Institute for Analytics and Data Science

🚨 Exciting course announcement for the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis 2025! 🚨

“Analysing Multimodal Language Data for Quantitative Social Science”

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Analysing Multimodal Language Data for Quantitative Social Science

Unlock the potential of audio, video and text in your research with cutting-edge tools for transcription, speech recognition and optical character recognition (OCR).

In this course, you'll gain theoretical insights and hands-on experience with automatic transcription, video annotation and data analysis techniques. By the end, you'll be equipped to design methodologies for multimodal data analysis and visualise your findings using state-of-the-art technologies.

What you’ll learn:

- Foundations of language models, speech recognition and OCR
- Data analysis methodologies for audio, video and text
- How to prepare and analyse multimodal data
- Visualisation of complex data insights

Find out more & apply: https://essexsummerschool.com/summer-school-facts/courses/ess-2025-course-list/2r/

AI Experts Warn: Electricity Costs May Stunt Growth ⚡

Last week, Dr. Haider Raza, a former IADS Research Fellow, spoke to BBC News about the region’s growing role in AI innovation. With the vision for Europe’s Silicon Valley between Oxford and Cambridge and Nscale’s £2bn investment in a data centre in Loughton, there’s huge potential for growth. Dr Raza highlighted the exciting opportunities ahead but emphasised that sustainable energy is key to ensuring AI can thrive.

With AI development accelerating, investment in long-term renewable energy is crucial to power data centres efficiently and ensure innovation thrives. A sustainable AI future starts with smart energy choices! 🌍⚡

Cambridge and Essex AI growth could be slowed by electricity cost The East of England is at the forefront of the government's plans for artificial intelligence use.

Inspirational Essex graduates Mark Plotyczer and Elton Sbruzzi have been named as finalists in Study UK - British Council Alumni Awards in Brazil.

Mark is a finalist in the Creativity and Culture category thanks to his dedication to bridging the gap between sports and education. Elton has been named a finalist in the Business and Innovation category for his pioneering contributions to Data Science and Artificial Intelligence education.

https://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2025/02/20/two-essex-graduates-chosen-as-finalists-for-brazil%E2%80%99s-study-uk-alumni-awards

IADS Team Meeting – Exploring Data Science in Business

In this month's IADS team meeting, we had the pleasure of hearing from our new Deputy Director, Dr Marta F. Arroyabe, who gave an insightful presentation on a Data Science perspective in business.

She covered key topics, including:
📊 Data methodologies used in business research
🔗 Bridging business research with data science
📈 Understanding econometrics in business research
💡 Why data science matters for business and management

Looking forward to more knowledge-sharing sessions like this!