Data with the power to improve cancer care
The UK statistics on bowel cancer are clear. It is the fourth most common cancer in the UK, with over 41,000 new cases each year....
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Virtual Reality at Leeds
Immersive technologies - including virtual, augmented and mixed reality - are radically changing the way we use technology. The University of Leeds is at the...
Using population data to inform infrastructure investment
So many of the services that we all take for granted – water, digital connectivity, transport, or energy – require huge amounts of planning...
HABITS
The purpose of HABITS is to design improved policy to mitigate pollutant and inactivity related health burdens through new big data opportunities. Researchers at the...
Catch! - real time simulation of daily travel patterns
Introduction The proliferation of smartphone ownership and app usage has enabled new forms of data collection about how people use transportation. Currently, data is collected...
Large-scale evolutionary analysis of the transcriptome of poison arrow frogs
Introduction The transcriptome (the sum total of all the messenger RNA molecules expressed from the genes of an organism) of poison arrow frogs has not...
Investigating factors behind low or zero household recycling rates in Leeds
Introduction There are large differences in the rates of household bin use in different parts of Leeds with a high level of contamination being seen...
Dynamic data assimilation in agent-based models
Introduction Agent-based models (ABMs) play a useful role in social sciences, helping us to understand emergent patterns in social and environmental systems while retaining detail...
Assessing the effectiveness of the e-petition procedure through Twitter conversations
Introduction The House of Commons hopes that their new e-petition system, which was relaunched in July 2015, may help to provide a way to more effectively...
Virtuocity
Cities are entering a new age where new technologies could dramatically change the way people move. New insight is required to understand how we will...