A project that could transform the future homes and communities of three distinct Scottish neighbourhoods has won the annual Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) award for Best Partnership. Blackwood Housing & Care’s Peoplehood project was honoured for its innovative collaboration with nine non-housing partners, including the University of Edinburgh, imaging equipment specialist Canon Medical, car […]
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Biggest ever Data Summit signals new hope for data sector
The Data Lab’s annual flagship conference discussed the need to focus on building public trust in data and ensuring its ethical use. Speakers included science broadcaster Hannah Fry, NASA’s chief science data officer Kevin Murphy, global public health chair Professor Devi Sridhar and Tom Arthur MSP, Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth 600 […]
Business data course equips leaders to drive growth
With Scottish businesses handling and using more data than ever before, a ground-breaking course aimed at upskilling leaders to use data more effectively, is launching to help fill a growing skills gap among senior managers. A recent report by The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) found more than 80% of UK businesses […]
The age of the data pioneers
Our CEO Brian Hills spoke with The Scotsman about all things Data Fest, data innovations, technology and The Data Lab Community – highlighting some great initiatives at Trade In Space, Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre, BrightAct and more. When England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty and his famous Covid slides full of graphs […]
The Data Lab Academy launch event for the student class of 2022
On Wednesday 12th October, The Data Lab team headed over to Edinburgh’s beautiful Summerhall multi-arts building to host this year’s Data Lab Academy Launch event – a happy coincidence that it fell on the same week as World Student Day? Here’s what we got up to and what to expect for future events … What […]
The scariest data stories from across the world
Happy Halloween! Whilst everyone’s been running about getting their Instagram snaps in pumpkin patches, pretending they like those autumn spiced lattes (seriously, why are they THAT sweet?), and picking up fun-sized Mars bars for the kids, The Data Lab team have been reading up on true tales of horror … the scariest data stories from […]
The Data Lab Community turns 1!
September marks one year since we launched The Data Lab Community – a diverse online space where members from across sectors, industries, and geographies could come together to create positive economic and social impact using data and AI (for themselves, their organisations, and those around them.) Firstly, we’d like to extend an enormous thank you […]
NASA’s chief science data officer to headline Data Summit 2022
NASA’s chief science data officer Kevin Murphy is set to speak at a flagship two-day artificial intelligence and data conference in Edinburgh in November. He will talk to Data Summit delegates about NASA’s Earth System Observatory, which gathers huge amounts of data about our planet which will help guide efforts to monitor climate change, mitigate […]
Employability training Academy launched to tackle national tech staff shortages
The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI training, is expanding the content and reach of its industry-leading MSc programmes to include more specific employability skills training for students, to help address a worrying shortage of qualified workers across the Scottish tech sector. The new content, being offered to its MSc students via […]
Natural Power PhD develops power forecasting excellence
Natural Power has contributed to research that has resulted in a short-term (less than four hours) power forecasting system that demonstrates up to 20% improved forecast accuracy. The ability to accurately forecast minutes and hours ahead is essential for the continued growth of weather-dependent renewable energy generation, like wind and solar. Rosemary Tawn completed a […]