Showcase 2018

Our first JGI Showcase event included top data science speakers, an exhibition of JGI funded projects, innovative approaches to data visualisations, data competitions and examples of external partnership projects.

We were lucky to have Dan Crichton and Trevor Hastie as our keynote speakers. This is the full list of talks with slides / further info where available:

  • Kate Robson Brown, Professor and Jean Golding Institute Director - The Jean Golding Institute

  • Nishan Canagarajah, Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Bristol

  • Trevor Hastie, Stanford University - Statistical learning with big data (PDF, 5,885kB)

  • Jean Golding, Emeritus Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology at the University of Bristol - A life in data

  • Bill Browne, Professor of Statistics at the University of Bristol - Confessions of a 'big' data scientist - setting up a data-intensive research institute

  • Tom Williams, Senior Research Fellow/Proleptic Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol - Developing a deep learning method for phylogenomics (PDF, 971kB)

  • Dima Damen, Senior Lecturer in Computer Vision at the University of Bristol - The lifetime of objects through wearable data

  • Pablo Ouro Barba, Research Assistant, School of Engineering at Cardiff University - Evaluating the performance of a large-eddy simulation code in 64-bit ARM processors

  • Oliver Davis, Reader in Statistical Genetics at the University of Bristol and Simon Johnson, Free Ice Cream - Playable Data for Human Health (PDF, 865kB)

  • Tom Smith, Managing Director, Data Science Campus at the Office for National Statistics -Developing partnerships in data science

  • Colin Taylor, Professor of Earthquake Engineering at the University of Bristol - Modelling current account switching behaviour - making sense of the data

  • Hugh Brady, Vice-Chancellor and President at the University of Bristol 

  • Dan Crichton, Principal Investigator at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Unlocking data science from space to biology (PDF, 6,409kB)

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