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NHS Hack Day returns to Cardiff

26th January 2020 by Aidan O'Donnell

At the end of semester two our 2019 students set off (armed with a full semester of javascript) for the Cardiff NHS Hack Day.

This regular event moves around the UK and brings together health specialists, technologists and anyone at all who’s got a suggestion about improving any aspect of healthcare.

There’s an overview of the Cardiff event by one of the judges available here and an account of several of this year’s projects here.

Our Computational Journalism students spent two days working on a app called “Can I eat this?” which allows users with dietary restrictions to scan barcodes on packaging see if a product is safe to consume — their app and their presentation to the judges is available on the Hack Day website and the code is here.

 

Above photo by https://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_clarke

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: collaboration, hackday, interaction, issues, local, nhs, student project

Visualising the Creative Industries in Cardiff: CUROP project

5th June 2017 by Martin Chorley

This summer, our team is running a project funded by the CUROP scheme here at Cardiff University. The Creative Cardiff team have collected a large amount of data on the creative industries in Cardiff, and are now looking for new ways to explore and communicate this data. Our summer project is aiming to do just that, bringing in an undergraduate student to gain some experience of the research environment, carry out some exploratory data analysis, and then design and implement visualisations to aid public understanding of the data.

 

Current mapping of Creative Cardiff data

 

We’ve just recruited our student, Samuel Jones, a first year student in the School of Computer Science and Informatics, and we’ll be getting started on the project soon. As we go, we’ll keep the site updated with progress, and point out the final outcomes once they’re released

Filed Under: Blog, Research Tagged With: creative cardiff, curop, data, map, student project, summer project, vis, visualisation

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