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 […]
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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 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 […]
Daniel Craig clocks up the most mileage as James Bond
by Dr Richard Carter, Data Scientist, The Data Lab — It was in the summer of 1977 that it all began. My family was on holiday in the Isle of Wight when my father took me to the cinema to watch The Spy Who Loved Me. I only have one real memory of that day, […]
Data Talent Scotland a Success
The day came and went so quickly! After an intense 8 weeks of planning, we are glad to say it was all worth it and Data Talent Scotland was a success. Feedback form students, business, universities and data enthusiasts has been great and we are already looking forward to DTS 2017. Hosted by The Data […]
Inspiring young women for a future in STEM
In commemoration of International Women’s Day (IWD) earlier this week, it is important to take stock. Over the past year equality issues have enjoyed a higher profile but there are still key gaps whether in pay or the proportion of women in key roles. Indeed a recent report showed that one third of schoolgirls in […]
Thoughts and highlights from Strata+Hadoop, San Jose 2016
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 […]
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 […]