CDE Webinar – Michael Hollaway, Tom August and Michael Tso

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 […]

COVID-19 Hackathons – Winners announced for third and fourth events

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 […]

Sharing Jupyter Notebooks with Binder

One of the great developments in data science is undoubtedly the ‘Notebook’ approach to working through data problems. Of these, the Jupyter Notebook is the best known, although others exist also such as Zeppelin. Notebooks allow you to create a single reference document holding data, markdown text, code and graphical outputs – all in one […]