Back for their 9th year, the ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards showcase excellence within the industry rewarding the innovation, expertise and ambition of businesses large and small – and the people who drive them. The Digital Tech Awards always attract fierce competition from all corners of our industry and provide an amazing opportunity to showcase your […]
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Introducing Jared Lander, Keynote Speaker at DataTech19
Join us for DataTech19, Scotland’s first technical data science conference as part of DataFest The Data Lab is delighted to introduce a new event to the DataFest family: DataTech (14 March 2019, Edinburgh). This technical, one-day data science conference will cater to a diverse audience including analysts, developers, engineers and scientists from the public sector, […]
Summer internships with The Data Lab: two MSc students share their experience
During the summer, two of The Data Lab MSc students spent their 3 month placements with us as Data Science interns, applying their newly gained academic experience to real world problems. They tell us a little about their journey to a career in data science and their experiences working with us. We’re delighted that they’ve […]
Learning Journey: meeting Thought Leaders in New York and attending Strata 2018
Two weeks ago we took a fantastic group of people from Scotland to New York to attend various meetings with Thought Leaders in the Data Science community in New York and also attend the Strata Meeting. The visit, like previous visits, was a roaring success, with plenty of learning, networking and lots and lots of […]
The Data Lab secures £13.5m Scottish Government funding
New funding awarded after Scotland’s place as a global data leader established during first funding phase. Scotland’s data innovation centre, The Data Lab, has secured up to £13.5m in new Scottish Government funding. The announcement follows the data innovation centre’s success during its first phase of activity, in which it established Scotland as an international […]
Getting to grips with messy data at the Scottish Funding Council
This summer, three students undertook work at the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) on datasets covering students at Scottish colleges and universities. This work was completed with the ‘Performance Measurement and Analysis’ team which looks at many aspects of university and college performance. All three students were from different academic backgrounds and had very different summer […]
My data science internship has been a whirlwind of experiences
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 […]
Embracing the use of data …
Steph Wright of Cancer Innovation Challenge believes there’s no end to the potential for data to improve health and social care for all. A version of this was originally published as an Opinion Piece for the ALLIANCE website on 21 August 2018. Data, data everywhere…. We are told that our lives today generate more data […]
Emotech’s Olly the robot – with personality!
We’re very excited about the latest innovative collaboration made possible by The Data Lab: Emotech’s Olly the robot. The Data Lab funded 50% of the project research costs, enabling the tie-up with Heriot-Watt University’s Interaction Lab and Natural Language Processing (NLP) Lab, led by Dr Liu and Dr Rieser. This collaboration allowed research to be undertaken […]
Canon Medical Research receives £140k to develop AI-powered cancer assessment prototype
Canon Medical Research Europe has been awarded £140,000 to develop a prototype that combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and medical imaging technology to improve assessment for one of the most difficult cancers to manage, Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM). The Cancer Innovation Challenge aims to inspire novel data and technology innovations to help Scotland become a world […]