfall in Leeds city centre and build computer models (using machine-learning) that could estimate footfall given some external conditions (e.g. the weather, time of year, whether it was a holiday, etc.)....
The Consumer Data Research Centre is pleased to invite proposals from UK-based academics for projects that will capitalise on our core consumer data sets, extend our network of partners, and drive forward substantive and innovative social science research across a broad range of disciplines and research areas. We welcome proposals that would contribute to our existing CDRC...
Congratulations to the Leeds Data Science Society who have been announced the winners of the Hiscox University Challenge. The University of Leeds team fought off stiff competition from York and LSE to secure the trophy and a prize of £1000 for their society. All of the teams were set two challenges – the first was...
“Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don’t just vote. Know what you’re voting for, and stand by that.” Nikki Reed, American Actress One of the oft cited phenomena from the recent 2017 United Kingdom General election has been the rise in the participation by...