Research Support
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Contact our team of data scientists at ask-jgi@bristol.ac.uk
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We have a team of data scientists who can support your project and answer your data sciences queries.
How we can help
Every project is different, so please reach out so that we can find the best way to support your research.
Here are examples of what we can offer:
- Free 1 day of support from our Ask-JGI “ask a data scientist” service for all staff and doctoral students at the University of Bristol. Supported by our team of postgraduates and supervised by our data scientists.
- Costed support from data scientists for your project (for example: 1 day per week for 3 months).
- Extended support by embedding our data scientists into your project or group (for example: 50% FTE for 2 years).
Contact ask-jgi@bristol.ac.uk for more information and advice on how we can help!
Areas of expertise
We can provide a wide range of data science and data intensive research expertise, including:
- Data analysis – recommendations or support with tools and methods for modelling, machine learning, statistics and reproducible analysis pipelines.
- Data communication – data visualisation, dashboards and websites.
- Data management – data management plans and data governance.
- Software development – technical support, coding (for example: Python, R, MATLAB, SQL, bash scripts), code review and best practices.
- Research planning – funding and grant applications, letters of support, experimental design and data ethics.
- Event support – delivering or supporting events, workshops and training.
- Network building – development of long-standing research collaborations.
Examples of previous research collaborations
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Secrets of Brain Health
Discover how learning to play a musical instrument or aerobic exercise can form new neural pathways or even increase brain volume to help your brain stay healthy for longer
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Data Hazards Project
Find out about the project that created data hazards labels for communicating potential harm in data science projects
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Development through data science for somaliland
Project to boost capability in data analysis and data intensive research in Somaliland
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Beyond the Networked City
Building innovative delivery systems for water, sanitation and energy in urban Africa
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CMIP6 Data Hackathon
A hackathon to produce cutting-edge research using data from the Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)
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Building capacity for big data management
Providing hardware and software facilities for high volume data storage and archiving, processing, visualisation, algorithm development and testing for research in academia and industry in Ghana
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Brunel’s Network project
A project that aims to find, record, assess and weight the influence of all the individuals with whom Brunel collaborated in order to deliver projects
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Artist in Residence at the JGI
Find out about the work of artist Ellie Shipman whilst in residence at the JGI
JGI films
Take a look at our library of films showing the activities and events we have supported over the years.