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 […]
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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 […]
Open Data for Scotland – Learn, Experiment, Create
Guest blog by The City of Edinburgh Council We all know the future has data at its centre and that we need to uncover and recognise the value of our data to take full advantage of its potential – whether internally, externally or strategically. How many of us know how we will achieve this? How […]
Forget Blue Sky Thinking, Where Data Quality is Concerned it’s all about “Life Cycle Thinking”
Guest blog post by Brian Rutherford, Director at Eyecademy. — With corporate data growing at over 40% each year and up to 25% of that data corrupted, there are teams sitting in meeting rooms up and down the country stating: We know we have a data quality problem but we don’t know what to do […]
#DataBanking: Retrospective and Other Thoughts for Scottish Companies
Author: Ross Hamilton, IDE International At the beginning of December, The Data Lab and SDI sponsored a Scottish Delegation to travel to New York for the Big Data and Analytics in Banking conference. This guest blog post summarises the insights and take-aways form one of the delgation members. Last week I attended the Big Data […]
Insights from Big Data Conference in Boston
Author: Jude Mc Corry Head of Business Development at The Data Lab Week two of my new Job as Head of Business Development at the Data Lab and I was “shipped” off to Boston to attend the Big Data Conference and also attend meetings with MIT Sloan, The Innovation Institute at Masstech and Massachuesetts […]
The Rise of the Scooter
Author: Roman Popat, Data Scientist, The Data Lab I used to walk to school, right past the old man with the huge German shepherd. Depending on how brave if felt, I crossed the road to get past that particular fence. I imagine that every child’s journey to school is an adventure of sorts. How do […]