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 […]
Skills & Talent
The 10th DL100 list shows how AI and Data are transforming public services across the UK
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 […]
Legal Utopia participate in PhD placement scheme to develop proof of concept in employment law
Legal Utopia is participating in the PhD Industry Placement scheme run by The Data Lab in partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s Data-Driven Innovation Entrepreneurship (DDE) Programme. Under the scheme, Katarzyna Prus, a PhD student from the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, will join the Lawtech firm, Legal Utopia for a short period to […]
2022: the year of personal development
Skills. It’s a topic that continually arises in the workplace. From conquering the IT skills gap to continuous personal development – it’s an issue that equally impacts both employers and employees. The pandemic has not only impacted the operations and viability of organisations, but as an International Labour Organisation report outlines, it disrupted the education and […]
A berry good idea – fruit growers and data scientists in landmark AI project
Data scientists at the University of Aberdeen are teaming up with fruit growers to build an artificial intelligence (AI) system to forecast harvests, which could potentially save the industry millions each year. The machine learning system for soft fruit yield forecasting is a three-year collaboration involving the University, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI […]
Data Talent returns to kickstart careers in data science
Scotland’s biggest data and AI recruitment event returns in-person to Glasgow next month. Tim Campbell MBE, Jamie Hepburn MSP and Manira Ahmad, Public Health Scotland will deliver keynotes. Data Talent, Scotland’s biggest data science and AI talent showcase, is once again opening its doors for people looking to kick start their careers in the data […]
Data science helps to drive energy storage optimisation
Lochaber-based Energy Mutual has created an online asset management software system to support the owner/operators of small to medium scale renewable energy projects such as hydro, solar PV, wind and biomass. In addition to helping monitor and maintain asset performance, in 2021 Energy Mutual began work on a framework that will help a range of […]
Becoming a Statistician at The Scottish Government
This session – recorded in January 2022 – is to give you a taster of what it’s like to work as a statistician in the Scottish Government, and to give you hints and tips on how to complete the application form and prepare for the assessment centre. While the rounds of recruitment mentioned in the […]
Start the year off right by joining our Introduction to Data for Business Leaders online learning course
The current run of The Data Lab’s online course introducing decision-makers to data will be ending on 31 March 2022. Introduction to Data for Business Leaders – FutureLearn Data opportunities are not industry or sector-specific. Our four-week leadership course goes beyond the hype of data by focusing on the practicalities of achieving business outcomes. Since […]
Closing soon: Data Science Industrial Doctorate Funding Call for Scottish Universities
The Data Lab is looking for applications from universities that have a proposed project with an industry or public sector partner. The current funding call closes on Friday 11th February at 5pm. With limited funding available this is a competitive call and we would expect to make 2 PhD/EngD awards from the call. Industrial Doctorate […]
