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A free event taking place at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham will explore how businesses are using data to evolve, and what businesses can do to improve their use of data.
The Big Data Can…Evolve Business event is part of a series of events taking place at the University of Kent across both Medway and Canterbury.
A free public lecture series at the University of Kent will explore the impact of Big Data on people, decisions, services and the environment.
The ‘Big Data Can’ series is organised by the Business and Local Government Data Research Centre and is open to the general public, private and public sector employees, university staff and students to attend.
*This call has now closed.* The Business and Local Government Data Research Centre, and Kent County Council, are launching a call for researchers to submit an expression of interest to access the Kent Integrated Dataset (KID).
Small businesses and local authorities have the opportunity to attend a discounted data analytics summer school with University experts.
The event “BLG Summer School in Data Analytics: Effective Tools and Techniques” takes place at the University of Essex from 10 to 14 July.
The Business and Local Government Data Research Centre is inviting postdoctoral researchers from the EU to apply for a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship to contribute to its Local Economic Growth research programme.
The Centre provides unique data services and a world-class facility that brings together the expertise of academic researchers, social scientists and data scientists to help organisations to solve real issues.
Experts from local universities will help businesses exploit their data thanks to funding available from innovation vouchers.
BLGDRC is inviting small business owners, public sector organisations and local government including councils to apply for a £2,000 Data Analytics Innovation Voucher (DAIV).
The risk of death after a heart attack is lower than previously thought, and more widespread prescription of beta blockers could further improve survival rates, according to new research.
Researchers from the Business and Local Government Data Research Centre contributed to a study which calculated the chances of survival after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the general population aged 60 and over in the UK.
In this year’s Autumn Statement the Government pledged to create a National Productivity Investment Fund which will spend £23billion on innovations and infrastructure over five years. The funds will be allocated to areas that are deemed to be critical to productivity growth including transport, research, housing and digital communications. University of Essex academic Professor Vania Sena considers what this could mean for local economic growth.
Archived news stories
- 17 November 2016 - On Small Business Saturday: What could small businesses learn from data?
- 17 November 2016 - Can Tendring’s superfast broadband boost business?
- 4 November 2016 - How is Big Data research changing lives?
- 2 November 2016 - Job Opportunity – Research Fellow
- 14 October 2016 - What can Big Data do for Businesses?
- 28 September 2016 - Big Data. Big Questions.
- 15 September 2016 - Centre staff and researchers share expertise at IADS summer school
- 25 August 2016 - Expertise of the Centre’s researchers is in demand
- 18 August 2016 - BLG researchers work on project with Mondaq
- 17 August 2016 - We’re at the Big Data and Analytics Summer School
- 1 June 2016 - Using Big Data to Monitor the Brexit Campaign
- 19 May 2016 - Berthold Lausen leads ‘Ensemble of selected classifiers’ seminar
- 18 April 2016 - ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity
- 18 April 2016 - Job Opportunity – Research Fellow
- 14 April 2016 - Job Opportunity – Outreach and Engagement Coordinator (Fixed Term)
- 14 April 2016 - Job Opportunity – Research Data User Support Officer
- 1 April 2016 - Could a computer tell you when your time is up?
- 31 March 2016 - Business expertise on the EU Referendum
- 15 March 2016 - What data do you need?
- 4 March 2016 - Abhijit Sengupta recently led a workshop on Energy Systems Modelling in Saudi Arabia
- 10 February 2016 - Secondary Data Analysis Initiative
- 22 January 2016 - Vania Sena joins the Association of European Operational Research Societies working group on productivity and efficiency
- 18 December 2015 - Public dialogues on the (re)use of private sector data for social research
- 14 December 2015 - Data Stream
- 14 December 2015 - Part of the Crowd
- 11 December 2015 - Essex ‘big data’ projects feature in ESRC magazine
- 23 November 2015 - Can big data improve your local area?
- 30 October 2015 - New opportunities for data driven research
- 21 October 2015 - Joint event series with UEA ask the big questions on big data
- 19 October 2015 - GIS database to be built to assess the current accessible greenspace in Essex
- 24 September 2015 - Big Data, Big Questions. UEA Guest Lecture Series
- 7 September 2015 - University of Essex becomes an official supporter of the ODI
- 13 August 2015 - Work with us: We are seeking two Senior Research Associates to be based at UEA
- 24 June 2015 - Professor Ruth Hancock presents research to the House of Lords
- 21 March 2015 - Digging in data feature article in Society Now
- 14 March 2015 - Colchester people give their views on the big deals about big data in a Public Dialogue
- 7 February 2015 - Public Dialogue
- 28 January 2015 - Financing of small and medium sized enterprises
- 23 January 2015 - Call for Secondary Data Analysis Initiative Phase 3 now closed
- 9 November 2014 - Good news for SMEs in the Autumn Statement
- 20 October 2014 - Getting to the heart of smart data
- 15 October 2014 - Big Data for business and local government
- 15 October 2014 - The ESRC are launching their Big Data Network – Phase 2