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 […]
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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 […]
The Data Lab welcomes Gillian Docherty as our new CEO
On behalf of The Data Lab, I am delighted to announce that Gillian Docherty has been appointed as our Chief Executive Officer, with effect from 1 June 2015. Over the last few months, we have made great progress in establishing The Data Lab under the guidance of Dave Clark, who held the position of interim […]
The origin of Star Wars characters’ names determined using Data Science
In preparation for the new Star Wars movie premier, Richard and Roman, the Data Scientists at The Data Lab, have analysed several hundred characters from the Star Wars films and associated series’ to determine from which language each name is most likely to have come. A list of over 500 names was taken from Wikipedia […]
Technology innovation in the Financial Services sector
Big data represents one of the biggest technical trends, challenges and opportunities facing the data-central banking and financial services sector to which data and its manipulation and management are central. Generating business value from how actionable data is captured, stored, processed, analysed and utilised within the business (including front, back and mid-offices) remains a critical […]
The Data Lab is growing, and it’s open for business
The first quarter of 2015 has been a busy one for The Data Lab! The first collaborative projects have kicked off, with a growing list of potential new projects on the pipeline. We are also busy preparing for The Data Lab MSc starting in September. The MSc will be delivered by Robert Gordon University, The […]
Interview with Michael Young, CEO of MBN Solutions
Continuing with our series of interviews with members of the Data Science community in Scotland, The Data Lab is glad to share an interesting interview with Michael Young, CEO of MBN Solutions. This post also follows up on our series of articles on education and the data skills challenge. We asked Michael to share some […]