Guest post by Eleni Kotzampasaki, Analytics Team Lead at Aquila Insight At Aquila Insight we work closely with clients to understand their business questions, use advanced analytics and technology to answer these issues through data and communicate back how the resulting insights can be transformed into action. As a data scientist, I am passionate about […]
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A Look at Data on Fruit and Veg Prices
Author: Roman Popat, Data Scientist, The Data Lab. Key Points Ever wondered when is the best time in the season to buy certain products? We examined a dataset from DEFRA on wholesale prices of fruit and veg. We applied a technique called ‘seasonal trend decomposition’. When buying Strawberries (and anything in the table below), pay […]
The Data Lab presents innovative visualisation experiment for Big Data Scotland 2015
We have been programmed to engage, analyse and communicate data in 2D, limited to the confines of the rectanglular world of our devices, monitors and projectors. What if we were to break those boundaries, place ourselves within the data and interact with it: could we gain new insight, could we create new emotional responses? In […]
Round-up of Scottish delegation Big Data in Finance trip to New York
Author: Jude McCorry, Head of Business Development, The Data Lab During the first week of December The Data Lab and Scottish Enterprise/SDI we had a very successful and enjoyable trip to New York with 8 Scottish Data related businesses who attended the Big Data in Finance event and also visited companies like Verrisk Analytics, Dataminr, […]
Insights from Strata California
The Data Lab, in collaboration with Scottish Development International (SDI), supported a group of representatives from Scottish business to attend the recent Strata + Hadoop World Conference, Make Data Work in San Jose, California. We met with three of the attendees Dave Evans (Data Scientist at FreeAgent), Tony Lucas (founder of Helpa) and George […]
5 Reasons why data driven app development is revolutionising healthcare
Guest blog post by Michael Romilly, Marketing Director at Waracle. Today’s healthcare professionals are suggesting that mobile app development (termed mHealth) and wearable technology are revolutionising healthcare as we know it. More specifically, data driven mobile app development is actually transforming the way in which chronic medical diseases are treated. Today we’re exploring 5 reasons […]
The Data Lab hosted the latest Scotland Data Science and Technology Meetup with DataKindUK
On Monday 26 October, The Data Lab hosted the latest edition of the Scotland Data Science and Technology Meetup, in collaboration with MBN Solutions. We were lucky to have Emma Prest, General Manager at Data Kind UK as our guest speaker for the night. It was a great event, and the most attended meetup so […]
The Data Lab MSc welcomes students in official launch event
This week, The Data Lab welcomed our first MSc students cohort. The Data Lab MSc is a collaborative effort between Robert Gordon University, The University of Dundee, The University of Stirling and The Data Lab. Through this collaboration, each university has developed an MSc programme based on its own strengths and capabilities around Data Science, […]
Strata London: Day 1 highlights
We’re at Strata in London this week. Day 1 was a Data-Driven Business Day, packed with presentations on practical applications of analytics across domains including Government, health, internet and venture capital. Top five stand out presentations of the day (in our opinion) were: Large-Scale Emotion Analytics by Daniel McDuff (@danmcduff) from Affectiva. Daniel walked through […]
Interview with Inez Hogarth, Head of Analytics at brightsolid
The Data Lab is happy to share an insightful interview with Inez Hogarth, Head of Analytics at brightsolid. This is the first in a series of interviews with members of the Data Science community in Scotland, through which we will share the experiences of professionals and academics working in different sectors. We hope you enjoy […]