Launch of INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics

The official launch of INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics took place today, 12 December 2013. INSIGHT is a joint initiative between researchers at UCD, NUI Galway, UCC, DCU and other partner institutions. With initial funding of more than €75m from SFI and industry, this is the largest single investment in science research in Ireland ever.

INSIGHT will be Ireland's National Data Analytics and Big Data Research Centre and will bring together a critical mass of researchers to develop a new generation of data analytics technologies and their application to connected health and the discovery economy. Within DCU it builds upon much of the work of the CLARITY CSET. DCU staff directly involved in the initial phase are: Dermot Diamond, Cathal Gurrin, Kieran Moran, Niall Moyna, Noel O'Connor, Mark Roantree, Alan Smeaton and Ray Walshe, with others across campus already exploiting further funding leveraged under INSIGHT.