Category Archives: Project News
Decipher my Data, Flu! Final evaluation report
After two years, we have written an evaluation report to find out what worked and what didn’t work with “Decipher my Data: Flu!” The project wasn’t successful in terms of the number of schools involved or the amount of interactions. … Continue reading
Declan talks to the Guardian
I hope you’ve all picked up your (Internet) copy of the Guardian! This week Declan wrote an article for the Guardian’s Teacher Network, (a massive online source of news, events and jobs for teachers). He wrote about how the project, … Continue reading
Earlier, Simpler, Clearer – learning from 2011/12
When we launched last year we were impatient. We thought we had a short window of opportunity in which to get the project going. We thought we needed to have the project up and running as soon as possible before … Continue reading
We’ll be back next term!
On 1st September we’ll be launching Decipher My Data – Flu! for the 2012/13 flu season. Thank you to all the schools who entered data for the 2011/12 season. It was a strange winter, we saw less flu in England … Continue reading
Blink and you could have missed it
Research projects tend to go on for a long time, but to me at least, this one has gone in a flash. It only seems like yesterday when we began collecting data from schools, but in fact we actually collected … Continue reading
Different ways to run the flu! project
Teachers can decide for themselves how they want to use Decipher my data! Flu! in their school. We’ve put together some ideas from teachers we’ve been speaking to, on how they will be using the project. Students can also run … Continue reading
We’re in beta!
Flu is the first Decipher my data! project and we’ve been pulling out all the stops to get the site ready for collecting and deciphering school’s data. The site will be under constant development over the next few weeks and … Continue reading
What’s been deciphered so far?
Before launching the Flu project across the country we wanted to test our data collection process. One school kindly volunteered their illness absence data for the whole of last year, which is plotted in the graph. Here’s a quick explanation … Continue reading
The green light at end of the tunnel!
UCL’s ethics committee have now given Decipher My Data the green light for inviting schools to take part in the project. This is the result of 12 months of planning and preparation, including coming up with the project idea, finding … Continue reading
Hi! Katie here…
I’m the new Project Wrangler at Decipher My Data and on day-one, I’m already being shown the ropes behind the scenes of the project. I have recently graduated from Imperial College London with a BSc in Life Sciences and now … Continue reading
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Phase I – project launch
I’m not sure if it has been a sprint or a marathon, but finally we’re ready to launch I’m a Scientist, Decipher my Data! Flu! We started work on the project over a year ago and progress accelerated rapidly in … Continue reading
