The Data Lab is bringing the UK’s first ever week-long data science festival to Scotland in partnership with Sainsbury’s Bank in March 2017. The inaugural DataFest17 will be a celebration of innovation and will showcase Scotland’s leading data science capabilities, attracting international experts in data science to Scotland. Gillian Docherty, CEO of The Data Lab, […]
Skills & Talent
The DMA – Events and Training in Scotland
Guest post by The DMA Group — If you’re involved in data, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) should be at the front of your mind. Brexit is now a reality we can’t hide from, but we should be putting customers first anyway? But where do you start to find out what the new regulations mean […]
DATA APPRENTICESHIPS: Developing Data Talent for Scotland
Data is changing everything from the way we diagnose diseases, advertise products or even drive cars (or not…). As businesses become more digital and organisations are waking up to the opportunities that data science opens up, the call for a data-savvy workforce is intensifying. Employers will seek, above all, analysts who can ask the right […]
The Data Lab MSc – Summer Placements
For 2016/17 there are now 90 The Data Lab funded MSc places across seven Scottish universities up from the 40 places funded across three universities previously. There is a growing need to deliver workplace-ready data skills into Scotland’s business and public sector communities. That is why all students on The Data Lab MSc are […]
Reflections on a Successful Learning Journey to New York
During the first week of December The Data Lab and Scottish Development International (SDI) hosted a very successful and enjoyable trip to New York with 5 Scottish Data related businesses who attended the Chief Data Officer Summit and visited companies like IBM Watson, Dataminr, Cognito, The New York Tech Alliance and UNICEF. We had the […]
Data Science Boot Camp Upskills Scottish Data Scientists
The Data Lab delivered a three-week Data Science Boot Camp in Edinburgh from 12th September for 42 attendees. The Boot Camp was developed in partnership with New York’s globally renowned The Data Incubator, whose courses are reputedly harder to get into than Harvard, as part of a drive to plug the nation’s data skills gap. […]
Learning Journey: Strata + Hadoop San Jose, March 2017
After the success of last year’s visit to San Jose, The Data Lab in collaboration with Scottish Development International (SDI) are delighted to support a limited number of places to attend the Strata + Hadoop World: Make Data Work Conference in San Jose, California taking place from 13 to 16 March 2017. Passes for the […]
Call for Proposals: Hack Weekends
The Data Lab requires assistance in the preparation and running a series of hack weekends, part of our 2016/17 MSc programme. The Data Lab MSc is a fully funded challenge-based learning programme, now entering its second year. It aims to tackle the skills gap in data science and provide students with an education geared towards meeting […]
Online Learning Funding Call
Over the last five years there has been an explosion in the number of educational courses provided online. This is no surprise when you consider the potential benefits to the learner. You can learn what you want. You can learn at home. You can learn at your own pace. Online courses have the potential to […]
