Back for their 9th year, the ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards showcase excellence within the industry rewarding the innovation, expertise and ambition of businesses large and small – and the people who drive them. The Digital Tech Awards always attract fierce competition from all corners of our industry and provide an amazing opportunity to showcase your […]
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Cathy O Neil, Data Scientist and Author of “Weapons of Math Destruction”
Join Cathy O Neil and The Data Lab podcast newcomer, Joanna McKenzie in an informal discussion that weaves between Cathy’s latest book, responsibilities of data scientists, the point of algorithms and Star Trek. The podcast was recorded directly after Cathy’s keynote presentation at the launch of DataFest19.
Introducing Jared Lander, Keynote Speaker at DataTech19
Join us for DataTech19, Scotland’s first technical data science conference as part of DataFest The Data Lab is delighted to introduce a new event to the DataFest family: DataTech (14 March 2019, Edinburgh). This technical, one-day data science conference will cater to a diverse audience including analysts, developers, engineers and scientists from the public sector, […]
Introducing Jared Lander, Keynote Speaker at DataTech19
Join us for DataTech19, Scotland’s first technical data science conference as part of DataFest The Data Lab is delighted to introduce a new event to the DataFest family: DataTech (14 March 2019, Edinburgh). This technical, one-day data science conference will cater to a diverse audience including analysts, developers, engineers and scientists from the public sector, academia and industry. […]
Summer internships with The Data Lab: two MSc students share their experience
During the summer, two of The Data Lab MSc students spent their 3 month placements with us as Data Science interns, applying their newly gained academic experience to real world problems. They tell us a little about their journey to a career in data science and their experiences working with us. We’re delighted that they’ve […]
Learning Journey: meeting Thought Leaders in New York and attending Strata 2018
Two weeks ago we took a fantastic group of people from Scotland to New York to attend various meetings with Thought Leaders in the Data Science community in New York and also attend the Strata Meeting. The visit, like previous visits, was a roaring success, with plenty of learning, networking and lots and lots of […]
The Data Lab secures £13.5m Scottish Government funding
New funding awarded after Scotland’s place as a global data leader established during first funding phase. Scotland’s data innovation centre, The Data Lab, has secured up to £13.5m in new Scottish Government funding. The announcement follows the data innovation centre’s success during its first phase of activity, in which it established Scotland as an international […]
Getting to grips with messy data at the Scottish Funding Council
This summer, three students undertook work at the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) on datasets covering students at Scottish colleges and universities. This work was completed with the ‘Performance Measurement and Analysis’ team which looks at many aspects of university and college performance. All three students were from different academic backgrounds and had very different summer […]
An R-based App for Exploring Traffic Accidents in Scotland
Recently I discovered that the UK government collects detailed information about traffic accidents across the country that are being reported to the police. What’s even more interesting is that all these data are being uploaded and made publicly available on the government’s open data website. This dataset, being so rich, immediately caught my attention. I […]
My data science internship has been a whirlwind of experiences
Our Data Lab MSc student Rebecca Clancy has spent her internship working at Scottish Enterprise, using her newly acquired academic knowledge to solve some real life problems, and actively learning new methods, applications, software and other skills essential for life as a data scientist. Working at Scottish Enterprise has been, in a word, surreal. It […]