Healthy Homes, Happy Lives: The real world impact of data
October Webinar Wednesday: The Homes for Healthy Ageing programme, spearheaded by Connected Places Catapult in partnership with Sunderland City Council, addresses the critical issues faced by the UK's ageing population: social isolation and the health risks of cold, damp homes.
A startling 1.4 million older adults suffer from loneliness, and a significant number of excess winter deaths are attributed to inadequate housing conditions. This initiative provided a low-risk, real-world setting to develop and refine Bays Homes. This data science solution predicts cold and damp homes at address-level data to generate precise predictions, visualised as heat maps. The detailed results can be scrutinised, enabling prioritised interventions in homes, supporting both achieving a healthy home as well as moving towards net zero targets.
Speaker Name: Dr Sophie Carr
Sophie is the founder of Bays Consulting - an analytics company that is building a better future using maths not magic. In May, Bays Consulting won Analytics Company of the Year at the fourth edition of the British Data Awards
Sophie's first love was Lego, then aeroplanes and her career followed suit.
She trained as an engineer and whilst working full time took a PhD in Bayesin Belief Networks and has worked in data analytics ever since. Or to put it another way, Sophie has made a living out of finding patterns. Outside of work, Sophie is the Vice President for education and statistical literacy at the Royal Statistical Society, an elected member of IMA Council and the World's Most Interesting Mathematician.
Registration
Registration begins 02/09/2024