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Segmed's De-Identified, Real-World Imaging Data is Part of Bayer’s AI Innovation Platform

🎉 Exciting to see #BayerInRadiology Bayer | Pharmaceuticals launching #Centafore Imaging Core Lab — a major leap forward for imaging-driven clinical research and AI innovation in radiology! We’re proud that Segmed’s de-identified, real-world imaging data is part of Bayer’s AI Innovation Platform, helping accelerate the development and validation of AI solutions for healthcare. Together with Bayer, we’re shaping a future where data-driven, patient-centric innovation powers smarter diagnostics and better outcomes.

Congratulations to the Bayer team on this impactful initiative — we’re thrilled to be on this journey with you! 🚀

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VADY Humanizes AI for Businesses

VADY NewFangled AI believes AI should empower people, not replace them. With context-aware AI analytics, businesses can balance automation with human intelligence, making AI-driven insights more intuitive, relevant, and impactful.

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Facing Water Scarcity with the Power of Data

On World Water Day, we thought we would celebrate the ground breaking ways that South Africans are using data for sustainable water management. Here’s how they are making a splash: Reliable Data, Reliable Decisions: Time-series data and standardized updates ensure accurate information to track trends and measure progress towards water sustainability in cities. This data becomes the foundation…

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The Climate Action Navigator: Empowering Cities to Build a Sustainable Future

By 2050, nearly 70% of the world’s population will live in cities, making urban areas crucial battlegrounds in the fight against climate change. The Climate Action Navigator (CAN), developed by the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT), is a groundbreaking interactive tool designed to help cities, NGOs, and community groups identify where climate action is most needed.

How CAN contributes to sustainability:

🔹Data-driven insights: CAN uses open geodata sources like OpenStreetMap, remote sensing, and census data to analyze neighborhoods across multiple dimensions—active mobility (walking and cycling), heating emissions, and land use.

🔹Neighborhood-level focus: Like an energy efficiency rating for buildings, CAN rates entire neighborhoods, highlighting hotspots where infrastructure improvements can reduce emissions and improve livability.

🔹Supports targeted action: Cities can identify where to enhance bike lanes, improve pedestrian infrastructure, retrofit heating systems, and manage land consumption to maximize climate benefits.

🔹Locally adaptable and inclusive: CAN is designed for co-creation with local stakeholders, combining technical expertise with community knowledge to ensure practical, context-specific solutions.

🔹Global applicability: While developed in Germany, CAN’s open data foundation allows adaptation worldwide, from European cities to rapidly growing urban areas in Africa and beyond.

Why does it matter?

Smart, evidence-based urban planning is essential to reduce carbon footprints, improve public health, and create resilient, livable cities. CAN empowers decision-makers with the tools to turn climate goals into concrete actions.

“To build climate-resilient cities, we need shared perspectives, reliable data, and real-world experience,” says Kirsten von Elverfeldt, Community Engagement Manager at HeiGIT.

#SustainableCities #ClimateAction #UrbanPlanning #ActiveMobility #DataForGood #ClimateResilience

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[ Hablar español is beautiful 😍] Cette semaine, la page d'accueil de Clover ia a enregistré des connexions dans plus de 89 pays 🥳🌍 Nous profitons de cette nouvelle pour annoncer la traduction [#beta] de cette dernière en espagnol, anglais et polonais, sur trois sous-domaines distincts 🎉 :

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https://en.cloveria.fr

https://pl.cloveria.fr

Cette structure va nous permettre, à terme, de poursuivre notre stratégie #GotoMarket vers les principaux états membres de l'Union Européenne 🇪🇺 Très prochainement suivront : le suédois, l'allemand et l'italien 🤫

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A good read, Factfulness: Ten reasons we’re wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think. An excerpt from the book, page 237, lists ‘Global Pandemic’ as one of the five global risks. So much from the author, Hans Rosling, visualization pioneer who made data dance and famous for bubble charts. #reading #perspective #dataforgood (at Bangalore, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXAQu7HlJY/?igshid=wyyq610wwaya

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At Segmed, we’re passionate about empowering healthcare AI innovation through access to high-quality, diverse, and de-identified medical imaging data. As the industry continues to evolve, conversations around responsible AI development, data standardization, and global data diversity are more important than ever. The SIIM conference is the perfect forum to connect with leaders in imaging informatics, AI, and healthcare data. Gaurav will be there to discuss how Segmed is helping AI developers and researchers accelerate their work with scalable, compliant, and richly annotated imaging datasets. If you’ll be at SIIM, let’s connect! 🤝 Schedule a meeting with Gaurav at https://lnkd.in/dqSpsYWr or reach out — we’d love to explore how we can support your AI initiatives.

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Mountain Hub Announces Data For Good Initiative

We are excited to share that one of our partners, Mountain Hub, just announced a major update to their free (yes, free) community-fueled adventure sharing app. In addition to being able to record your outdoor adventures with GPS tracking, discover relevant trail conditions, and find your way both on and off-grid with a powerful toolbox of comprehensive maps, you will now be able to effortlessly give back as you get outside. Meet #DataForGood, a new initiative that gives back by sharing public data with wildland conservation groups, avalanche centers, and research scientists.

Want to learn more?

Visit their Data for Good blog to see a full update and click to download.

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16 July 2021

Food for thought

At last week's Data Bites, I noted how 'Wales' is a standard unit of area. This week, along comes a map which shows that all the built-up land in the UK is equivalent to one Wales:

The map is from the National Food Strategy, published yesterday (and the man has a point).

It has divided opinion, judging by the responses to this tweet. I understand where the sceptics are coming from - at first glance, it may be confusing, given Wales isn't actually entirely built up, Cornwall made of peat, or Shetland that close to the mainland (or home to all the UK's golf courses). And I'm often critical of people using maps just because the data is geographical in some way, when a different, non-map visualisation would be better.

But I actually think this one works. Using a familiar geography to represent areas given over to particular land use might help us grasp it more readily (urban areas = size of Wales, beef and lamb pastures = more of the country than anything else). It's also clear that a huge amount of overseas land is needed to feed the UK, too.

The map has grabbed people's attention and got them talking, which is no bad thing. And it tells the main stories I suspect its creators wanted to. In other words, it's made those messages... land.

Trash talk

Happy Take Out The Trash Day!

Yesterday saw A LOT of things published by Cabinet Office - data on special advisers, correspondence with parliamentarians, public bodies and major projects to name but a few, and the small matter of the new plans outlining departmental priorities and how their performance will be measured.

It's great that government is publishing this stuff. It's less great that too much of it still involves data being published in PDFs not spreadsheets. And it's even less great that the ignoble tradition of Take Out The Trash Day continues, for all the reasons here (written yesterday) and here (written in 2017).

I know this isn't (necessarily) deliberate, and it's a lot of good people working very hard to get things finished before the summer (as my 2017 piece acknowledges). And it's good to see government being transparent.

But it's 2021, for crying out loud. The data collection should be easier. The use of this data in government should be more widespread to begin with.

We should expect better.

In other news:

I was really pleased to have helped the excellent team at Transparency International UK (by way of some comments on a draft) with their new report exploring access and influence in UK housing policy, House of Cards. Read it here.

One of our recent Data Bites speakers, Doug Gurr, is apparently in the running to run the NHS. More here.

Any excuse to plug my Audrey Tang interview.

The good folk at ODI Leeds/The Data City/the ODI have picked up and run with my (and others') attempt to map the UK government data ecosystem. Do help them out.

Five years ago this week...

Regarding last week's headline of Three Lines on a Chart: obviously I was going to.

Have a great weekend

Gavin

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Vax populi

Why vaccine-shy French are suddenly rushing to get jabbed* (The Economist)

Morning update on Macron demolishing French anti-vax feeling (or at least vax-hesitant) (Sophie Pedder via Nicolas Berrod)

How Emmanuel Macron’s “health passes” have led to a surge in vaccine bookings in France* (New Statesman)

How effective are coronavirus vaccines against the Delta variant?* (FT)

England faces the sternest test of its vaccination strategy* (The Economist)

Where Are The Newest COVID Hot Spots? Mostly Places With Low Vaccination Rates (NPR)

There's A Stark Red-Blue Divide When It Comes To States' Vaccination Rates (NPR)

All talk, no jabs: the reality of global vaccine diplomacy* (Telegraph)

Vaccination burnout? (Reuters)

Viral content

COVID-19: Will the data allow the government to lift restrictions on 19 July? (Sky News)

UK Covid-19 rates are the highest of any European country after Cyprus* (New Statesman)

COVID-19: Cautionary tale from the Netherlands' coronavirus unlocking - what lessons can the UK learn? (Sky News)

‘Inadequate’: Covid breaches on the rise in Australia’s hotel quarantine (The Guardian)

Side effects

COVID-19: Why is there a surge in winter viruses at the moment? (Sky News)

London Beats New York Back to Office, by a Latte* (Bloomberg)

Outdoor dining reopened restaurants for all — but added to barriers for disabled* (Washington Post)

NYC Needs the Commuting Crowds That Have Yet to Fully Return* (Bloomberg)

Politics and government

Who will succeed Angela Merkel?* (The Economist)

Special advisers in government (Tim for IfG)

How stingy are the UK’s benefits? (Jamie Thunder)

A decade of change for children's services funding (Pro Bono Economics)

National Food Strategy (independent review for UK Government)

National Food Strategy: Tax sugar and salt and prescribe veg, report says (BBC News)

Air, space

Can Wizz challenge Ryanair as king of Europe’s skies?* (FT)

Air passengers have become much more confrontational during the pandemic* (The Economist)

Branson and Bezos in space: how their rocket ships compare* (FT)

Sport

Euro 2020: England expects — the long road back to a Wembley final* (FT)

Most football fans – and most voters – support the England team taking the knee* (New Statesman)

Domestic violence surges after a football match ends* (The Economist)

The Most Valuable Soccer Player In America Is A Goalkeeper (FiveThirtyEight)

Sport is still rife with doping* (The Economist)

Wimbledon wild card success does not disguise financial challenge* (FT)

Can The U.S. Women’s Swim Team Make A Gold Medal Sweep? (FiveThirtyEight)

Everything else

Smoking: How large of a global problem is it? And how can we make progress against it? (Our World in Data)

Record June heat in North America and Europe linked to climate change* (FT)

Here’s a list of open, non-code tools that I use for #dataviz, #dataforgood, charity data, maps, infographics... (Lisa Hornung)

Meta data

Identity crisis

A single sign-on and digital identity solution for government (GDS)

UK government set to unveil next steps in digital identity market plan (Computer Weekly)

BCS calls for social media platforms to verify users to curb abuse (IT Pro)

ID verification for social media as a solution to online abuse is a terrible idea (diginomica)

Who is behind the online abuse of black England players and how can we stop it?* (New Statesman)

Euro 2020: Why abuse remains rife on social media (BBC News)

UK government

Online Media Literacy Strategy (DCMS)

Privacy enhancing technologies: Adoption guide (CDEI)

The Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset is now available in the ONS Secure Research Service (ADR UK)

Our Home Office 2024 DDaT Strategy is published (Home Office)

The UK’s Digital Regulation Plan makes few concrete commitments (Tech Monitor)

OSR statement on data transparency and the role of Heads of Profession for Statistics (Office for Statistics Regulation)

Good data from any source can help us report on the global goals to the UN (ONS)

The state of the UK’s statistical system 2020/21 (Office for Statistics Regulation)

Far from average: How COVID-19 has impacted the Average Weekly Earnings data (ONS)

Health

Shock treatment: can the pandemic turn the NHS digital? (E&T)

Can Vaccine Passports Actually Work? (Slate)

UK supercomputer Cambridge-1 to hunt for medical breakthroughs (The Guardian)

AI got 'rithm

An Applied Research Agenda for Data Governance for AI (GPAI)

Taoiseach and Minister Troy launch Government Roadmap for AI in Ireland (Irish Government)

Tech

“I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Go Back”: Return-to-Office Agita Is Sweeping Silicon Valley (Vanity Fair)

Google boss Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom (BBC News)

The class of 2021: Welcome to POLITICO’s annual ranking of the 28 power players behind Europe’s tech revolution (Politico)

Inside Facebook’s Data Wars* (New York Times)

Concern trolls and power grabs: Inside Big Tech’s angry, geeky, often petty war for your privacy (Protocol)

Exclusive extract: how Facebook's engineers spied on women* (Telegraph)

Face off

Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet? (The Observer)

#Identity, #OnlineSafety & #AgeVerification – notes on “Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?” (Alec Muffett)

Europe makes the case to ban biometric surveillance* (Wired)

Open government

From open data to joined-up government: driving efficiency with BA Obras (Open Contracting Partnership)

AVAILABLE NOW! DEMOCRACY IN A PANDEMIC: PARTICIPATION IN RESPONSE TO CRISIS (Involve)

Designing digital services for equitable access (Brookings)

Data

Trusting the Data: How do we reach a public settlement on the future of tech? (Demos)

"Why do we use R rather than Excel?" (Terence Eden)

Everything else

The world’s biggest ransomware gang just disappeared from the internet (MIT Technology Review)

Our Statistical Excellence Awards Ceremony has just kicked off! (Royal Statistical Society)

Pin resets wipe all data from over 100 Treasury mobile phones (The Guardian)

Data officers raid two properties over Matt Hancock CCTV footage leak (The Guardian)

How did my phone number end up for sale on a US database? (BBC News)

Gendered disinformation: 6 reasons why liberal democracies need to respond to this threat (Demos, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung)

Opportunities

EVENT: Justice data in the digital age: Balancing risks and opportunities (The LEF)

JOBS: Senior Data Strategy - Data Innovation & Business Analysis Hub (MoJ)

JOB: Director of Evidence and Analytics (Natural England)

JOB: Policy and Research Associate (Open Ownership)

JOB: Research Officer in Data Science (LSE Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science)

JOB: Chief operating officer (Democracy Club, via Jukesie)

And finally...

me: can’t believe we didn’t date sooner... (@MNateShyamalan)

Are you closer to Georgia, or to Georgia? (@incunabula)

A masterpiece in FOIA (Chris Cook)

How K-Pop conquered the universe* (Washington Post)

Does everything really cost more? Find out with our inflation quiz.* (Washington Post)

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