Data observatory

Bitcoin transactions
A visualisation designed by the Data Science Institute of bitcoin activity across the globe including a real-time demonstration of bitcoin transactions.
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Snakes and ladders in a large bank
Exploring how people are flowing through their job families and the effect of machine learning and workforce automation
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Commercial applications for a telematics driver app
A small start-up company with a large telematics data set derived from their mobile phone app wanted to explore commercial applications for their data
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Data spark

Modelling Conditional Probability of (Re-)Emerging Infectious Diseases
As part of the Data Spark programme, five students had the opportunity to undertake research for ProMED
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Improving customer satisfaction on UK highways
Ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction on the UK road network is a key strategic challenge
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Promotion, Exit and Digitisation in a Global Corporation
The Royal Bank of Canada wanted to understand the drivers for staff promotion and retention across different business platforms and countries
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Research centre

What is data worth? Intangible investments, tangible results
Intangible investments are at the heart of innovation. But what is innovation exactly?
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Hit the market now: real-time optimisation for dynamic pricing
The service industry is a hotbed of applications for data-centric innovations
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The rise of the machines again
More people are predicting that AI will bring a social and economic change of an order
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How artificial intelligence will affect bankers, lawyers and accountants
How AI and machine learning will affect business has been a source of fear, panic and excitement for decades
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