On Friday 8th April, we were pleased to welcome Malcolm Kitchen, a CDE Expert Network member, to present his webinar entitled ‘Opportunistic Data for Weather Forecasting’. This talk continued our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. The economic benefits of accurately targeting weather warnings is driving the development of higher resolution operational forecasting models. […]
On Friday 18th March, we were pleased to welcome Professor Rob Allan from ACRE, to present his webinar entitled ‘CDE Webinar – Prof. Rob Allan: ACRE and International Global Weather Data Rescue’. This talk commenced our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. During the 1990s, Rob worked at the then CSIRO Division for Atmospheric Research in […]
On Friday 25th February, we were pleased to welcome Michael Hollaway, Tom August and Michael Tso from UKCEH, to present their webinar entitled ‘DataLabs – Tales from the frontline of data science’. Their talk brought to a conclusion our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Mike is a Senior Data Scientist […]
On Friday 4th February, we were pleased to welcome Gwen Moncoiffe and Alexandra Kokkinaki from the NERC Environmental Data Service, to present their webinar entitled ‘Introduction to the NERC Vocab Server’. The talk continued our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Drs Gwen Moncoiffe and Alexandra Kokkinaki lead the NERC Vocabulary […]
The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) (https://www.nltk.org) provides an excellent starting point for natural language processing projects. In this blog we wanted to explore the creation and use of a custom docker image to allow one of the components of NLTK, that is the VADER sentiment analysis tool (https://www.nltk.org/_modules/nltk/sentiment/vader.html). A key advantage of VADER (Valence Aware […]
On Friday 14th January, we were pleased to welcome Ag Stephens, Head of Partnerships at CEDA, to present his webinar entitled ‘Overview of JASMIN’. The talk continued our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. As Head of Partnerships at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) (https://www.ceda.ac.uk), Ag has 20 years […]
In our previous blog (https://digitalenvironment.org/the-nvidia-jetson-nano-first-look-and-setup) we explored setting up and running the amazing Jetson Nano Developer Kit from NVIDIA. This little unit is capable of about half a teraflop of floating point calculations using its Maxwell accelerated GPU processor – pretty impressive for a low cost unit. In this blog we were following the ‘Two […]
We’ve got our hands on one of NVIDIA’s amazing ‘Jetson Nano’ processors and developer kit. The Jetson Nano is described by NVIDIA as being used by professional developers to ‘create breakthrough AI products across all industries, and by students and enthusiasts for hands-on AI learning and making amazing projects’ (https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded-computing). This small unit packs a […]
On Friday 3rd December, we were pleased to welcome Helen Glaves, British Geological Survey, to present her webinar entitled ‘Open Science: what’s in it for me?‘. The talk continued our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Helen Glaves is a Senior Data Scientist at the British Geological Survey (BGS), with more […]
On Friday 12th November, we were pleased to welcome Jaana Pinnick, NGDC Grants Manager at the National Geoscience Data Centre / NERC EDS, to present her webinar entitled ‘Research data management services provided by NERC EDS’. The talk commenced our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Jaana Pinnick leads the NGDC […]