On Thursday 17th December, we were delighted to have Professor Norman Fenton, Queen Mary London University, present his webinar entitled, ‘Why Big Data and AI machine learning will never work for critical problems of risk assessment – causal reasoning and knowledge to the rescue’. Norman is a well-respected and widely published author with over 300 […]
We all need a little health check every now and again and our scientific equipment is no different. This year we are embarking on a new project CreamT (Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies) based on our fabulous WireWall wave overtopping measurement sensors. Under CreamT, WireWall will return near-real-time hazard data plus system health checks […]
On 3rd December, 2020, we had a most interesting webinar by Professor Sam L. Savage, entitled ‘The Flaw of Averages’, covering themes from his book of the same name. Further information and details of the wider webinar series is online at https://digitalenvironment.org/cde-webinar-series.
Well to answer that we are putting data archives and portals to the test with our #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery Trails. Why have we suddenly asked this question? Following the NERC COVID-19 hackathons it was realised a lot of data sources are used for environmental challenges, but not always data that are publicly available following UKRI-funded research. Given our […]
Have a look at our CDE funded projects page – see https://digitalenvironment.org/home/digital-environment-projects. The project investigators have been making some short video presentations to explain more about their respective research projects. These are a great way to quickly gain an understanding of the enormous span of research the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme is now supporting. […]
We are looking forward to the second Digital Environment open webinar on ‘The Flaw of Averages and How to Cure It‘ with Professor Sam Savage. Thursday 3rd December 15:00 GMT. Sign up at https://digitalenvironment.org/cde-webinar-series/ Our last webinar with Douglas Hubbard has now been made available to watch again