Dan Paul Smith

Lead Data Scientist @benevolent_ai. Specialising in tooling, visualisation, interface design and UX. Ex CASA, UCL and QMUL.

[Dan Paul Smith @danpaulsmith]

New blog examining the benefits of expert-augmented workflows in empowering scientific discovery here at @benevolent_ai: drawing on a case study of how we successfully uncovered a drug combination hypothesis for a rare childhood brain cancer. Read more:
https://t.co/C7C0aaqnEz

[Dan Paul Smith @danpaulsmith]

And came back with 3 national records too. Cheers cuz 🥰

[Rach @gotacommonname]

3 yrs ago, my cousin, who’d never free dived b4, gave it a go. Working FT, he became a digital nomad to travel & learn from more experienced divers every day b4 & after work. This week, he represents GB at the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP in Turkey. I’m so proud I could burst. GO TEAM! 🙌🏽

[BenevolentAI @benevolent_ai]

#Dengue is one of @WHO’s top 10 threats to global public health. Despite an estimated 390M annual infections, no effective treatment is available. We are proud to be working with @DNDi to address this urgent unmet need.

More in @biospace: #AIDrugDiscovery https://t.co/axziFKkcT2

[Dan Paul Smith @danpaulsmith]

@AskNationwide hi Diane. That email address does not work either.

[Dan Paul Smith @danpaulsmith]

@AskNationwide Hi. Your website instructed me to email [email protected] regarding a matter. Unfortunately, the email fails to be delivered, with the response from the Mail Delivery System: "Recipient address rejected: Access denied".

[Dan Paul Smith @danpaulsmith]

@AskNationwide Correct

[Dan Paul Smith @danpaulsmith]

@VirginAtlantic What's worrying about all of this, is that every day I wait on hold and fail to speak to anyone, the chances are my flight price will increase, or the places will fill up, slowly eroding my chances of getting a flight home

[Dan Paul Smith @danpaulsmith]

@VirginAtlantic on hold for 2:30hrs yesterday and today trying to rebook a flight. Your chat bot has also been too busy to help. The new flight is the same cost, and the flight is available, which is making this frustrating

[Dan Paul Smith @danpaulsmith]

@VirginAtlantic 2:34 hrs on hold, and the line has hung up on me.

[Dan Paul Smith @danpaulsmith]

@VirginAtlantic For the record, your response was "we cannot help on social media, please stay on hold", and now I'm back in the bot queue

[Dan Paul Smith @danpaulsmith]

@VirginAtlantic Hi Martin, your Twitter DM bot has discarded my message. Any chance you could reassign somebody?

[BenevolentAI @benevolent_ai]

We are excited to announce a joint research project with the @DNDi. The project will use our AI-enhanced approach to accelerate life-saving drug discovery research in #dengue - one of WHO’s top 10 threats to public health. #BecauseItMatters

Learn more: https://t.co/rT3OhPLcsm

[Linda J. Skitka @LindaSkitka]

I think this is the strongest example of an interaction based on real data I've ever seen. It's also more evidence that if they become politicized, not even superordinate threats can bring Americans together (see also, climate change).

[Jan Willem Tulp @JanWillemTulp]

I have always been considering meaning as an important part of my #dataviz designs, but I only just discovered that this is called Propositional Density.

I guess I should have kept a closer look to @moritz_stefaner's blog, as he wrote about it in 2010! https://t.co/h1j4Bp6l6E

[BenevolentAI @benevolent_ai]

Lead Data Scientist @danpaulsmith, spoke to @NatureSynthesis about how we used visual analytics to find a COVID treatment in 2020; “Our scientists are able to form and answer complex questions, by traversing our knowledge graph to find things of interest” https://t.co/j2JoFTHO0f

[Joanna Shields @joannashields]

Proud to share this news: as the Omicron variant renders many treatments ineffective, the WHO issued new guidelines recommending baricitinib to treat #COVID19. This highlights the benefits of baricitinib & of @benevolent_ai's AI-driven approach.
https://t.co/EaMEibA9cU

[The ICR @ICR_London]

Last week, we shared news of a study that used #AI to identify a new drug combination for #DIPG. Here, ICR Postdoctoral Training Fellow @diana_mcarvalho, first author on the paper, talks through the findings🔽

#CCAM #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth @royalmarsdenNHS @benevolent_ai

[Dan Paul Smith @danpaulsmith]

Pleased to share the details of one of our visual analytics and HCI-centred drug discovery workflows that led to our discovery of a COVID treatment last year 🙌

[BenevolentAI @benevolent_ai]

New research in @FrontPharmacol about our visual analytics approach to drug discovery, using interactive computational tools in multiple iterations to discover a now clinically validated treatment hypothesis.  
https://t.co/hPb5K89yWY #COVID19 #Baricitinib #AIDrugDiscovery

[BenevolentAI @benevolent_ai]

#COVID19 Research Update:

Recent data from @LillyPad's #COVID19 study showed ventilated patients who received baricitinib plus standard of care were 46% less likely to die than patients who received placebo plus standard of care.
https://t.co/0M9dv3h6LU