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Smart data stories

Smart data stories

Latest Case Studies ordered by publication date

Can smart data help us spot cold homes?

Category: Fellowship

An SDR UK Fellowship using smart data to understand cold homes and their potential health impacts.

Who is our transport system really built for?

Category: Fellowship

An SDR UK Fellowship using smart data to to map how people travel, and where transport lets them down.

What can a neighbourhood tell us about growing older?

Category: Fellowship

An SDR UK Fellowship using smart data to predict the health and care needs of older people.

Can we tell the difference between investing and gambling?

Category: Fellowship

An SDR UK Fellowship using smart data to reveal how everyday trading can tip into gambling, and who is most at risk

Shopping data insights for environment

Category: Accelerator

A new approach combines supermarket data with environmental metrics to show the environmental impact of what people buy.

Data informs Scotland’s path to net zero

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have used data from our Financial Data Service to look at retrofit costs.

Smart data and political research

Category: Accelerator

University of Manchester researchers are investigating how to safely link social media data with political survey data.

Shopping data and cancer research

Shopping data and cancer research

Category: Health and wellbeing

Health researchers from Imperial College London, UCL and the University of Birmingham examine loyalty card data.

Pop goes data: the economics of Eurovision

How University of Liverpool researchers used Mastercard data to assess the economic impact of a major music event.

Mapping the modern economy

Category: Accelerator

A team from the University of Bristol, supported by SDR UK, is developing new tools to track modern businesses.

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