Our marvellous MSc students have made it! Congratulations to all of our 2020-21 students who have now completed their The Data Lab MSc programme. It is no mean feat to complete an MSc in normal times – so what our students have accomplished this year, during a global pandemic, is exceptional! They have battled through, […]
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Let’s (Not) Leave Data Science to the Computer Science Students
Guest blog written by Aidan Wallace who undertook his MSc in Big Data at University of Stirling When anyone first hears the words “data science” come up in conversation they probably assume it is an extension of computing science or mathematics that is largely reserved for computing scientists, mathematicians and statisticians that already have an […]
MSc Success Stories: Aidan Wallace
MSc story piece written by Aidan Wallace who undertook his MSc in Big Data at the University of Stirling Taking time to reflect and navigating through my journey As I come to the closing months of my first year as a PhD student, I find myself looking back on how I got here in the […]
A Data Lab MSc Student’s take on data science soft skills
Guest blog by The Data Lab MSc student, Warren Smith who studied an MSc Data Science for Business at Stirling University, 2019-20 The Data Lab MSc Programme is all about supporting our students on their way to becoming the data scientists of the future. Yes we provide 155 full fee scholarships annually for data science […]
MSc Success Stories: Narinder Kaur
Narinder Kaur: joined The Data Lab MSc programme in September 2019, undertaking an MSc in Big Data Technologies at Glasgow Caledonian University. In the summer of 2020, she undertook a remote Industrial Placement at Hymans Robertson. I first came across The Data Lab through a bold advertisement which left me wondering what this innovation centre […]
Innovation Week 2021 – enabling students to connect and collaborate
From GIS to Git, Data Challenge to Data Visualisation, AI Strategy to Yoga – you can pack a lot into a The Data Lab MSc Innovation and Development week We wanted our The Data Lab MSc students, after a difficult year, to connect and collaborate with their cohort and get a sense that they are […]
MSc Success Stories: Stuart Watt and SM Abdullah Ferdous at CNRI
Stuart Watt, 26, and SM Abdullah Ferdous, 34, joined The Data Lab MSc programme in September 2019, undertaking an MSc in Data Science at Robert Gordon University, and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Aberdeen, respectively. In the summer of 2020, both students completed separate, 12-week remote placements with CNR International (CNRI), […]
Motivated data students seek organisations with real life data problems
We have 160 students studying a range of MSc courses in AI, data science and data engineering, including in health and social science domains, at universities across Scotland. We’re looking for organisations with ideas for short 8-12 week data science projects so our students can put their technical skills to work in the real world. […]
MSc Placement Programme Success Stories: Ecaterina Vidrascu
Ecaterina Vidrascu joined the Data Lab MSc placement programme in May 2020, while undertaking her course in Data Science at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University (RGU). She did her placement as an Alexa Skill Developer at TL Tech – Smart Home Solutions. It was so successful that TL Tech offered her a permanent position and she […]
Welcoming our new MSc students in a year like no other
Our new cohort of data talent was given the warmest virtual welcome On Wednesday 28 October, we welcomed the year of 2020-21 onto The Data Lab MSc Programme. In a year like no other, in a global COVID pandemic, ensuring that this cohort of new data talent gets the maximum from our programme is more […]