Speed Build: White House Digital Twin

Whilst we’re all waiting for the final result of the US Election we decided to give our new Digital Twin SaaS platform a whirl. 18 minutes later a 3D model of the whitehouse was done. Take a look below…

2 Sides of AI

Earlier this month our CEO David McKee joined the CEOs of Scaled Insights and Innotech to talk about effect that Covid has had on driving digital transformation. In this 2 part series with The Business Desk they also looked at how Covid has exposed another side to AI and automation in a world without reliable […]

The Semantics of Data

In this, the next article of our Data Series, we move away from focussing on our normal perceptions of data and look at it from a different angle: semantics and meaningful information. Data can bring transformational value to a business if harnessed correctly and used in a meaningful way. In this article experts from Iotics […]

Introduction to Open Data

This Week’s Expert: James Maddison – the Open Data Institute (ODI) James has been a consultant at the Open Data Institute (ODI) for nearly four years. As the ODI has adapted and evolved in response to changing global and political environments, James has worked across many relevant topics areas, from open cities and public services, […]

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 […]

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 […]