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 […]
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Embracing the use of data …
Steph Wright of Cancer Innovation Challenge believes there’s no end to the potential for data to improve health and social care for all. A version of this was originally published as an Opinion Piece for the ALLIANCE website on 21 August 2018. Data, data everywhere…. We are told that our lives today generate more data […]
Emotech’s Olly the robot – with personality!
We’re very excited about the latest innovative collaboration made possible by The Data Lab: Emotech’s Olly the robot. The Data Lab funded 50% of the project research costs, enabling the tie-up with Heriot-Watt University’s Interaction Lab and Natural Language Processing (NLP) Lab, led by Dr Liu and Dr Rieser. This collaboration allowed research to be undertaken […]
Canon Medical Research receives £140k to develop AI-powered cancer assessment prototype
Canon Medical Research Europe has been awarded £140,000 to develop a prototype that combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and medical imaging technology to improve assessment for one of the most difficult cancers to manage, Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM). The Cancer Innovation Challenge aims to inspire novel data and technology innovations to help Scotland become a world […]
Life as one of The Data Lab’s MSc students
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 […]
Fit Homes Project Wins “Connect Digital Health & Care Award” At Holyrood’s Connect ICT Awards
Last Wednesday saw a gathering of public sector leaders descend upon Edinburgh to meet, network and award some of the amazing achievements and projects executed right across Scotland from the past year. This is, of course, the Holyrood Magazine Tech Connect ICT awards. Conceived in 2013 to spotlight various public-sector projects that were largely going […]
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 […]
Gillian Docherty wins UK Digital Leader of the Year Award 2018
We’re really proud to announce that our CEO, Gillian Docherty, won at the UK Digital Leaders 100 Awards 2018! The Digital Leaders 100 List launched in 2013 and has become the premier list identifying individuals and teams leading Digital Transformation in the UK. The independent list recognises 100 people and organisations across the UK who […]
Scotland retains the top spot in the UK, outside of London, for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) attractiveness
The recent publication of EY’s annual Attractiveness Survey has revealed the exciting news that Scotland, for the third year running, has retained the top spot in the UK, outside of London, for FDI R&D projects. Almost a quarter of all inward investor R&D projects coming into the UK chose to innovate in Scotland, representing a […]
Exploring transport routes, journey characteristics and postcode networks using R Shiny
Hi all, Recently I’ve finished work on a project intended to visualise the traffic flow within a subsidised transport service, operated by a Scottish council. This visualisation needed to display variations in traffic flow conditional on factors such as the time of day, day of the week, journey purpose, as well as other criteria. The […]