Our Data Lab MSc student Rebecca Clancy has spent her internship working at Scottish Enterprise, using her newly acquired academic knowledge to solve some real life problems, and actively learning new methods, applications, software and other skills essential for life as a data scientist. Working at Scottish Enterprise has been, in a word, surreal. It […]
Guest blog
Life as one of The Data Lab’s MSc students
Our MSc students have now finished their year of study and are embarking on either placements or research projects. We asked three of them how they have been finding life as an MSc student and what advice they would give to others thinking about taking the same path. This is an exciting time to learn […]
Why I’m feeling positive about starting a new career in data science
Guest blog from Data Lab MSc student, John Bell It’s hard to believe that I’m coming towards the end of my year as a Data Lab MSc student. Boy, did that year go quickly. The exams are over, assignments have been submitted and there’s time to breathe and take the opportunity to reflect on how […]
The power of data transformation by John Brodie of Merkle Aquila, a DataFest18 sponsor
John Brodie, the co-founder of Merkle Aquila, who will be sponsors of DataFest18, explains that there are some amazing examples of businesses that have used data analytics to transform the way they operated, and he brings us two great stories of data transformation in action. He surprises us by looking back to 1948 for one […]
Being Bold on International Women’s Day
By Jude McCorry, Head of Business Development at The Data Lab — The 8th of March should be an important day in everyone’s calendars. Being totally honest, I don’t think I paid much attention to it previously, as it just happened and I was busy doing the doing. But it does mark International Women’s Day, […]
