Today, Thursday 5 May, is being celebrated worldwide as the International Day of the Midwife, organised by the International Confederation of Midwives.
The White Ribbon Alliance ran a campaign called Midwives’ Voices, Midwives’ Demands, where they asked more than 56,000 midwives and health workers around the world about what they want and need to better serve women in their care and for themselves as midwives.
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We have set up an interactive dashboard for White Ribbon Alliance which allows users to explore the respondents’ demands in free text, and visualise them into handy charts, word clouds, and a map view. The dashboard used natural language processing techniques such as supervised learning and text classifiers to categorise the responses into groups.
Screenshot of the Midwives’ Voices, Midwives’ Demands interactive NLP dashboard. Click here to explore the dashboard.
The White Ribbon Alliance has launched the dashboard today to celebrate the International Day of the Midwife, and are hoping to raise awareness of the need to improve the status of midwifery in healthcare systems today.
The Midwives’ Voices, Midwives’ Demands follows on from the groundbreaking What Women Want campaign, where White Ribbon Alliance collected 1.2 million responses from women around the world about their healthcare needs. You can explore the What Women Want campaign dashboard here.
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Many companies and organisations have large datasets that are stored in a very unstructured format. For example, you could work for a US based healthcare provider or insurer and have patient records stored in a free text format such as HL7 files or PDFs. A building regulator, land registry, or mortgage provider may have texts and accompanying diagrams from thousands of building inspections or land title deeds. A patent attorney’s office may have records of patent applications in PDF format.
On 20 May, I attended the Expert Witness Conference in Dublin, Ireland, organised by La Touche Training. It was an eye opening event with a mixture of lawyers and expert witnesses in different fields from Ireland and abroad. The event was chaired by Mr Justice Michael Peart, with a keynote address by the Honourable Mr Justice David Barniville, President of the High Court of Ireland.
Fast Data Science at Ireland’s Expert Witness Conference on 20 May 2026 in Dublin Links to guidance on legal AI issued by legal authorities and other organisations Official guidance UK: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guidance for Judicial Office Holders, 31 October 2025. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Artificial-Intelligence-AI-Guidance-for-Judicial-Office-Holders-2.pdf
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