Can Digital Twins Sustainably Save Money? Yes it can
The Challenge The World Health Organisation discovered that 3 million deaths a year are caused by air pollution and is recognised as a contributing factor in the onset of Heart Disease and Cancer. With city councils declaring climate emergencies it became evident that a rapid response was needed. Back in March we embarked on a […]
Big Data: The Big Questions
This Week’s Expert: Dennis Dokter Dennis is the Relationship Officer at Nexus, the University of Leeds’ innovation hub., Nexus connects businesses to world-class research and expertise across the University, providing bespoke support that delivers real commercial impact and accelerates growth. Prior this, Dennis worked at Statistics Netherlands (CBS) as Grant Development Manager, acquiring funds for […]
Why Geospatial data is so important
This Week’s Expert: Tom Link Tom Link is founder of SpatialKey: A data enrichment and geospatial insurance solution that had been incubated within Tom’s professional services company, Universal Mind. Having recently sold SpatialKey to Insurity, a Data Analytics company for insurers, Tom stepped down from being CEO to pursue his next adventure. Before entering the […]
Reasons why Dealing with Data is Difficult
Why is data so difficult to work with? We turn to our developer team at Slingshot for the answers… Dealing with data on a daily basis, our developer team start us off with some thoughts relating to Big Data in the context of simulation and Digital Twins and some of the challenges and values data […]
Dealing with Data Series
Why Data? As we highlighted in the Digital Twins for Beginners article, Digital Twins have to be based on data, open data preferably, and then given more data as time goes on. Therefore its essential that we understand where this data comes from, its formats, and scale. Dr David McKee, CEO/CTO Slingshot Simulations It became […]
Understanding: AI & Simulation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Simulation are two very familiar terms in the Tech world – but how do the pair partner up? Stuart Sherman, CEO of AI company Scaled Insights and a well-known keynote speaker on topics related to AI, sat down with our CEO/CTO David McKee to discuss the differences between simulation and AI […]
Slingshot Joins Microsoft for Startups
We are pleased to announce that we have been accepted onto the Microsoft for Startups: An initiative designed to bring start-up software to an enterprise level of quality. It is a great privilege to be accepted onto the Microsoft for Startups programme. Through this partnership with Microsoft we hope to build upon our seed investment […]
Our Slingshot Digital Twin Series Summarised
In the Digital Twin Series Finale, CEO/CTO Dr David McKee rounds up the series with a reflection on each of the contributions and lays out what a Digital Twin means to us at Slingshot. We began this Digital Twin series of interviews and articles with many of the key thought and technical leaders within the […]
Digital Twins for Beginners
What is a Digital Twin? Initially I wanted to say a Digital Twin is a digital version of anything I can see around me, but after reading our Digital Twin series, I do not believe that definition does a Digital Twin justice. The word “version” implies that a Digital Twin is static and captures a […]
Data Insights, Digital Twins and Dashboarding
Last Week We looked at the role of Digital Twins in the workplace and how during COVID-19 they could be used to help us return to work quickly and safely. This Week We look at a particlar aspect of Digital Twins, being Business Intelligence and Dashboarding. We talk to the CEO of one of the […]