Matters relating to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The first NERC ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ (CDE) conference and hackathon ‘#CDE22’ has just finished, running over the past few days at the University of Birmingham. The Hackathon commenced on 10th July, then the conference itself ran on from Monday 11 to Tuesday 12 July. The event has been the culmination of the work underway […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Thursday 20th May we were pleased to welcome Professor Gordon Blair of Lancaster University and Dr Michael Hollaway of UKCEH to present their joint webinar entitled ‘Virtual labs and digital environments: can virtual lab technology support a paradigm shift towards a more open, collaborative and integrative environmental science?’, together with a live demonstration of […]
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 are pleased to be able to announce the winning teams for the final two events in the NERC COVID-19 Digital Sprint Hackathons – Ecosystem Services and Visualising Risk. We had some really fantastic entries to choose amongst and the judging panels had a hard job. But after much deliberation, the winners to date are […]
The raw material for our work in the Digital Environment programme is of course DATA and, as ever, we need improved means of sourcing and accessing appropriate datasets to support our modelling activities. NERC of course is not short of data!! There are a series of data centres associated with each of the environments, for the exact […]
We are pleased to be able to announce the winning teams for the first two events in the NERC COVID-19 Digital Sprint Hackathons – Air Quality and Recovery. We had some really fantastic entries to choose amongst and the judging panels had a hard job. But after much deliberation, the woinners to date are announced […]