The Faculty of Science鈥檚 new Computational and Data Systems Initiative will help researchers unlock the power of data-intensive research methods
If you follow science news, you will almost certainly have encountered the term 鈥榤odelling鈥. From understanding climate change, to predicting the course of a pandemic, to developing the pharmaceuticals to fight one, scientists seem to have a 鈥榤odel鈥 for everything. But have you ever wondered just what the term means and how scientists go about creating models?