Daniel Sprague

I am Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Spectra Analytics, an AI research and consultancy firm. I have a PhD in Complexity Science from Warwick University

[Patchs Health @PatchsHealth]

Looking for your next challenge?
Want to help everyone realise the benefits of AI?
We are looking for an experienced data engineer to join our team. Find out more and apply here: https://t.co/GoFoXaRAHc
#dataengineer #dataengineering

[Patchs Health @PatchsHealth]

PATCHS online consultation makes it easy for GP practices to offer total digital triage during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Watch the demo: https://t.co/G9KgHeOUZK

@advanced are offering it free until 31/03/21.

PATCHS is funded by @innovateuk and supported by @OfficialUoM

[Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski]

I'm seeing more and more suggestions that contact tracing and/or physical distancing isn't needed and we could solve COVID-19 with widespread testing alone. E.g. just test everyone once a week/fortnight to get R<1. Sounds straightforward? Unfortunately not... 1/

[Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski]

If you're in UK, now is good time to sign up for https://t.co/NG6rBbU3UE, which was set up during 2009 flu pandemic to track community illness. It's easy to fill out each week, and provides valuable data on milder infections. Here are some insights it's previously produced... 1/

[Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski]

I am deeply uncomfortable with the message that UK is actively pursuing ‘herd immunity’ as the main COVID-19 strategy. Our group’s scenario modelling has focused on reducing two main things: peak healthcare demand and deaths... 1/

[Daniel Sprague @sprague_daniel]

This report is really interesting and describes the evidence behind the UK government's approach. @AdamJKucharski has been great at explaining it too

[Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski]

And here is SPI-M report on pandemic planning that describes evidence base for many measures, including school closures, airport screening, travel restrictions, social distancing (note these are for flu, so are now being updated for COVID-19) https://t.co/n7auTp0cxN 10/10

[Daniel Sprague @sprague_daniel]

@QuentinCAUDRON This but IoT ;)

[Daniel Sprague @sprague_daniel]

@QuentinCAUDRON What I learned from my days at the met office: rain is difficult

[Patchs Health @PatchsHealth]

We're hiring for a Junior Data Engineer. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with our brilliant Data Architecture and Engineering team, and enter the world of AI. Apply here https://t.co/1U5DYi5MUk
#dataengineer #dataarchitecture #ai

[Daniel Sprague @sprague_daniel]

@kareem_carr I knew a guy who believed library functions were a moral weakness. I once saw him write his own mean function in matlab as part of simulation code. Spent most of his time debugging...

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

It’s only called deep learning if it comes from the Dieppe-Lerne region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling logistic regression.

[Sinead Williamson @sineadwilliamso]

My husband is traveling with me to a conference and we’ve been thinking of fake AI subfields for him to claim to be working on. Favorites so far:

- Disentangled HairNets
- Deep Distraction Networks
- Misrepresentation Learning

Got any other good suggestions for him?

[Patchs Health @PatchsHealth]

Are you a UX and Vue Developer?
Want to use AI to solve the world's problems?
Spectra Analytics is hiring a frontend developer to join its rapidly growing team.
If this exciting job is for you or someone you know please apply or share
#ai #UX #vue
https://t.co/q9ynZqSnbU

[Daniel Sprague @sprague_daniel]

@kareem_carr I call myself a data scientist, so... masochism I guess! But as others have said it's really the interesting stats insights mixed with the brilliant memes

[Patchs Health @PatchsHealth]

Spectra are 5 years old!
This has been a fantastic journey as we help industry prepare for AI.
Thank you to all our clients, partners, friends and families for supporting us over the years. We are really excited to work with you to make the next 5 years even better!

[Ben Brown @BenjaminCBrown]

QUAL RESEARCHER JOB OPPORTUNITY. On an exciting project using AI in primary care. Plus you get to spend time with me. What's not to like? Tell all your friends! @nielspeek @khcheck @Bowercpcman @HeRC_Tweets @PrimaryCareMcr @PSTRC_GM https://t.co/1nJ30XhEuA

[Patchs Health @PatchsHealth]

Our ceo @MarcusAOng66 speaks to @Cervusdefence about AI in defence. Watch the video here

[Patchs Health @PatchsHealth]

1/2 Great interview with our recent PhD Data Science intern Bhavan Chahal. She discusses the fantastic work she did at Spectra and her experience of working in industry. If you're interested in life in a #datascience / #ai firm it's definitely worth a watch. #phd #internships

[Cecile Janssens @cecilejanssens]

Why it is so hard to predict complex diseases and traits from DNA? Here is a collection of my go-to slides, a short story about the predictive ability of polygenic risk scores (PRS).

[Patchs Health @PatchsHealth]

Delighted to announce we have won a £1m award from @innovateuk to develop and trial PATCHS, an AI triage tool for primary care, with @OfficialUoM & @SalfordCCG. https://t.co/A5KARTpgKk @HercTweets @BenjaminCBrown @NielsPeek #digitalhealth #primarycare #artificialintelligence