How data can revolutionise mental health science: video interview with the Wellcome Trust

· Thomas Wood

Find out how AI and natural language processing are being used in mental health research and other areas of social sciences research.

Here’s a series of interviews with the Wellcome Trust about the Mental Health Data Prize. Members of the three winning teams are discussing the prize and the transformative potential of data in mental health science. Thomas Wood at Fast Data Science talks about the Harmony project, funded by the Wellcome Trust and now by ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council.

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Harmony’s team consists of Bettina Moltrecht at UCL, Eoin McElroy at Ulster University, Thomas Wood at Fast Data Science, Mauricio Scopel Hoffman at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, John Rogers at Delosis, and Rachel Holland Gomes.

Recent publication coming out of the Wellcome-funded Harmony project

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