Matters pertaining to environmental data science
Docker, https://docs.docker.com/get-started/overview, is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Docker enables separation of ‘containerised’ applications from local computing infrastructure. It’s a popular way of preparing programmes to share with others (https://hub.docker.com) and to run on remote computers also. Using docker means not having to have complex software server applications installed locally. Instead […]
Monday 20th September 2021, 4-5.30pm Members of the Digital Environment Expert Network participated in a chat show style event on Digital Environments: Disentangling Nature Through Technology. This event was hosted by Prof. Steve Hallett, joined by Prof. Jane Hart, Dr Jenny Brown, Dr John Siddorn and Dr Matt Fry. They wrestled with questions such as: Can […]
Authors: Emma Bee (British Geological Survey), Mirianna Budimir (Practical Action UK) and Jonathan Paul (Royal Holloway University). Approximately 93% of the global population has access to a mobile broadband network 1. Mobile phone ownership has also increased rapidly, with global smartphone connections doubling in just five years and rising sixfold in South Asia 2. Whilst […]
Professor Marion Scott, one of the CDE Expert Network members, and her research team have just produced an excellent animated ‘story map’ of their research project. This is a tale of how when the world turns upside down; engineers find a way to ‘get the job done’! The project involves plannig to develop and deploy […]
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 […]
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.
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