Category: Informatics

Matters relating to the analysis and visualisation of data

CDE Webinar – Dr Vince Smith, Natural History Museum and Dr Mike Howe, BGS. Digitising the world’s collections to address global challenges

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

On Friday 29th April, we were pleased to welcome both Dr Vince Smith of the Natural History Museum, and Dr Mike Howe of BGS, to jointly present their webinar entitled ‘Digitising the world’s collections to address global challenges’. This talk continued our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. Natural science collections can tell us […]

IoT sensors helping to mitigate coastal flood hazards

Posted on by Jenny Brown

Blog credit: Louise Darroch The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. Thanks to a handy cellular modem, an evolving data broker system and the cloud, our Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies (CreamT) project […]

CDE Webinar – Prof. Rob Allan: ACRE and International Global Weather Data Rescue

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

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 […]

CDE Webinar – Michael Hollaway, Tom August and Michael Tso

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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 […]

CDE Webinar – Gwen Moncoiffe and Alexandra Kokkinaki 

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

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 […]

Natural Language Processing – Vader sentiment analysis with NLTK

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

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 […]

Exciting recent developments for Fortran coders

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Expert Network member Sam Harrison describes some exciting recent developments for Fortran coders At the end of last year, a new Twitter channel @FortranTip was launched, with the goal of sharing bite-sized tips on Fortran coding best practices, similar to the @SciPyTip channel does for scientific Python tips. Example tweet from the FortranTip channel The […]

Jetson Nano – Object Detection and Image Classification

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

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 […]

CDE Webinar – Jaana Pinnick

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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 […]

Running X11 QGIS with Docker on a MacBook

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

Previous blogs on this site have highlighted the strengths and advantages of Docker. Docker is a great utility tool that allows ‘containerisation’ of a very wide range of applications, where the containers are used to build images that can be shared, running applications in a way that seals them off from the rest of your computer. This […]