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The Data Lab enables industry, public sector and world-class university researchers to innovate and develop new data science capabilities in a collaborative environment. Its core mission is to generate significant economic, social and scientific value from big data.
With a Scotland-wide presence and Hubs in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, it is in close proximity to leading industry and university institutions with world-class research in informatics and computer science. Hubs are focused on building relationships locally and delivering a range of activities that span across the three key areas:
Collaborative Innovation
The main focus of The Data Lab is to strengthen Scotland’s local industry and transfer world-leading research in informatics and computer science into the global marketplace.
Skills & Talent
The skills needed to exploit the data opportunity are in great demand and short supply. The Data Lab will work with industry and seek to create a pipeline of talented data scientists, equipped with the relevant skills.
Community Building
The Data Lab connects world-leading researchers and data scientists with local industry and public sector organisations, giving them access to experts who can help collaborate on solutions to key problems.
Working with The Data Lab brings to us, as a leading company in asset management, the leading research in academia that best matches our needs. The close involvement of The Data Lab professionals in the project development process was of enormous value in the success of our application.
Emilio Llorente-Cano
After attending the first week of the Data Science Boot Camp in Edinburgh I feel confident to navigate the open-source ecosystem in my own time to take my data science skills to the next level.
I found both weeks I was at Bootcamp to be really beneficial. Not being a programmer or a mathematician it was a challenge but it has pushed me to learn and I am at a point where I can now continue to learn in this area by myself, given the grounding I now have. I don’t think I could have achieved that with any other format than being sat in a room with other students for two weeks.
Colin Spence
The Data lab made introductions to key academic partners, facilitated the necessary IP arrangements and kept an eye on the project as we progressed. The application process was robust but straightforward and in 6 months we've commercialised academic expertise and made several key connections directly as a result of the project and support provided by The Data Lab.
Callum Murray
The trip was VERY useful to immerse me into the current data science ecosystem. As someone who works at a strategic level, but has a technical computer science background, it’s immediately helped me learn the language of data science and will significantly improve my ability to work on our direction at a strategic level, while understand the nuts of bolts of what’s going on around data in our business.