Our Lives in Data

The quest for artificial intelligence is gathering pace, with research groups worldwide in both universities and industry making huge advances in the development of sophisticated neural networks – inspired by the architecture of the brain – that may one day give computers the capacity for independent thought. Recent developments in machine learning and the proliferation of smart devices interconnected via a global high-speed network are already starting to enable far greater interaction between machines and information – what many call […]

With the museum’s Director of External Affairs, Roger Highfield, and Prof Ed Dougherty of Texas A&M, Peter Coveney of University College London has written a critique of the blind use of big data in biology. Here Prof Coveney sums up their paper. Visit the Our Lives in Data exhibition in the Science Museum’s Wellcome Wing and you will see a section on the revolution in genetics. Today it is cheaper than ever to read a person’s entire genetic code (genome), […]

Karinna Nobbs explores the data visualisation and projection mapping needed for the Dress For Our Time installation.

The vial of rust-coloured powder may not look like much but is a very special substance that can absorb and block magnetic fields. Sheldon Paquin explains more.

How do you move an 800kg Facebook server into the Museum? Content Developer Sheldon Paquin explains more.

Discover how our data is being collected and used and how it’s making huge changes in the way we live our lives in our new exhibition.

The second in our series of blog posts on big data explores machine learning and the quantified self movement.

Roger Highfield describes a milestone supercomputer simulation that provides a glimpse of the future of medicine.

A new summer exhibition at the Science Museum explores the Big Data revolution.