Aggreko: Improving fleet reliability through data insight Glasgow-based Aggreko, Scotland’s 10th largest company, wanted to monitor and be able to predict and react to any potential generator maintenance issues to ensure it continues to deliver uninterrupted and reliable power to its global customers. The Data Lab partnered Aggreko with the University of Strathclyde who delivered […]
The Data Lab MSc Challenge Competition – Meet the winners!
The inaugural Data Lab MSc Challenge Competition came to an end on Sunday 21st May, after the final 48 hour hackathon and judging ceremony. The competition, which included three hack events during the academic year, brought all 90 students funded by The Data Lab’s MSc programme from seven Scottish universities together and challenged them to […]
Inaugural DataFest17 a success
Last week marked the inaugural DataFest17, the first festival of data innovation underlining Scotland’s strength within the ever growing global data landscape. Building up on the success of Data Talent Scoltand last year, we decided to go big this year. As an innovation centre, our mission is to innovate, to be bold, and to set […]
Learning Journey: Strata Data Conference, New York
The Data Lab, in collaboration with Scottish Development International (SDI), are delighted to support a limited number of places to attend the Strata Data Conference: Make Data Work in New York, taking place from 26 to 28 September 2017. Passes for the conference will be supplied by The Data Lab. Strata Data Conference is a […]
New job site targets Scotland’s booming digital technologies industry
A new free-to-use job site has been launched by FutureScot.com, targeting the growing digital technologies sector in Scotland. The industry is currently experiencing rapid growth; a recent survey by ScotlandIS found that 82% of Scotland’s digital technologies businesses expect sales to increase in 2017. 78% of firms forecast that they will hire more staff this […]
The Search for Big Data and Data Science
Guest blog post by Brian Rutherford, Co-founding Director of Eyecademy The first thing that struck me, sitting in the conference room three stories up in the New York Marriot, was how mature Data science and Big Data was in the US. I’d been following Big Data and Data Science for the past two years but […]
Urban Tide’s time with a Big Data MSc student
Guest blog post by Urban Tide We had the pleasure of spending the last few months with Big Data MSc student Christopher Lunny at Urban Tide HQ. During his time with us, Christopher did some really interesting things with Transport for London data and developed some incredible data vizualisations (more on that later.) Before he […]
An Introduction to Augmented Reality App Development
Guest blog post from Waracle What is Augmented Reality (AR)? The world of mobile technology moves at lightning pace. If you’re a software development manager, trying to stay on top of the latest trends it is almost a full-time job in itself. Staying in tune with the latest trends is tricky that’s why we’re […]
The Data Lab Launches UK’s First Data Festival – DataFest17
The Data Lab is bringing the UK’s first ever week-long data science festival to Scotland in partnership with Sainsbury’s Bank in March 2017. The inaugural DataFest17 will be a celebration of innovation and will showcase Scotland’s leading data science capabilities, attracting international experts in data science to Scotland. Gillian Docherty, CEO of The Data Lab, […]
Data Disruption in TV Advertising
Guest post by Calum Smeaton, CEO and founder, TVSquared In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon took part in the first televised presidential debate in the U.S. Kennedy, in a well-tailored suit, looked straight into the camera and commanded the attention of the 70 million people watching. Recovering from an illness, Nixon, on the […]