Data Study Groups

What are Data Study Groups?

• Intensive 'collaborative hackathons' which bring together organisations from industry, government, and the third sector, with talented multi-disciplinary researchers from academia (format is currently different due to COVID-19)
• Organisations act as Data Study Group 'Challenge Owners', providing real-world problems to be tackled by small groups of highly talented, carefully selected researchers
• Researchers brainstorm and engineer data science solutions, presenting their work at the end of the week

"Team up with a collaborative community of motivated data science experts, to jointly create a pathway to follow-up research and translational activities"

Sebastian Vollmer, Creator of the Turing Data Study Groups

Why does the Turing run them?

• Challenge Owners get to quickly prototype possible solutions to their data science challenges
• Researchers get an opportunity to put knowledge into practice and go beyond individual fields of research to solve real world problems
• To help initiate industry collaborations for the Institute; the ideas generated can be a seed for kick-starting larger collaborative research projects
• To help with the aims of the Institute:
  • Applying data science to real world problems
  • Training the next generation
  • Innovating and developing world-class research in data science

I am from an organisation interested in posing a challenge

I am a researcher interested in being a participant

Proud winner of The KE Awards 2021 for Academic Engagement of the Year