Matthew Delaney

Research Scientist · Data scientist

University Research Funding

The UKRI (UK Research and Innovate) is responsible for deciding which institutions receive research grant. Comparing this publicly available data with university league tables I try to model the level of funding an institution receives based on their university league table performance using a range of approaches.


This project is hosted on Github viewed with NBviewer to render the ipython notebooks (see links below).


Data mining and cleaning
ML notebook

A few different regression models were tried with a Random Forest Regression providing the best result.