The Data Lab’s MSc placement programme is open for any Scottish organisation looking to inject state of the art data science technologies, creativity and enthusiasm into your organisation. Through our partners MBN Academy, we can find you a student to work on a data science project. The students will get the opportunity to apply their […]
Thought Leadership
Utilising AI techniques to tackle Scotland’s, and the World’s, climate emergency
Scottish Enterprise, in collaboration with the Scottish Government, calls on innovative organisations to help solve the Climate Emergency by harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The specific focus of this competition is in the use of AI to enable or significantly enhance products or processes that help to mitigate factors contributing to the […]
Interactive Intelligence: Human-In-The-Loop Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning has captured a large share of academic and industry attention during recent years, both in terms of new capabilities and the implications to society. Many state-of-the-art techniques are able to provide important capabilities for different fields, yet we are far from creating artificial general intelligence. Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) is a branch […]
Generative Adversarial Networks – when AI gets creative
Since Frank Rosenblatt introduced the Perceptron in 1958, neural networks have significantly evolved and taken the world by storm. Their ability to model complex, non-linear relationships that exist in data, led to novel neural network architectures, able to outperform humans in various challenging tasks like face recognition, disease prognosis and playing video games. However, even […]
The blockchain and how it could solve our recycling problems
Guest blog from Stewart McGrenary, Managing Director of Plunc.com Attention is constantly drawn to Scotland’s recycling problem from a number of different angles, highlighting various subjects such as e-waste, plastic recycling or a hard look at the recycling industry in general. However, the increase of recyclable waste still making its way into landfill is the […]
Which Data Science Platform is Best? The Challenges of Explainable ML and AI
Recently, I have finished a project working on testing Machine Learning algorithm performances in different data science platforms with an explicit focus on explainability. In this post, I shall describe some of the criteria and the platforms that were used in this project. In the era of the internet where vast amounts of data are […]
Five ways GDPR will drive innovation
By Brian Hills, Head of Data at The Data Lab — In 1998 there was no Google, Facebook or Twitter, no mobile internet, no Big Data. Yet this period was the last major update to data protection regulation in Europe. Since that time, the internet economy has become an integral part in all of our […]
The Search for Big Data and Data Science
Guest blog post by Brian Rutherford, Co-founding Director of Eyecademy The first thing that struck me, sitting in the conference room three stories up in the New York Marriot, was how mature Data science and Big Data was in the US. I’d been following Big Data and Data Science for the past two years but […]
Can a Computer Understand ‘Love’?
Guest blog post by Douglas McGarrie, CTO IBM Scotland. The US Open Tennis Championships have just started. IBM CTO for Scotland, Douglas McGarrie, discusses some of the things IBM is doing with data and technology in tennis… and in particular, how to answer the question, ‘Can a Computer Understand Love?’ — Like many, I’ll be […]
Beauty and the beast. The changing face of Business Intelligence
Guest blog post by Gordon Laing, Author at Barrachd. The story is timeless. A hideous hero, shunned and forgotten by society; that is until a brave act reminds us that beauty is more than skin deep. To gasps of horror, our hero wins the heart of the love-interest, saves the day, etc etc. The end. […]