Our MSc students have now finished their year of study and are embarking on either placements or research projects. We asked three of them how they have been finding life as an MSc student and what advice they would give to others thinking about taking the same path. This is an exciting time to learn […]
Students
The MSc Innovation Week: Sure, the data was a part of the jigsaw, but just a part.
Guest blog from Data Lab MSc student, John Bell I was lucky enough to have been one of the 130 Data Lab MSc students from across Scotland who took part in The Data Lab MSc Innovation Week at the start of June. Joshua Ryan-Saha, The Data Lab’s Skills Programme Manager, recently wrote a blog post […]
The Data Lab MSc Innovation Week
Two weeks ago, The Data Lab MSc Innovation Week took place. This is our flagship week-long event where we bring together all of our 130 MSc data science students from eleven universities to form teams and work on solving real-life problems using data. This year it took place at the Whiskey Bond in Glasgow. It […]
The Data Lab MSc Challenge Competition – Meet the winners!
The inaugural Data Lab MSc Challenge Competition came to an end on Sunday 21st May, after the final 48 hour hackathon and judging ceremony. The competition, which included three hack events during the academic year, brought all 90 students funded by The Data Lab’s MSc programme from seven Scottish universities together and challenged them to […]
Urban Tide’s time with a Big Data MSc student
Guest blog post by Urban Tide We had the pleasure of spending the last few months with Big Data MSc student Christopher Lunny at Urban Tide HQ. During his time with us, Christopher did some really interesting things with Transport for London data and developed some incredible data vizualisations (more on that later.) Before he […]