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 […]
Skills & Talent
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 […]
