Leeds Institute for Data Analytics
@lida-leeds.bsky.social
Multidisciplinary data science and artificial intelligence at the University of Leeds. Follow us for the latest tech and data news, events and how to get involved.
https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/
https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/
🚀 Unlock the Power of Your Data
30min webinar for private, public & third sector leaders - multiple dates
Feeling the pressure to make smarter decisions with tighter budgets and limited capacity? You’re not alone - and you don’t need to do it all in-house.
30min webinar for private, public & third sector leaders - multiple dates
Feeling the pressure to make smarter decisions with tighter budgets and limited capacity? You’re not alone - and you don’t need to do it all in-house.
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚀 Unlock the Power of Your Data
30min webinar for private, public & third sector leaders - multiple dates
Feeling the pressure to make smarter decisions with tighter budgets and limited capacity? You’re not alone - and you don’t need to do it all in-house.
30min webinar for private, public & third sector leaders - multiple dates
Feeling the pressure to make smarter decisions with tighter budgets and limited capacity? You’re not alone - and you don’t need to do it all in-house.
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🚀 Students aren’t just learning AI ethics - they’re shaping it. Our new MSc in AI Ethics and Society is co-created with learners from day one. Find out how pizza sparked pedagogy: bit.ly/4pxTiAp
#EthicalAI #SocietalFutures #MastersAtLeeds #FutureLeaders #PostgradLeeds
#EthicalAI #SocietalFutures #MastersAtLeeds #FutureLeaders #PostgradLeeds
Co-creating the new AI Ethics and Society MSc - Leeds Institute for Societal Futures
Student ideas are influencing our programme before the first lecture begins. We worked with the Student Partnerships Team to involve students from the outset At Leeds Institute for Societal Futures we...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🚀 Students aren’t just learning AI ethics - they’re shaping it. Our new MSc in AI Ethics and Society is co-created with learners from day one. Find out how pizza sparked pedagogy: bit.ly/4pxTiAp
#EthicalAI #SocietalFutures #MastersAtLeeds #FutureLeaders #PostgradLeeds
#EthicalAI #SocietalFutures #MastersAtLeeds #FutureLeaders #PostgradLeeds
Welcome to the LIDA Annual Showcase 2025
A celebration of a year of impact, innovation and collaboration across data science, AI, research and education at University of Leeds.
📊 What’s inside:
A celebration of a year of impact, innovation and collaboration across data science, AI, research and education at University of Leeds.
📊 What’s inside:
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Welcome to the LIDA Annual Showcase 2025
A celebration of a year of impact, innovation and collaboration across data science, AI, research and education at University of Leeds.
📊 What’s inside:
A celebration of a year of impact, innovation and collaboration across data science, AI, research and education at University of Leeds.
📊 What’s inside:
A year after securing MRC Biomedical Data Science Leadership funding, PROMOTE has entered an exciting new phase.
PROMOTE is focused on strengthening career pathways for biomedical data scientists through mentoring, equity, collaboration and training across academia, industry and the health sector.
PROMOTE is focused on strengthening career pathways for biomedical data scientists through mentoring, equity, collaboration and training across academia, industry and the health sector.
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A year after securing MRC Biomedical Data Science Leadership funding, PROMOTE has entered an exciting new phase.
PROMOTE is focused on strengthening career pathways for biomedical data scientists through mentoring, equity, collaboration and training across academia, industry and the health sector.
PROMOTE is focused on strengthening career pathways for biomedical data scientists through mentoring, equity, collaboration and training across academia, industry and the health sector.
📢 Outstanding award win
Dr Hall, Associate Professor and Lead of the LIDA Health Community at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, has been awarded a £2million @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fellowship - a prestigious fellowship recognising exceptional mid-career researchers becoming leaders in their field.
Dr Hall, Associate Professor and Lead of the LIDA Health Community at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, has been awarded a £2million @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fellowship - a prestigious fellowship recognising exceptional mid-career researchers becoming leaders in their field.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
📢 Outstanding award win
Dr Hall, Associate Professor and Lead of the LIDA Health Community at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, has been awarded a £2million @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fellowship - a prestigious fellowship recognising exceptional mid-career researchers becoming leaders in their field.
Dr Hall, Associate Professor and Lead of the LIDA Health Community at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, has been awarded a £2million @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fellowship - a prestigious fellowship recognising exceptional mid-career researchers becoming leaders in their field.
✨ What an inspiring day of Women in Data & AI!
We were thrilled to host an incredible, diverse, and truly interdisciplinary group of women for our first-ever Women in Data & AI Summit here in Leeds.
We're looking forward to hosting more events and opportunities for women in the north of England.
We were thrilled to host an incredible, diverse, and truly interdisciplinary group of women for our first-ever Women in Data & AI Summit here in Leeds.
We're looking forward to hosting more events and opportunities for women in the north of England.
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
✨ What an inspiring day of Women in Data & AI!
We were thrilled to host an incredible, diverse, and truly interdisciplinary group of women for our first-ever Women in Data & AI Summit here in Leeds.
We're looking forward to hosting more events and opportunities for women in the north of England.
We were thrilled to host an incredible, diverse, and truly interdisciplinary group of women for our first-ever Women in Data & AI Summit here in Leeds.
We're looking forward to hosting more events and opportunities for women in the north of England.
💡5 Lessons from a Year in Data💡
How do you stay motivated when there’s always more to learn and be confident in what you do?
"Starting something new, especially in a field as extensive as data, forces you to confront not only what you do not know, but also what you thought you did."
How do you stay motivated when there’s always more to learn and be confident in what you do?
"Starting something new, especially in a field as extensive as data, forces you to confront not only what you do not know, but also what you thought you did."
October 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
💡5 Lessons from a Year in Data💡
How do you stay motivated when there’s always more to learn and be confident in what you do?
"Starting something new, especially in a field as extensive as data, forces you to confront not only what you do not know, but also what you thought you did."
How do you stay motivated when there’s always more to learn and be confident in what you do?
"Starting something new, especially in a field as extensive as data, forces you to confront not only what you do not know, but also what you thought you did."
🆕 Women in Data & AI Summit 2025
Join us for a brand new event celebrating and spotlighting
women driving innovation in data science and artificial intelligence.
We're bringing together academia, industry, and the public sector to share knowledge, build connections, and inspire future leaders.
Join us for a brand new event celebrating and spotlighting
women driving innovation in data science and artificial intelligence.
We're bringing together academia, industry, and the public sector to share knowledge, build connections, and inspire future leaders.
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🆕 Women in Data & AI Summit 2025
Join us for a brand new event celebrating and spotlighting
women driving innovation in data science and artificial intelligence.
We're bringing together academia, industry, and the public sector to share knowledge, build connections, and inspire future leaders.
Join us for a brand new event celebrating and spotlighting
women driving innovation in data science and artificial intelligence.
We're bringing together academia, industry, and the public sector to share knowledge, build connections, and inspire future leaders.
✨ “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
For many young girls, the answer could be scientist, engineer, or #data leader - if they’re given the chance to explore early.
When girls are encouraged to follow their curiosity in #STEM, the results ripple far beyond the classroom.
For many young girls, the answer could be scientist, engineer, or #data leader - if they’re given the chance to explore early.
When girls are encouraged to follow their curiosity in #STEM, the results ripple far beyond the classroom.
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We’ve joined forces with @kpmguk.bsky.social to advance capabilities in detecting, analysing, and responding to malicious #cyber threats.
#Cybercrime is estimated to cost the UK £27bn per year and cyber incident investigations are typically time-consuming, resource-intensive, and heavily manual.
#Cybercrime is estimated to cost the UK £27bn per year and cyber incident investigations are typically time-consuming, resource-intensive, and heavily manual.
September 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We’ve joined forces with @kpmguk.bsky.social to advance capabilities in detecting, analysing, and responding to malicious #cyber threats.
#Cybercrime is estimated to cost the UK £27bn per year and cyber incident investigations are typically time-consuming, resource-intensive, and heavily manual.
#Cybercrime is estimated to cost the UK £27bn per year and cyber incident investigations are typically time-consuming, resource-intensive, and heavily manual.
How good are your AI instructions?
"The difference between a basic prompt and a well-crafted, domain-aware one was significant. It turned a model that struggled with intermediate queries into one that could handle complex SQL generation effectively."
"The difference between a basic prompt and a well-crafted, domain-aware one was significant. It turned a model that struggled with intermediate queries into one that could handle complex SQL generation effectively."
Why Your AI Is Only as Good as Your Instructions | Leeds Institute for Data Analytics
lida.leeds.ac.uk
September 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
How good are your AI instructions?
"The difference between a basic prompt and a well-crafted, domain-aware one was significant. It turned a model that struggled with intermediate queries into one that could handle complex SQL generation effectively."
"The difference between a basic prompt and a well-crafted, domain-aware one was significant. It turned a model that struggled with intermediate queries into one that could handle complex SQL generation effectively."
Simulating how diseases spread in a population
To improve public health (like planning better vaccine strategies), we need data science models that consider all the different interacting factors together, that contribute to infection rates.
To improve public health (like planning better vaccine strategies), we need data science models that consider all the different interacting factors together, that contribute to infection rates.
Causal Inference Frameworks for Individual Based Models | Leeds Institute for Data Analytics
lida.leeds.ac.uk
July 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Simulating how diseases spread in a population
To improve public health (like planning better vaccine strategies), we need data science models that consider all the different interacting factors together, that contribute to infection rates.
To improve public health (like planning better vaccine strategies), we need data science models that consider all the different interacting factors together, that contribute to infection rates.
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It seems there’s now a small industry dedicated to fixing ChatGPT disasters www.bbc.com/news/article...
'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
Businesses that rush to use AI to write content or computer code, often have to pay humans to fix it.
www.bbc.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It seems there’s now a small industry dedicated to fixing ChatGPT disasters www.bbc.com/news/article...
🚀 Build your dream data team 🚀
If you could magically add ONE role to your data dream team tomorrow, who are you picking? 👇
🧠 Mind-reading analyst
🤖 Auto-training AI model
🎨 Dashboard design wizard
🕵️ Instant insight finder
#DataScience #Analytics #Innovation #Data #DataInsights #AI #Visualization
If you could magically add ONE role to your data dream team tomorrow, who are you picking? 👇
🧠 Mind-reading analyst
🤖 Auto-training AI model
🎨 Dashboard design wizard
🕵️ Instant insight finder
#DataScience #Analytics #Innovation #Data #DataInsights #AI #Visualization
June 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🚀 Build your dream data team 🚀
If you could magically add ONE role to your data dream team tomorrow, who are you picking? 👇
🧠 Mind-reading analyst
🤖 Auto-training AI model
🎨 Dashboard design wizard
🕵️ Instant insight finder
#DataScience #Analytics #Innovation #Data #DataInsights #AI #Visualization
If you could magically add ONE role to your data dream team tomorrow, who are you picking? 👇
🧠 Mind-reading analyst
🤖 Auto-training AI model
🎨 Dashboard design wizard
🕵️ Instant insight finder
#DataScience #Analytics #Innovation #Data #DataInsights #AI #Visualization
❓ How are technological disruptions reshaping the science of social inquiry?
❓ How can scientists harness these innovations while maintaining their rigor?
❓ What new questions can be answered?
❓ What established practices need reconsidering?
Join us for talks, drinks and networking.
bit.ly/3HYc9Ec
❓ How can scientists harness these innovations while maintaining their rigor?
❓ What new questions can be answered?
❓ What established practices need reconsidering?
Join us for talks, drinks and networking.
bit.ly/3HYc9Ec
Meeting the AI and Big Data Revolutions in Quantitative Social Science
Introducing the LIDA: Science of Data Science Programme. Join us for lectures and interactive discussion followed by drinks and networking.
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June 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
❓ How are technological disruptions reshaping the science of social inquiry?
❓ How can scientists harness these innovations while maintaining their rigor?
❓ What new questions can be answered?
❓ What established practices need reconsidering?
Join us for talks, drinks and networking.
bit.ly/3HYc9Ec
❓ How can scientists harness these innovations while maintaining their rigor?
❓ What new questions can be answered?
❓ What established practices need reconsidering?
Join us for talks, drinks and networking.
bit.ly/3HYc9Ec
Insightful and valuable conversations today at our Leeds Cancer Data Day!
🌐 International data sharing and local storage
🧰 Blockers and solutions
🤝 Examples of research projects and collaborations
A fantastic day with people working towards better #cancer #data, #research and #treatment.
🌐 International data sharing and local storage
🧰 Blockers and solutions
🤝 Examples of research projects and collaborations
A fantastic day with people working towards better #cancer #data, #research and #treatment.
June 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Insightful and valuable conversations today at our Leeds Cancer Data Day!
🌐 International data sharing and local storage
🧰 Blockers and solutions
🤝 Examples of research projects and collaborations
A fantastic day with people working towards better #cancer #data, #research and #treatment.
🌐 International data sharing and local storage
🧰 Blockers and solutions
🤝 Examples of research projects and collaborations
A fantastic day with people working towards better #cancer #data, #research and #treatment.
Wrangling Chaos: 6 Things I Wish I Knew Before Tackling Messy Data
We’ve all been there, you’re excited to start a task, you open a data file expecting clean columns and neatly labelled headers, and instead, it looks like your spreadsheet threw a wild party and forgot to clean up. Sound familiar?
We’ve all been there, you’re excited to start a task, you open a data file expecting clean columns and neatly labelled headers, and instead, it looks like your spreadsheet threw a wild party and forgot to clean up. Sound familiar?
June 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Wrangling Chaos: 6 Things I Wish I Knew Before Tackling Messy Data
We’ve all been there, you’re excited to start a task, you open a data file expecting clean columns and neatly labelled headers, and instead, it looks like your spreadsheet threw a wild party and forgot to clean up. Sound familiar?
We’ve all been there, you’re excited to start a task, you open a data file expecting clean columns and neatly labelled headers, and instead, it looks like your spreadsheet threw a wild party and forgot to clean up. Sound familiar?
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Are you registered for our webinar on Wed 18th June, 12.00-12.40pm?
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/turbulence...
This informative talk by Dr Steffen Hirth will discuss disruptions to the food chain due to recent global events and the vulnerabilities they have highlighted.
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👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/turbulence...
This informative talk by Dr Steffen Hirth will discuss disruptions to the food chain due to recent global events and the vulnerabilities they have highlighted.
👇
June 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Are you registered for our webinar on Wed 18th June, 12.00-12.40pm?
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/turbulence...
This informative talk by Dr Steffen Hirth will discuss disruptions to the food chain due to recent global events and the vulnerabilities they have highlighted.
👇
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/turbulence...
This informative talk by Dr Steffen Hirth will discuss disruptions to the food chain due to recent global events and the vulnerabilities they have highlighted.
👇
🚨 Work in the vulnerability in policing space? You won't want to miss out on this event! 🚨
It covers a range of topics and our own LIDA: Societies Founding Co-director, Daniel Birks, is running a session about "Measuring vulnerability: harnessing routinely collected data".
Sign up today 👇
It covers a range of topics and our own LIDA: Societies Founding Co-director, Daniel Birks, is running a session about "Measuring vulnerability: harnessing routinely collected data".
Sign up today 👇
The programme is now confirmed and registrations open for our annual conference "Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice".
🗓️ 9-10 September 2025
📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK
Read more and register:
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...
🗓️ 9-10 September 2025
📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK
Read more and register:
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...
Annual conference - Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
Register for the Centre's annual conference: Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice.
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk
June 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🚨 Work in the vulnerability in policing space? You won't want to miss out on this event! 🚨
It covers a range of topics and our own LIDA: Societies Founding Co-director, Daniel Birks, is running a session about "Measuring vulnerability: harnessing routinely collected data".
Sign up today 👇
It covers a range of topics and our own LIDA: Societies Founding Co-director, Daniel Birks, is running a session about "Measuring vulnerability: harnessing routinely collected data".
Sign up today 👇
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The programme is now confirmed and registrations open for our annual conference "Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice".
🗓️ 9-10 September 2025
📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK
Read more and register:
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...
🗓️ 9-10 September 2025
📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK
Read more and register:
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...
Annual conference - Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
Register for the Centre's annual conference: Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice.
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk
June 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The programme is now confirmed and registrations open for our annual conference "Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice".
🗓️ 9-10 September 2025
📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK
Read more and register:
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...
🗓️ 9-10 September 2025
📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK
Read more and register:
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...
There's just one week to go until our Leeds Cancer Data Day, with only a few tickets remaining...
Join us on Wednesday 11th June 9:30am - 3:15pm at Nexus Leeds
Join us for high profile external and internal talks about local and national data sets and the research they enable.
Join us on Wednesday 11th June 9:30am - 3:15pm at Nexus Leeds
Join us for high profile external and internal talks about local and national data sets and the research they enable.
June 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
There's just one week to go until our Leeds Cancer Data Day, with only a few tickets remaining...
Join us on Wednesday 11th June 9:30am - 3:15pm at Nexus Leeds
Join us for high profile external and internal talks about local and national data sets and the research they enable.
Join us on Wednesday 11th June 9:30am - 3:15pm at Nexus Leeds
Join us for high profile external and internal talks about local and national data sets and the research they enable.
🔧 Turning GPS Security Trackers into Transport Insights
(And what it taught us about e-cargo bikes in the suburbs)
E-cargo bikes have big potential to cut car use—especially in suburbs. But to make smart infrastructure or policy decisions, we need to know: where do these bikes actually go?
(And what it taught us about e-cargo bikes in the suburbs)
E-cargo bikes have big potential to cut car use—especially in suburbs. But to make smart infrastructure or policy decisions, we need to know: where do these bikes actually go?
June 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🔧 Turning GPS Security Trackers into Transport Insights
(And what it taught us about e-cargo bikes in the suburbs)
E-cargo bikes have big potential to cut car use—especially in suburbs. But to make smart infrastructure or policy decisions, we need to know: where do these bikes actually go?
(And what it taught us about e-cargo bikes in the suburbs)
E-cargo bikes have big potential to cut car use—especially in suburbs. But to make smart infrastructure or policy decisions, we need to know: where do these bikes actually go?
🚀 Missed the event? Watch the recording now! 🌍🌦️
Hosted by our Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) community, this insightful and inspiring talk by David John Gagne II, Head of the MILES Group at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, is now available to view online!
Hosted by our Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) community, this insightful and inspiring talk by David John Gagne II, Head of the MILES Group at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, is now available to view online!
May 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🚀 Missed the event? Watch the recording now! 🌍🌦️
Hosted by our Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) community, this insightful and inspiring talk by David John Gagne II, Head of the MILES Group at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, is now available to view online!
Hosted by our Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) community, this insightful and inspiring talk by David John Gagne II, Head of the MILES Group at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, is now available to view online!
🌐🎗️ Leeds Cancer Data Day - 11th June 🎗️🌐
We're bringing together some of the greatest minds in cancer data from across the region.
This collaborative event brings together researchers, clinicians, data scientists, and policy makers to explore how data is transforming cancer care and research.
We're bringing together some of the greatest minds in cancer data from across the region.
This collaborative event brings together researchers, clinicians, data scientists, and policy makers to explore how data is transforming cancer care and research.
May 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🌐🎗️ Leeds Cancer Data Day - 11th June 🎗️🌐
We're bringing together some of the greatest minds in cancer data from across the region.
This collaborative event brings together researchers, clinicians, data scientists, and policy makers to explore how data is transforming cancer care and research.
We're bringing together some of the greatest minds in cancer data from across the region.
This collaborative event brings together researchers, clinicians, data scientists, and policy makers to explore how data is transforming cancer care and research.