The Insight Podcast
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.
Episodes
31 episodes
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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Season 2
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11:27
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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33:15
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. L...
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Season 2
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8:23
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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Season 2
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10:45
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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Season 2
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14:22
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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Season 2
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9:27
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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Season 2
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11:53
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 Eterna...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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34:59
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 McEl...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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32:48
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 o...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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32:17
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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Season 1
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Episode 19
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10:03
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 prep...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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14:09
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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Season 1
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Episode 17
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7:45
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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Season 1
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Episode 16
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10:37
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 prepared...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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33:51
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 pl...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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31:23
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. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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32:16
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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Season 1
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Episode 12
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30:05
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 expla...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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32:50
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
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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33:04
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 r...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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29:09
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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31:18
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 usi...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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31:59
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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31:20
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, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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30:10