Predictive Maintenance is a popular application of predictive analytics that can help businesses in several industries achieve high asset utilisation and savings in operational costs. Predictive Maintenance (PdM) directly monitors the condition and performance of assets during normal operation to reduce the likelihood of failures. It seeks to predict when maintenance is required; maximising the lifespan of an […]
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Joanna Bryson, Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin
Joanna J. Bryson is a transdisciplinary researcher on the structure and dynamics of human- and animal-like intelligence. Her research covers topics ranging from artificial intelligence, through autonomy and robot ethics, and on to human cooperation. Her work has appeared in venues ranging from a reddit to Science.Bryson’s first degree is in Behavioural Science (non-clinical psychology) […]
ONE Tech Hub launched to catalyse digital capacity and capability in North East
ONE Tech Hub, the new home for the digital tech and entrepreneurship community in the North East of Scotland, is now open after a £1.5 million investment to accelerate digital tech business growth and enhance the wider entrepreneurial ecosystem. Private sector economic development body Opportunity North East (ONE) has led the development of ONE Tech […]
Understanding Data Layers For Your Business
Guest blog by Yard If you work in the world of digital, it’s likely you’re familiar with the term ‘data layer’, but perhaps you’re wondering what exactly it means. To put it simply, data layers make data collection more efficient and reliable, compiling all data in one place to make it easier to understand website usage […]
Stephanie Hare, Researcher and Broadcaster
Stephanie Hare is a researcher and broadcaster focusing on technology, politics and history. Selected as a part of the landmark BBC Expert Women initiative, she shares insights on television and radio. She also has a regular radio column that goes out on BBC World Service World Business Report and BBC Radio 4 Business Daily. This […]
Fantastic visit with our Scottish delegation to OTC, Houston
This is the first year that the Data Lab have taken a group of Scottish companies to OTC in Houston; we had heard lots of great things about it before and decided to take the jump. We were so impressed, we can safely say it will become one of the regular events on our yearly […]
£1 million milestone reached for Scottish Digital Development Loan
Picture left to right : Stuart Yuill DSL , Andrew Kinsler SMS , Kate Forbes MSP , Liz McCutcheon LESL £50,000 loan helps Aberdeen based oil & gas business increase digital capabilities to support international development The Scottish Government’s Digital Development Loan fund has awarded £1m to Scottish SMEs less than a year since its […]
Using Shiny for interactive displays of health data: The Scottish Burden of Diseases
The Accelerator programme run by The Data Lab between 19 April 2018 – 06 September 2018 was a Scottish Government collaborative project, open to employees of the Scottish Government, the Information Services Division, the National Records of Scotland and Registers of Scotland. Employees applying to take part had a background in statistics, economics, operational research and social […]
John Mertic, Director of Program Management, Linux Foundation
John Mertic is the Director of Program Management for The Linux Foundation. Under his leadership, he has helped ODPi, R Consortium, and Open Mainframe Project accelerate open source innovation and transform industries. John has an open source career spanning two decades, both as a contributor to projects such as SugarCRM and PHP, and in open […]
Four tips for creating interactive visualisations with Shiny
I’ve recently presented a toy Shiny app at the Edinburgh Data Visualization Meetup to demonstrate how Shiny can be used to explore data interactively. In my code-assisted walkthrough, I began by discussing the data used: a set of records detailing customer purchases made on Black Friday (i.e., each customer was given a unique ID, which was repeated […]