Matthew Delaney

Research Scientist ยท 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.