A yellow background image with a faint map pattern. Top left features The University of Manchester logo with the text 'MANCHESTER 1824 The University of Manchester.' Top right displays the DSH Digital Solutions Hub logo. Centered large white text reads 'Visualise' with smaller text underneath: 'and map data relevant to your policy area, question or area of interest.' Bottom center includes logos for UKRI and the Natural Environment Research Council.
Did you know that the NERC DSH will allow users to easily map and visualise data within the online Hub, without the need for specific software?
Don't forget to sign up to our newsletter for early access to the Hub later this year.
📩 digital-solutions.uk/index.php/si...
01.08.2025 09:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read our latest update from our Director on how we are:
✅ Using AI in the Hub
✅ Producing a tool that users want and can trust
✅ Applying a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approach
Find out where we are up to, and what we are working on next: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/ge...
28.07.2025 09:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by The University of Manchester
GeoAI – overcoming the hype and avoiding hallucinations | Professor Richard Kingston at GEOBusiness
How is the NERC Digital Solutions Hub using AI and large language models to aid easy search and discovery of environmental data? 🤖
Find out by listening to Professor Richard Kingston's full talk from the GEO Business 2025 Conference last month: youtu.be/FBvSzpnQcQI
16.07.2025 11:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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40 petabytes of data is equivalent to 15 billion ebooks or 3512 years scrolling through TikTok📱
This is the amount of environmental, health, economic and social data, that will be available to access on the NERC Digital Solutions Hub.
👉 Find out more: digital-solutions.uk/index.php/da...
07.07.2025 08:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The main feature of the image is the text in the middle that reads 'Search' in large font, with 'and discover over 40 petabytes of environmental, social, economic and health data.' in smaller font underneath.
Search over 40 petabytes of environmental, social, economic and health data on the DSH🔍
Follow along to discover how we are using #AI and #LLMs to facilitate easy search and discovery of data sets.
👉Find out more about the NERC Digital Solutions Hub: digital-solutions.uk
02.07.2025 10:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🔍 Search 🗺️ Visualise 📈 Analyse
Learning from 2 years of user experience research with environmental data users, the NERC Digital Solutions Hub will deliver in ways that other tools fall short.
👉 Read more about our user experience research findings: www.digital-solutions.uk/wp-content/u...
18.06.2025 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Can't wait to get your hands on 40+ petabytes of environmental data in one easy to use Hub? Join our user testing in the Autumn for early access to the Digital Solutions Hub🍁
Register for our mailing list to gain access to our Autumn user testing: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/si...
16.06.2025 13:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On the left is a headshot of Professor Richard Kingston. Below the photo is text that reads "Prof Richard Kingston. Professor of Urban Planning and GISc. University of Manchester."
On the right is text that reads "See me speak at GEO Business. The Geospatial event. ExCeL London, UK. 4-5 June 2025. Register for free."
Just over 2 weeks until the NERC Digital Solutions Hub takes on the #GEOBusiness Conference - the UK’s largest geospatial event for everyone involved in the capture, analysis and use of geospatial data 🗺️
Make sure to say 'hello'👋
Read about the DSH: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/bl...
16.05.2025 09:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Limited time left to register 🚨
Join us for a webinar on 20 May to learn about the findings from two years of user research focusing on the needs and wants of environmental data users.
👉 Find out more and register for free here: www.tickettailor.com/events/bette...
15.05.2025 10:05 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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👋 Join us on 4 and 5 June at GEOBusiness to learn about what the DSH is, who it is for and why they should use it.
Come and say 'hey' at our stand, or see our Director, Professor Richard Kingston's talk on the main stage.
Learn more about the conference 👉 geobusinessshow.com
09.05.2025 08:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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In recent years, 77% of neighbourhoods have typically experienced weather hot enough to lead to excess heat-related mortality. However, not all people are affected equally.
Read more about Climate Just, which will make up part of the DSH toolkit: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/0...
02.05.2025 08:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Digital Solutions Hub - Who should use it and why?
Find out why the NERC Digital Solutions Hub was created, who it's intended users are and what the value of using it will be.
If you work in the civil service, local government, a charity, public organisation or if you just work with data, the DSH could help you.
👉 Find out how the DSH could help you with data-based decision making in our new Hubdate: digital-solutions.uk/index.php/hu...
29.04.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🌍 Just 4 weeks to go until our free online webinar where you can join us to hear about the findings of 2 years of user research exploring the needs of environmental data users.
Find out more and register: tickettailor.com/events/bette...
22.04.2025 13:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This graphic has The University of Manchester logo in the top left corner and a Digital Solutions Hub logo in the top right corner. In between the logos there is text that reads 'Hubdates: a mini blog series'. The main text at the bottom of the graphic is in bigger font and reads 'Who are the potential users of the DSH and why should they use it?'.
New Hubdate blog published 🚨
If you work with environmental, social, health or economic data, read about how the DSH can help you to search for and discover data.
👉 Learn more: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/hu...
14.04.2025 08:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What is the DSH? 🤔
An online toolkit opening up access 40+ petabytes of data that is easily searchable, can be mapped and analysed all within the Hub.
Receive the latest updates and information about early access to the DSH in your inbox 👉 lnkd.in/euuxYhgH
08.04.2025 12:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The image reads 'GEO Business, the geospatial event. ExCeL London, UK. 4-5 June 2025.'
In June the DSH team will be at the GEO Business Conference in London.
Will you be there too? Come and say 'hello' at our stand to learn more about the DSH, and how it may benefit you and your work 👋
👉 Learn more about the #GEOBusiness conference here: geobusinessshow.com
01.04.2025 08:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This image is announcing an online webinar titled "What users want & the challenges they face accessing environmental data: insights from user needs research." The webinar is scheduled for May 20, 2025, from 14:00 to 15:00. Tickets are free, and registration can be completed by following the link in the description. The document highlights the focus on understanding user needs and the challenges encountered when accessing environmental data.
Come and join us on 20 May to learn about the findings of 2 years of user research exploring the needs of environmental data users across the UK's four nations.
Discover how this user research is being used to inform the DSH.
👉 Find out more and register here: tickettailor.com/events/bette...?
28.03.2025 09:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Next week, our Director Richard Kingston will present the DSH at the Civil Service Climate + Environment Conference 🌍
Richard will showcase some of the features of the DSH, and its value to civil servants.
👋 See you there.
#PioneeringGreenInnovation #GIS #planning #sustainability #civilservice
11.03.2025 09:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
White university of manchester logo in top left. White Digital Solutions Hub logo in top right. Text to the left reads 'What does 40+ petabytes of environmental data look like?'. Text in the bottom left reads 'digital-solutions.uk'. To the right of the graphic is an image of a browser tab that is showing the left side of the Climate Just mapping tool.
White university of manchester logo in top left. White Digital Solutions Hub logo in top right. Text to the right reads 'Read the Hubdate to discover what data you will be able to access in the NERC Digital Solutions Hub'. To the left of the graphic is an image of a browser tab that is showing the right side of the Climate Just mapping tool.
40+ petabytes of environmental data from NERC will be available on the DSH, alongside data from @metoffice.bsky.social and ONS.
What other data will be available on the Hub? And how much is 40 petabytes of data?🤔
Explore the answers in our latest Hubdate: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/da...
04.03.2025 10:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What data will be available on the NERC Digital Solutions Hub?
Welcome to the third instalment of our Hubdates, a mini blog series exploring and explaining features of the NERC Digital Solutions Hub.
🗺️ What data will be available in the NERC Digital Solutions Hub?
Our Director, Prof. Richard Kingston, explains a few examples of what data will be available for you to search, map and analyse on the DSH.
👉 Learn more in our third Hubdate: digital-solutions.uk/index.php/da...
28.02.2025 09:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How much is 40 petabytes of environmental data? What data will be available on the NERC Digital Solutions Hub? Look out for the third Hubdate coming soon to find out.
👉 Sign up to our mailing list to secure early access for later in 2025 - lnkd.in/euuxYhgH
25.02.2025 09:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌍 World Day of Social Justice 2025 is putting the emphasis on a just transition for a sustainable future.
👉Learn more about how Climate Just is helping policymakers to use data to address issues of climate justice - blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/0...
#socialjustice #climatejustice #data
20.02.2025 09:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🗺️ The DSH's uses are plentiful from informing policies to alleviate a community's vulnerability to #flooding, to monitoring real-time #airpollution data to allow A&E to prepare for patient influxes.
📩 Sign up to our mailing list to secure early-access: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/si...
13.02.2025 10:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
White university of manchester logo in top left. White Digital Solutions Hub logo in top right. The text reads 'What does 40+ petabytes of environmental data look like?'. The web address 'digital-solutions.uk' is in the bottom left of the image.
White university of manchester logo in top left. White Digital Solutions Hub logo in top right. The text reads 'Read the Hubdate to discover what data you will be able to access in the NERC Digital Solutions Hub'.
🌳 The Digital Solutions Hub will allow users to search for, map and analyse a wide range of environmental, social, health and economic data, including real-time and local scale data.
👉 Learn more by reading our new Hubdate on real-time data and UPRNs: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/hu...
28.01.2025 09:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🗺️ The NERC Digital Solutions Hub, an open-access online mapping toolkit, will use #AI and large language models to provide easy-access to 40+ petabytes of environmental data.
👉 Find out more about how the Hub will use #AI and LLMs in our recent Hubdate blog: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/hu...
15.01.2025 09:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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White University of Manchester logo in top left, white Digital Solutions Hub logo in top right. The main text reads 'Read our mini Hubdate to find out how the Hub will make finding data easy.'
🌐 #AI and large language models in the Digital Solutions Hub
will help you to find the data set to answer your problem and inform your analysis👇
The Hub will unlock easy-access to over 40 petabytes of #environmental #data.
👉 Read our first Hubdate here: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/hu...
14.01.2025 10:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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