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Restricting retail food promotions: implementation challenges could limit policy success

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New plans to restrict point-of-sale promotions of less healthy foods and drinks in England, aim to encourage healthier choices. With responsibility for implementation likely falling to food retailers, it is important to understand feasibility challenges, to ensure policy success. Researchers from LIDA applied the rules in the policy proposal to a database containing 45,000 food...

COVID 19 – Providing new insights to aid societal recovery

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Earlier this year we announced our involvement in the Emergent Alliance – a not-for-profit community established to share data, expertise and resources to work together to aid economic recovery in 2020 and shape a new normal. What is the Emergent Alliance? The Emergent Alliance is a collaboration of large organisations, small businesses, institutes and individuals...

What can tweets about contact tracing apps tell us about attitudes towards data sharing for public health? (Part 1)

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Holly Clarke is an intern on our Data Scientist Internship Programme – She is working for the LifeInfo project with Michelle Morris, researching attitudes towards novel lifestyle and health data linkages and how access to this information could improve public health.  This is the first of a series of blogs she has written for the Consumer Data Research...

Intern life, the pandemic and everything

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I was asked to write about how I’m coping with intern life during lockdown. As I’m typing this, I realise I’m quite possibly the least representative person to write about this topic. For me, there is truly no place like home, to relax or work. As a strong introvert who lives in her head most...

LIDA joins powerful new COVID-19 data alliance

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Leeds Institute for Data Analytics will provide a powerful new COVID-19 data alliance with secure infrastructure, scientific expertise and access to global academic research networks. LIDA has worked alongside consortium-leader Rolls-Royce to develop the concept and will take a founding position in this new alliance of data analytics experts challenged with finding new, faster ways...

Thoughts on the LIDA Internship Programme – Vijay Kumar

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  Do you have a research or industry figure role model, and what about them inspires you? A role model of mine would be my previous supervisor during my last year of university, Ben Varcoe. He is a professor at the University of Leeds, and chair of Experiment Quantum Information Science. I admire Professor Varcoe’s...

Improving lives through Big Data – Holly Clarke

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Holly (third from right), along with fellow LIDA interns, attending the Improving Lives Through Place-Based Urban Analytics event in Bradford.   I have been a Data Science Intern at LIDA for three months now but still I find it hard to answer my friends’ question of “So, what exactly do you do?”.  Say the words...

Attending the Women in Data conference – Claire Shadbolt

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Data has become commonplace in everyday life; the current landscape is rich with opportunities to capture, analyse and interpret data. Thus, data scientists are in tremendous demand, and this will only continue to increase. As someone who has just started their career in data as a Data Scientist Intern at LIDA, I wanted to attend...

An introduction to the LIDA internship – Francisco Videira

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Francisco attending the conference at the Joint Research Centre   Background Before moving to Leeds, I lived and studied in Lisbon, Portugal – yes, I have seen more grey skies this autumn than ever before.  I completed a BSc in Computer Science after my initial attempt at Medical School. I mostly enjoyed learning about databases...

What’s happened to UK migration since the EU referendum – in four graphs

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Net migration has gone down since the referendum. 1000 words/Shutterstock Nik Lomax, University of Leeds Many of the analyses of why a majority of British voters opted to leave the European Union in a referendum in June 2016, have pointed to a desire to control immigration as a key driving factor. However, surveys since the...