Matters related to programming and software engineering
The NERC Digital Gathering #DG23 Hackathon event, held following the conference has now finished. We adopted a ‘collaborative’ approach to this year’s hackathon, with two groups of experienced instructors helping to facilitate the delegates to use the software tools and computational environments on offer to further their research. Expert Network member Prof. Richard Reeve and […]
Following the successful #DG23 Digital Gathering conference, comes the the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ Digital Gathering 23 Hackathon, where the first day has now completed (https://lnkd.in/ewmVU7FW). Held at Churchill College, Cambridge, the hackathon is led by Digital Environment Expert Network member Prof Richard Reeve, Professor of Population and Ecosystem Health and team from the University of Glasgow, […]
The NERC ‘Digital Gathering 23’ has now drawn to a successful conclusion, organised through the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme. Held at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge on 10-11th July, the #DG23 International conference hosted a series of excellent oral presentation, spotlight talks, posters and masterclass workshops focussing on four of the core themes of […]
Dr Peter Battaglia, Google DeepMind provided a presentation on the use of AI in medium range global weather forecasting. Peter Battaglia is a Research Scientist/Director at DeepMind. His work focuses on approaches for modelling and reasoning about complex systems, by combining richly structured knowledge with flexible learning algorithms. In this webinar, Peter presented his recent […]
Dr Sari Giering, NOC and Dr Robert Blackwell, CEFAS provided a joint overview of the role and opportunity of AI in oceanic plankton monitoring. Sari is a researcher at the National Oceanography Centre. Her research interests focus on how marine organisms influence the capacity of the ocean to store carbon. Her research combines shipboard measurements, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]