Guest blog post by Gordon Laing, Author at Barrachd. In this guest blog post, Gordon Laing from Barrachd discusses the importance of having clear focus and asking the right questions as a vital first step in a succesful analytics project. — The problem with this blog post is that it lacks a clear focus. I […]
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Big Data, Big Deal?
Guest blog by George Walker, Associate Director, RSM UK Big Data is a common term used to describe the exponential growth and availability of both structured and unstructured data. But what does this mean for the SME market and how can this proliferation of data be harnessed to add value to an SME? Data on […]
Funding opportunity to attend international events
After a very succesful learning trip to New York in December, The Data Lab in collaboration with Scottish Development International (SDI) is supporting a limited number of places to attend 2 international events in 2016. The Data Lab is offering 8 fully-paid passes for each event, and SDI is complementing the offer with travel and […]
Interested in joining us at O’Reilly Strata 19th – 21st November 2014 in Barcelona?
The Data Lab in collaboration with Scottish Development International is supporting a limited number of places to attend O’Reilly Strata 2014 in Barcelona. The global market opportunity for data science and big data applications and services is significant. The Data Lab and Scottish Development International aim to help Scottish companies attract collaboration from leading technology […]
Call for Funding
The Data Lab has opened its first collaborative innovation funding call for industry-led projects using leading edge data science. Total funding of £150,000 is available and this call is prior to the Innovation Centre’s official launch later this year. A maximum of £50,000 funding per project will be awarded to projects with a defined market […]
Upcoming Data Science Events
The Data Lab is preparing for its launch event on 30th October 2014. This new innovation centre enables Scottish industry to capitalise on the rapidly growing data science market. We unite world-class researchers and data scientists with industry and public sector organisations to generate economic, social and scientific value. Ahead of our official launch, we […]
Machine Translation
One area where data science has already had worldwide impact is in helping humans understand languages they don’t speak. This challenge is getting bigger. In 2009, 37 languages were required to¨ reach 98 per cent of people who were online. To reach the same percentage in 2012, 48 languages were needed. The solution, of course, […]
The Data Lab to exploit £17bn of business benefits
The Data Lab, Scotland’s new Data Science innovation centre, will play a key role in helping companies take advantage of the business growth opportunities from better use of data. The growth of data in recent years means companies are exposed to more information than ever before. Innovative and effective use of data can provide unique […]
Terrier
Researchers at the University of Glasgow have over a decade of experience developing innovative big data analytics for search applications in both high volume and high velocity scenarios. Terrier, an open source toolkit for building search engine applications and researching the technologies that underpin them, is the result of continuous research and development of innovative […]
Alan Turing Institute
Scottish universities have an opportunity to bid for up to £42m of funding to create a new Alan Turing Institute to deliver new research and education initiatives in the data sciences. The Institute aims to ensure that the UK remains at the forefront of research into the analytical methods, which underpin our ability to exploit […]
