Four key appointments will build on the success of the Leeds Institute of Data Analytics. In autumn 2018 LIDA has established four new deputy director roles to support the development of the Institute’s Research & Innovation, Education & Training and Research Technology portfolios. Appointments to these new roles took effect from 1 September 2018; LIDA...
Driven by our founding mission to help bridge the gap between university and industry, the Data Science Society will continue to create an inclusive environment for our members and partners to learn and network. This first term of 2018/2019 has been busier and more successful than ever, and we have plenty more in the pipeline...
Today the Alan Turing Institute has announced a new urban analytics research programme, led by the University of Leeds. The Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, with nine strategic research programmes in areas such as artificial intelligence, health and public policy. Urban analytics is the latest priority...
Article by Vicki Jenneson On the 18th September, the Centre for Data Analytics and Society held its first annual partner event at LIDA. Attended by academics from across the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) institutions and representatives from partner organisations, the event proved a great opportunity for networking and for the students to share what’s...
24 researchers from the University of Leeds will begin Fellowships at The Alan Turing Institute this Autumn, as part of our shared commitment to make great leaps in data science research to change the world for the better. The prestigious Fellowships, which are the next stage in a partnership announced earlier this year between the University and the UK’s national institute for...
In this guest blog for UKDS Rachel Oldroyd, CDRC PhD Student and one of the UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows, takes a step-by-step approach to using R and RStudio to analyse Food Hygiene Rating Scores.
With any LIDA seminar there is lots to take away from the session that is thought provoking. If you attended the most recent seminar in the LIDA series, concerned with data visualization and, in particular, novel ways in which population data can be mapped as structures, you were in for an interesting afternoon of reflecting...
Dr Roger Beecham, in his talk, “Maps as Statistics? A call to Adventure for Perception Research in (geo)visualization”, argued that line-up tests (“the Visual Line-up Method” first proposed by Wickham et al. in 2010) remove some of the potential pitfalls when trying to make inferences from graphics. Line-up tests, depicted in the figure below, are...
The keynote speaker for the seminar, Dr Jonathan Minton’s main substantive areas of interest are in demography and public health, and his methodological interests are in promoting good data science practices in quantitative research, and in complex exploratory data visualization. Thus, his examples of mapping population data were drawn largely from despair-related deaths in deprived...
Nik Lomax and Andrew Smith have provided evidence to the National Infrastructure Assessment, published on the 10th July 2018. They developed a baseline projection for population and employment in UK cities and undertook sensitivity testing of projections to consider outcomes under different assumptions about future growth patterns. They then developed alternative scenarios for population and employment...