he Digital Footprints Conference is an innovative forum dedicated to communicating the vast potential of novel digital data for public good. The conference showcases multidisciplinary research in the field of digital footprints, bringing together a multi-sector audience – academics, policy-makers, government representatives, industry – to share insights and frameworks for working with this data.

The conference covers a broad scope of cutting-edge topics. In 2023, these included: leveraging shopping loyalty card data to understand dietary transitions and nutrient deficiency, using social media data to measure mental health and wellbeing, exploring spatial patterns of vulnerability using linked health data, using mobile phone traces to examine transport and mobility segregation in urban spaces, and investigating customer trends in take-away purchasing using geospatial data from food delivery platforms.

Speakers include:

• Osama Rahman (Director of Data Science Campus, Office of National Statistics, UK)
• Andy Boyd (Director of UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration, University of Bristol, UK)
• Frederik Trier Møller (Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Jeff Brunstorm (Professor of Experimental Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK).

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