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Excited, overwhelmed, supported

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By Elliot Karikari, Data Scientist My first month at LIDA When was the last time you went on an adventure? I mean packed your bags, booked a one-way ticket to another part of the world, and just took off? Though I’m not in the exact same position, the range of emotions I have gone through...

LIDA and Asda announce data partnership

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Asda and LIDA have joined forces to better understand pressing societal challenges such as nutrition, environmental and health issues through a strategic data partnership. The two institutions have signed an agreement that will see the Leeds-based retailer and the University’s Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) work together on a range of research projects. As part of...

My Data Scientist Experience on LIDA’s Development Programme

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Last spring an email about projects for the LIDA Data Scientist Internship arrived in my student University of Leeds account. As I was thinking about what to pursue next after my MSc in Precision Medicine, the Internship jumped out as a wonderful opportunity. With an emphasis on training up data scientists by exposing them to...

Rebranding the LIDA Data Scientist Development Programme

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The LIDA Data Science Internship Programme is dead, long live the LIDA Data Scientist Development Programme! In recognition of the fantastic work performed by those enrolled on the Programme, LIDA has decided to rebrand its popular Data Science Internship Programme as the LIDA Data Scientist Development Programme and to change the role title of the...

How AI can make health care better

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This online article from The Economist features Professor Alex Frangi (LIDA Director for Research and Innovation) discussing his work on In Silico Trials as part of a wider article about how AI can make health care better For more information, click here  

Networking and Partnership Building: an Intern’s Perspective

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I want my work to have an impact and I believe that harnessing the increasingly available abundance of data is one way of ensuring this. LIDA presents the opportunity to combine my sociological and quantitative/computational skills and I feel grateful that my internship project with the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) at LIDA synchronizes my...

AI can identify heart disease from an eye scan

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Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that can analyse eye scans taken during a routine visit to an optician or eye clinic and identify patients at a high risk of a heart attack. Doctors have recognised that changes to the tiny blood vessels in the retina are indicators of broader vascular disease, including problems...

My Role Models & the Journey that brought me to LIDA

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In their September induction, all nine of this year’s LIDA data scientist interns were asked to bear three things in mind which derive from the Programme’s mission statement, Data Science for Public Good: belonging, community and helping others. They were introduced to LIDA as a community of scientists who share the core values of interdisciplinarity,...

Inside the Turing-LIDA Data Study Group

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The two-week Turing-LIDA Data Study Group (DSG) took place last month, with an incredible amount of data analysis and investigation undertaken in response to challenges set by six organisations (Challenge Owners). The reports detailing each team’s findings will be published in September. In the meantime, let’s take a look inside the DSG from three different...

Turing-LIDA Data Study Group – intensive and innovative collaboration addressing real-world problems

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Monday 12th July saw the launch of an exciting two-week online Data Study Group, being held in partnership between LIDA and The Alan Turing Institute. Data Study Groups (DSG) are an incredible opportunity for organisations (Challenge Owners) to work with talented multi-disciplinary researchers on real-world data science challenges. Those challenges can be quickly and intensely...