Bringing software solutions to your research

Welcome to Dreaming Spires

Bringing Software Solutions to Your Research

We develop bespoke research software and provide consultancy services for the research sector.

We'd love to find out about your research project, and how we can help!

I found the Dreaming Spires team immediately engaged with my project and understood the requirements and issues that mattered to me. They worked well and collaboratively during the development of the code and were attentive with their follow-up and post-contract support. They even helped with writing a pitch document for getting funding to extend the capabilities of the software.
Professor Jeremy Green, King's College London

We work flexibly to your needs

Fixed deliverable software development

Hours-based consultancy adaptable to requirements

Grant proposal drafting to secure funding for a project

Collaborations with existing Research Software groups

Private sector projects for industry partners

Our Specialisms

Python/R Tools

(see the PyETR Project)

Data Science/Engineering

(see Mat-DP)

Backend/Frontend Web Technologies

(see GPAS)

Mobile Apps

(see Oxford Mindmap)

HPC and Low Level Languages

(see our Big Data Institute work)

Project Highlights

Some of our previous projects

EPIONCHO-IBM

The PyETR Project

Mat-DP-Pipeline

Population modelling for disease

A model for human reasoning

Data processing for CO₂ usage

EPIONCHO-IBM is a disease model of onchoceriasis. It is used to simulate the way this particular disease spreads through a population. From the simulation, predictions can be made about the best point to give treatment in the real world.

For this project, Dreaming Spires were given a piece of existing R code that represented the correct algorithm, and refactored this into a much faster Python model. As part of the refactor we made several optimisations to the code that resulted in a factor of 10 speed increase. The now accelerated project is currently being used to plan treatment programmes in this sector. See more...
The book Reason and Inquiry by Philipp Koralus, McCord Professor of Philosophy and AI at the University of Oxford, presents a mathematical theory of the human capacity to reason. Over the course of the PyETR Project, at Dreaming Spires we helped Koralus' research group develop this into a Python package that performs the same operations.

This package allows users to translate strings that represent each problem into Python objects, before performing a series of operations that simulate human reasoning patterns. The package will be open-source and ready for release soon – watch this space! See more...
When discussing issues around CO₂ production, frequently the operations of power plants and solar farms are analysed. Less discussed are the materials that go into these plants and farms - in this project we designed a tool for investigating how much CO₂ the materials used create.

However, many of the pre-existing data sets displayed the same information in different ways. At Dreaming Spires we created a pipeline to convert each data set into a "Standard Data Format", before processing this information, and displaying the results in a dashboard built in Python Dash. See more...

EPIONCHO-IBM

Population modelling for disease

EPIONCHO-IBM is a disease model of onchoceriasis. It is used to simulate the way this particular disease spreads through a population. From the simulation, predictions can be made about the best point to give treatment in the real world.

For this project, Dreaming Spires were given a piece of existing R code that represented the correct algorithm, and refactored this into a much faster Python model. As part of the refactor we made several optimisations to the code that resulted in a factor of 10 speed increase. The now accelerated project is currently being used to plan treatment programmes in this sector.

The PyETR Project

A model for human reasoning

The book Reason and Inquiry by Philipp Koralus, McCord Professor of Philosophy and AI at the University of Oxford, presents a mathematical theory of the human capacity to reason. Over the course of the PyETR Project, at Dreaming Spires we helped Koralus' research group develop this into a Python package that performs the same operations.

This package allows users to translate strings that represent each problem into Python objects, before performing a series of operations that simulate human reasoning patterns. The package will be open-source and ready for release soon – watch this space!

Mat-DP-Pipeline

Data processing for CO₂ usage

When discussing issues around CO₂ production, frequently the operations of power plants and solar farms are analysed. Less discussed are the materials that go into these plants and farms - in this project we designed a tool for investigating how much CO₂ the materials used create.

However, many of the pre-existing data sets displayed the same information in different ways. At Dreaming Spires we created a pipeline to convert each data set into a "Standard Data Format", before processing this information, and displaying the results in a dashboard built in Python Dash.

GET IN TOUCH!

Whether you’re beginning to wonder how computation would aid your research, or already have a fully-planned specification, we’d love to hear from you. Our consultants will be happy to discuss the ways in which your research could be accelerated by our bespoke software solutions.

Contact us at:

contact@dreamingspires.dev

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