The Lai Lab is delighted to welcome Ria and Zeinab who will be pursuing data science projects under Alvina’s mentorship. Ria is a Chemistry undergraduate at Imperial College London. In her free time, she enjoys water polo and swimming. Zeinab is a Biochemistry undergraduate at King’s College London. She enjoys volunteering and is passionate about genetics. As part of the ‘induction’ process, we will be playing the skribbl.io game. Thank you, Yen Yi, for the recommendation ..read more

Working with the Access and Widening Participation Office at UCL, we are delighted to organise and deliver a 3-week intensive One Data Science programme aimed at A-level students. Students who want to learn more about Data Science do not always have the opportunity to do so. Our activities are designed to increase the aspirations of students, particularly those from underrepresented communities, to pursue tertiary education in data or computer science. Students get to have hands-on experience with data wrangling, visualisation and basic statistics without having to install or configure any dat ..read more

We asked students attending our One Data Science Programme to look for articles and identify words that are related to data science. Here’s what they found ..read more

We developed a 3-week One Data Science programme for A-level students to gain hands-on experience with coding. At the start of the programme, we asked them to think about a few words to describe Data Science. Here’s what they said ..read more

Confession time - I had too much fun with this bizarre multilingual video featuring my favourite character, Luisa Madrigal, from the movie Encanto. I related to the song “Surface Pressure” a little too much. So, I had to ‘sing’ it in 5 languages! I tried my best, but I’m no singer… Languages are so hard… I speak Cantonese at home every day, but this is the first time I’m speaking the language on a public platform and boy, was it strange. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the video ..read more

That is what Sang Woo said in the final round of Squid Game. But fear not. This isn’t the Squid Game, but an equally nerve-racking I Spy game. Just kidding! I Spy is a lot of fun and is nothing like the Squid Game. I’m very proud of Nanaki for hosting the games so successfully. We had a fun time planning behind the scenes. Her photography skills are amazing, don’t you think? It’s been a fantastic couple of days, but all good things must come to an end. Today is our last game. Thank you UCL ChangeMakers for funding this project ..read more

We are looking for five PhD students to get involved in an innovative Widening Participation project to provide prospective A-Level students from across the UK with greater insight into UCL’s degree programmes related to data science and computer science. You will help organise and run three 2-hour virtual ‘One Data Science’ events for A-Level students, which will be run over 3 weeks in July 2022, hosted by the UCL Institute of Health Informatics. You will have the opportunity to engage with A-Level students from underserved and underrepresented groups to inspire them to pursue higher educatio ..read more

Apply for our 3-week One Data Science programme! Programme Details: Week 1 – Introduction to data science and programming Week 2 – Getting started with a data science project Week 3 – Introduction to basic statistics Apply by Wednesday 8 June 2022 ..read more

I was surprised to find out that I was nominated for a Women in Tech Excellence Award in the Innovator of the Year category for creating Zero to Data Science. It’s interesting to see that I’m the only academic selected as a finalist for the Innovator of the Year Award. Thank you to the person who took the time to submit a nomination. I’m glad that Zero to Data Science has made an impact and thank you to those who supported the channel ..read more

Here’s the link to the GitHub repo for codes used in our latest Lancet Healthy Longevity paper. Super proud of PhD student, Yen Yi Tan, for leading this project to completion ..read more