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Skills & Talent

Vanessa Collingridge and Manira Ahmad, Chief Officer at Public Health Scotland, on stage at Data Talent 2022

Data Talent showcase returns with top employers looking to hire tech talent

DataFest, News, Skills & Talent 21/02/2023

Around 300 students, graduates and job seekers are expected to attend Scotland’s largest annual data and AI careers event next month, where they will get the opportunity to land a job with organisations large and small. Organisers, The Data Lab, have confirmed that all companies attending this year’s Data Talent, including FanDuel, DataKirk, Equate, NatWest […]

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Tags: data and AI recruitment, recruitment, tech talent

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How The Data Lab-funded scholarship elevated my CV

News, Skills & Talent 20/02/2023

Attila Lukacs graduated from The Data Lab Academy in 2022. In this guest blog, they explain their reasons for joining the MSc programme and highlight the benefits it has brought to their career prospects and employability. Selecting the right university and course to study at a Masters level can be difficult. When I was looking […]

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The Data Lab Academy launches funding call for 2023-2024 

MSc, Skills & Talent 06/12/2022

We invite course leaders at Scottish universities to apply to join The Data Lab Academy for the 2023-2024 academic year. This opportunity provides scholarships for MSc students to participate in our employability, networking, and skills training programme alongside their academic studies at no cost. This world-class curated programme prepares students for the world of work […]

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Heather Thomson

Business data course equips leaders to drive growth

News, Professional development, Skills & Talent 03/11/2022

With Scottish businesses handling and using more data than ever before, a ground-breaking course aimed at upskilling leaders to use data more effectively, is launching to help fill a growing skills gap among senior managers. A recent report by The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) found more than 80% of UK businesses […]

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The Data Lab Academy launch event for the student class of 2022

News, Skills & Talent 24/10/2022

On Wednesday 12th October, The Data Lab team headed over to Edinburgh’s beautiful Summerhall multi-arts building to host this year’s Data Lab Academy Launch event – a happy coincidence that it fell on the same week as World Student Day? Here’s what we got up to and what to expect for future events … What […]

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2021/22 MSc students at Innovation Week

Employability training Academy launched to tackle national tech staff shortages

MSc, News, Skills & Talent 07/09/2022

The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI training, is expanding the content and reach of its industry-leading MSc programmes to include more specific employability skills training for students, to help address a worrying shortage of qualified workers across the Scottish tech sector. The new content, being offered to its MSc students via […]

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Natural Power PhD develops power forecasting excellence

Skills & Talent 02/09/2022

Natural Power has contributed to research that has resulted in a short-term (less than four hours) power forecasting system that demonstrates up to 20% improved forecast accuracy. The ability to accurately forecast minutes and hours ahead is essential for the continued growth of weather-dependent renewable energy generation, like wind and solar. Rosemary Tawn completed a […]

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Saying goodbye to our 2021/22 The Data Lab MSc cohort

MSc, Skills & Talent 01/09/2022

The Closing Event for this year’s The Data Lab MSc cohort took place on Wednesday 24th at BAaD in Glasgow.  About 90 of our students, along with 30 of their supporters, project supervisors, industry sponsors, course leaders and our funders, turned up for a celebration which showcased our programme, our community and all our students […]

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Students develop sustainable tourism solutions in data challenge

Community & Events, News, Skills & Talent 17/06/2022

The Data Lab Masters students participated in Innovation Week 2022 from May 30th to June 2nd to create solutions for a live data challenge to encourage greener tourism across Scotland. What do you get when you have a room of data science masters’ students, a craft table, and an urgent and pressing societal problem? The […]

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The 10th DL100 list shows how AI and Data are transforming public services across the UK

News, Skills & Talent 27/05/2022

The Data Lab are delighted to be nominated for the Digital Leaders 100 award for Digital Skills/Talent Initiative of the Year.  The 10th Annual Digital Leaders 100 list highlights the latest champions of digital transformation across the UK. This list shows how AI and Data are transforming real public service challenges across the UK including […]

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