Yesterday I attended my first ever hackathon, held at the Natural History Museum in London. What on earth is a hackathon? Well it's when a bunch of computer programmers and others collaborate intensively on software projects. This one was organised by the PREDICTS and Living Planet Index (LPI) projects to develop ways to make it easier to …
Category: Computing & statistics
Meta-what?
A perk of having a NERC funded studentship is priority attendance on the NERC Advanced training courses, and I was fortunate to gain a place on the Systematic review and meta-analysis for environmental sciences held at Royal Holloway University. Meta-analysis is a statistical technique used to combine results from different studies to identify patterns among studies, the strength …
Victoria J. Burton 