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Ask Your Documents (Without Taking the Helicopter)
Finding the needle, faster Much of our work involves large volumes of documents. Finding one detail can mean reading through a 30-page document and then doing it all again for the next question. So this year I've been building a tool that does the searching for us. You ask a question in plain English, it...
Unlocking the Value of Health Data Reuse
By Damilola Ogungbemi Former Data Scientist Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) Health data are often collected for a specific purpose. A clinical trial may compare treatments, an electronic health record may document patient care, and a disease registry may monitor diagnoses and outcomes across a population. Yet the scientific value of these data does...
New LIDA CPD courses help professionals build confidence with data
The Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) is expanding its professional development offering with a new suite of online CPD courses designed to help professionals develop practical data skills and make more confident, evidence-based decisions in the workplace. Delivered in partnership with the University of Leeds, the new Applied Data Science and Analytics CPD suite...