The Insight Podcast
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Insight is one of the largest data science research centres in Europe. As such it has an incredible array of stories. It's about the science but it's also about the people as Gráinne Faller and Louise Holden find out.
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Apr 25, 2022
Minisode #10 Dr John McCrae
Dr John McCrae is head of the Unit for Natural Language Processing in NUI Galway. He tells Louise and Gráinne about the challenges and opportunities when working with data and minority languages.
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Apr 21, 2022
S2. Ep4. Language, art and a barge - it's culture baby!
Language, art and an eco barge feature in episode four as Louise and Gráinne talk to Dr John McCrae about his work at the helm of the Unit for Natural Language Processing in NUI Galway. They also talk to Dr Hilary Murray about her career at the interface between art and neuroscience. Finally they speak to artist Anne O'Leary about her Eco Showboat undertaking.
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Mar 21, 2022
Minisode #9: Dr Ankit Verma
With the increasing focus on renewable energy sources, and the urgency with which we need to move away from fossil fuels, the idea of solar prospecting is perhaps a less familiar concept than other practices in the area of sustainable energy. Louise and Gráinne spoke to Dr Ankit Verma last year about Insight's work in this field.
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Mar 1, 2022
Minisode #8 Niall O Brolcháin
Gráinne and Louise spoke to Niall O Brolcháin about his work on EU project Care Peat in a fascinating discussion that explored the value of our peatlands in the climate crisis.
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Feb 14, 2022
Minisode #7 Prof Barry Smyth
Professor Barry Smyth realised early on in the pandemic that readily available data could be used to tell us more about what was happening. He told Gráinne and Louise all about it.
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Feb 8, 2022
Minisode #6: Claudette Pretorius on youth mental health online
Dr Claudette Pretorius is a psychologist working in Insight@UCD. She talks to Louise and Gráinne about her research into how teens access mental health services online
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Jan 31, 2022
Minisode #5: Prof Andrew Parnell on Covid Modelling
The best explanation of Covid modelling that you'll ever find. The excellent Professor Andrew Parnell from Insight@Maynooth Uni spoke to Louise and Gráinne last year about his work
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Oct 12, 2021
S2. Ep3. Cathal's log, Stardate 2021
It's a jam packed episode this week with Professor Norma Bargary discussing how we make sense of vast quantities of data and the importance of putting people at the centre of research. Diarmuid Kennedy and Dr Cathal Gurrin talk about The Eternal Memory, a short film (watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8FGM4rq6pw) which explores Gurrin's life-logging journey in the most lovely and engaging way. Dr Begüm Genç talks about explanability in AI and constraint programming and discusses her work on the global Women in AI initiative.
As for the presenters, Louise has a cold, Gráinne's dog snores loudly in the background but the guests knock it out of the park. Enjoy!
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Sep 28, 2021
S2. Ep2. From Dublin to the Super Bowl
We don't normally do themed episodes but this is one exception. If you have ever been curious about the process of the commercialisation of research, this is the episode for you. Two fascinating interviews. One with CEO of Stimul.ai, Naomh McElhatton who is currently working to make technology that came out of research led by Professor Barry O'Sullivan into a global business, and the other with former Insight researcher Dr Martin O'Reilly who is CEO of Output Sports, another potential world leader. The stories are fascinating and they tell us what they wish they knew at the start of it all.
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Sep 14, 2021
S2. Ep1. Tears, tango and an Irish Mammy: The secrets of a successful PhD
Gráinne and Louise talk to Dr Ciara Duignan about Flourish, a student wellbeing module running in DCU and UCD. Is integrating wellbeing into higher level education the shape of things to come. Professor Alan Smeaton talks about the challenges of the blended campus, and the advent of the new normal and Dr Mehran Hossein Zadeh Bazargani tells us about his PhD journey.
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Jun 23, 2021
Minisode #4: Professor Griffith Rollefson
How can data science be applied to the study of hip hop music? Professor Griffith Rollefson explained all to Gráinne and Louise
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Jun 17, 2021
Minisode #3: Professor Máire Connolly
In the midst of one pandemic, some are already preparing for the next. Professor Máire Connolly spoke to Louise and Gráinne about her work with Professor Jim Duggan and others on Pandem 2, a huge collaborative project dealing with Europe's preparedness for future pandemics.
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Jun 15, 2021
Minisode #2: Dr Emer Doheny
Dr Emer Doheny spoke to Louise and Gráinne about Breathe into your Phone, a project that aims to help those hospitalised with Covid using the technology they already have in their hands.
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Jun 15, 2021
Minisode #1: Professor Madeleine Lowery
Gráinne and Louise talk to Professor Madeleine Lowery about her research at the frontier of the effort to combat devastating diseases like Huntington's and Parkinson's.
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Mar 16, 2021
Ep15. Happy Poddy's Day
This is the final episode of The Insight Podcast and it's a goodie. Louise and Gráinne talk to Professor Máire Connolly about her work with Professor Jim Duggan and others on Pandem 2, a huge collaborative project dealing with Europe's preparedness for future pandemics. After that, they speak to Lorin Sweeney about video memorability and then Dr Aonghus Lawlor discusses the Platform Research Initiative Medical Imaging.
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Mar 9, 2021
Ep14. Life on Mars
In this episode, Professor Kieran Moran talks about putting manners on the sport of hurling by standardising the sliotar. Dr Ankit Verma talks solar prospecting and how the geomorphology of craters could lend us an insight into life on other planets. Finally, Dr Ciara Duignan tells us about Flourish, a project that aims to harness data to better enable universities to support their students, and students to help themselves.
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Mar 2, 2021
Ep13. History repeating
This week Gráinne and Louise talk to Dr Georgiana Ifrim of Insight@UCD about her work with Prof Brian Caulfield's group and how healthcare services and authorities are beginning to do a better job of linking in with the research community.
Dr Stephen Behan of Insight@DCU tells us about Moving Well Being Well because the results are in and they are pretty exciting.
Finally we speak to the leaders of the Cultural Analytics Platform Research Initiative Prof Gerardine Meaney and Dr Derek Greene about how data analytics can lend an insight to the past, and how that in turn can shine a light on what's happening now.
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Feb 23, 2021
Ep12. Puzzles from Japan
In Episode 12 Louise and Gráinne talk to Dr Susan Leavy about her work on trustworthy AI. Dr Helmut Simonis talks Sudoku and constraint programming while Professor Simon Wilson discusses the Research Challenge of Scalability.
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Feb 16, 2021
Ep11. Shouldn't have called it a cruise.
On episode 11, we have Dr Margaret McCaul talking water quality and adventures in research. Dr Lukasz Porwol tells us about the EPE initiative, the virtual reality classroom. Finally, Professor James Gleeson and Professor Nial Friel explain the research challenge, Fundamentals of Data Science and tell us why they are, in a manner of speaking, kind of like plumbers.
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Feb 9, 2021
Ep10. "The past is unpredictable"
In this episode, Professor Andrew Parnell talks to Louise and Gráinne about his Covid 19 research. In that segment, we talk a lot about the Hamilton Institute's Covid Data Dive and some apps, all of which are available here. Insight@DCU PhD candidate Sarah Dillon speaks to us about the RISK study for recreational runners. Finally, in the latest of our research challenge segments, we speak to Professor Mathieu D'Aquin and Dr Mark Roantree who are leading the Data Engineering and Government challenge.
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Jan 26, 2021
Ep9. Hiveminds
Dr Andrew McCarren is collaborating on a project called UPCOM Understanding and Preventing COVID19 Outbreaks in Meat Processing Plants - Prepared for the Future which received SFI funding in its latest Covid 19 Research and Innovation funding round. He spoke to Gráinne and Louise about the project. Many people will know Alan O'Boyle as Insight's Finance Manager, but he also has a sideline as a beekeeper. We had to find out more. Finally we spoke to Dr Susan Leavy and Professor Barry O'Sullivan about the research challenge Trustworthy AI, Data and Society.
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Jan 19, 2021
Ep8. Data in a time of Covid
Gráinne and Louise talk to Barry Smyth about his analysis of current Covid data and what he thinks it tells us about where we stand. You can find his blog on the subject here. Also on the pod is Charmaine Cruz, a PhD student who is working on an EPA funded project called iHabiMap: habitat mapping, monitoring and assessment using high-resolution imagery and Alessandra Mileo and Ken Brown talk about their research challenge, Decision Making.
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Jan 12, 2021
Ep7. A breath of fresh air
Louise and Gráinne talk to Insight FI Aoife Morrin about air quality in homes during lockdown. UCD site manager and Brian Caulfield's desert island buddy of choice, Donnacha O'Driscoll talks about managing the challenges of the pandemic and using the moon as a doorway to engaging the public in science. And in the latest of the Research Challenge interviews, Suzanne Little and Paul Buitelaar discuss their ambitions for Multimodal Data Analysis.
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Jan 5, 2021
Ep6. For peat's sake
In episode six Louise and Gráinne talk to Niall Ó Brolcháin about the case for rewetting and farming Ireland's peatlands; Prof Eileen Gibney explains how data science can revolutionise food and nutrition research; Prof Tomás Ward and Prof Brian Caulfield talk about Insight's Sensing and Actuation research challenge while explaining why success will resemble a Christmas cake.
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Dec 15, 2020
Ep5. The umpire strikes back
In episode 5, Louise and Gráinne talk to Insight post-doc and international hockey umpire Dr Alison Keogh. They also chat to Ahmed Jouda who interned at Insight during the summer and who happened to have a story about mapping Lesotho. Finally, they catch up with Insight's Citizen Science project Crowd4Access to find out how it's going.
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Dec 8, 2020
Ep4. "We have to deal with kangaroos"
This week Louise and Gráinne catch up with Dr Suzanne Little who talks about her research into automated vehicles and the problems of unpredictable people; Long Pham discusses her journalism career and how it relates to her current role, while Professor Brian Caulfied discusses Covid's impact on his site at UCD and which Insight member he would bring to a desert island.
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Dec 2, 2020
Ep3. Hip hop, psychology, iconography
Gráinne and Louise catch up with Professor Griffith Rollefson to find out why a musicologist is getting involved in data science. Psychologist Claudette Pretorious talks about her research into how teens access mental health services online, and Professor Mathieu D'Aquin talks Insight@NUI Galway, and the role data science can play in disciplines such as music and iconography .
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Nov 24, 2020
Ep2. "It's like pace-making for the brain"
Gráinne and Louise talk to Professor Madeleine Lowery about her research at the frontier of the effort to combat devastating diseases like Huntington's and Parkinson's; Professor Alan Smeaton talks Zoom fatigue and Professor Barry O'Sullivan discusses policy influence as researcher and his plans for Insight 2.
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Nov 18, 2020
Ep1. Colour the past and breathe
Gráinne and Louise talk Old Ireland in Colour with Prof John Breslin, cutting edge Covid research with Dr Emer Doheny and Insight ambitions with Prof Noel O'Connor.
A Snoring Dog production made by FH Media Consulting for the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics.
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Jun 9, 2020
Pilot Minisode: From data ethics to Douglas Adams: Noel O'Connor answers your questions
How does Noel O'Connor like his eggs? What are his secret ambitions? You asked, he answered. Enjoy this special minisode!
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May 26, 2020
Pilot: In conversation with the CEO: Professor Noel O'Connor
Professor Noel O'Connor talks to Gráinne Faller and Louise Holden about taking on the role of CEO of Insight.
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