by Roman Popat, Data Scientist at The Data Lab The Data Lab escaped to San Jose a few weeks ago to attend Strata+Hadoop World. What a week it was! Strata is a huge conference and so it can be quite daunting having to decide between such a wide variety of sessions. Despite this, I found […]
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What does air travel look like in the 21st century?
by Adarsh Janakiraman, Data Science Intern at The Data Lab The Internet has often been attributed the title of humanity’s greatest unifier, bringing people from across the globe, a little closer to each other. A gift to humanity though it might be, it has dulled our senses to anything that doesn’t move at the speed […]
Outcomes of the Scottish Delegation visit to Singapore
At the beginning of March, The Data Lab in collaboration with Scottish Development International (SDI) hosted a Scottish delegation to Singapore to attend the Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit, organised by Innovation Enterprise. The Data Lab sponsored conference passes for the event, while SDI complemented the offer with travel and accommodation support grants for […]
Data Science at FreeAgent: an intern’s story
Guest blog post by Fiona Christie, Data Scientist at FreeAgent Condensing my time at FreeAgent into one post hasn’t been easy. The amount I’ve learned and the amount that I’ve enjoyed the experience surpass what can be deemed a reasonable length for a blog post by far. Luckily, however, I’ve managed to condense it down […]
Do you know what makes a Data Scientist? No worries, AdzunaDataBot is at your service
Who is a Data Scientist? Are they statisticians who have a solid understanding of data and modeling, and love commenting on the shape of bell curves? Are they scientists, who can design experiments and test hypothesis? Are they programmers who eat code for lunch and can process vast amounts of data in their sleep? Or […]
World class data science ‘Boot Camp’ launched in UK
We are delighted to launch the first Data Lab professional development boot camp in collaboration with The Data Incubator, a leading US data science training organisation led by Michael Li, a former NASA analyst whose US-based courses are ‘harder to get into than Harvard’. Scotland’s first ever Data ‘Boot Camp’ will be delivered this September […]
Reflections on a Successful Learning Journey to New York
During the first week of December The Data Lab and Scottish Development International (SDI) hosted a very successful and enjoyable trip to New York with 5 Scottish Data related businesses who attended the Chief Data Officer Summit and visited companies like IBM Watson, Dataminr, Cognito, The New York Tech Alliance and UNICEF. We had the […]
Learning Journey: Strata + Hadoop San Jose, March 2017
After the success of last year’s visit to San Jose, The Data Lab in collaboration with Scottish Development International (SDI) are delighted to support a limited number of places to attend the Strata + Hadoop World: Make Data Work Conference in San Jose, California taking place from 13 to 16 March 2017. Passes for the […]
The Data Lab welcomes 90 future Data Scientists at the 2016/17 MSc launch event
On Saturday 8th October, we were delighted to welcome our 90 new Data Science students at The Data Lab MSc 2016/17 launch event. It was a great day full of networking opportunities, insightful presentations and group activities. The Data Lab MSc 2015/16 awards were also announced at the event, recognising the best student and best […]
Where to Study Data Science in Scotland?
To help narrow down the plethora of Data Science and related MSc and BSc courses in Scotland, we have created a simple web application that details what each course has to offer. What is it? Our web application allows you to search for a specific degree by the modules and programming languages that are taught. […]