The Data Lab MSc programme for 2017/18 was officially launched at an event yesterday, where we welcomed our new cohort of 130 students across 11 Scottish Universities. It was a fun day of networking, where students got to hear about their year ahead, and learn from real Data Scientists’ experiences both in the private and […]
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Collaboration between Scottish Government, NHS/NSS and The Data Lab Wins Award
On Wednesday 21st June, the annual Holyrood Connect ICT Awards took place at the Waldorf Astoria in Edinburgh. The awards celebrate excellence in public sector ICT, aiming to recognise the achievements of Scotland’s leading public sector practitioners and teams and their work in developing innovative and creative solutions to public service challenges through the use […]
Data-Driven Design of Abstract Art
Post by Matthew Higgs, Data scientist at The Data Lab An Example of Negative-Time Evaluation in The Intention Economy Motivation Every prototype you build is an investment of time and/or money, and it’s only when you start getting feedback on a prototype that you can start to assess whether it was a good/bad investment. What […]
ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards 2018
Application is now open for the Digital Technology Awards 2018! The Digital Tech Awards on 26 April always attract fierce competition from all corners of our industry and provide an amazing opportunity to showcase your company. Be in with a chance to win one of their coveted awards. The Data Lab are proud to be […]
The Data Lab launches CPD & Training Programme
The Data Lab has launched its CPD and Training Programme for 2017 this week. Building on the success of previous modules, The Data Lab will be offering courses ranging from data visualisation to statistics. Andy Kirk from Visualising Data will return to Edinburgh in November to deliver a one day course as part of the […]
Scotland Can Do SCALE 2017: World Class Business Growth Training
Are you an ambitious, innovative entrepreneur who wants to grow your business in the UK and internationally? Or are you a business founder who has seen your growth stall and need to be re-energised? Perhaps you are a corporate innovator leading a product development team and need a structured approach to achieve scale on a […]
New Data-driven Innovation Help for Scottish Businesses
Scottish Enterprise, The Data Lab and ScotlandIS are joining forces to create a programme of activities and support for business to help them understand and take advantage of the massive benefits of data-driven innovation. This next wave of innovation will disrupt existing markets and create new business models that are built on having better access […]
CoderDojo at Storm ID – Learn to Code in Edinburgh
Guest post by StormID Digital Skills for Everyone We’re excited to officially kick off a series of monthly coding lessons for children and teenagers interested in the world of digital, commencing this April! Members of Storm ID and Storm Ideas (full of knowledge about coding and equally full of enthusiasm to pass this knowledge on […]
openSIMD: Opening up the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
by Maike Waldmann and Roman Popat — You have heard of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) but wonder how it was calculated? You want to use SIMD but without all the health data in it? You want a rich dataset to play with in R? You want to calculate your own composite index […]
Gifted student to boost data science skills with aid of RoS scholarship
A promising data scientist is to receive financial support to gain the skills needed to begin a career in computing and data science. A new scholarship award will support a student at the University of Edinburgh through a master’s degree in the developing discipline. Funding for the one-year MSc in High Performance Computing with Data […]