Today we welcome #1 Data Influencer Kirk Borne, who talks about the seven “C’s” of data science, applying learnings taken from air traffic safety to healthcare, the “internet of context”, and much much more!
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Read our latest case study: FITsense
The FIT Home initiative, pioneered by the Albyn Housing Society, aims to develop housing solutions to enable people to live independently for longer and provide a secure environment for them to live in. The FIT Home project aims to reduce pressure on public services and resources, by predicting, and therefore preventing injury. The homes include […]
DataFest18: What a week!
After a bit of a long weekend reflecting (and recovering) on what went on last week, we couldn’t be happier with the second edition of DataFest. This year we went bigger, and it paid off. We learned from the inaugural DataFest17, listened to what people had to say, and accomplished another successful delivery of what […]
Read our latest case study: Ecometrica
Ecometrica: Mapping the water footprint of your crops Mapping the water footprint of your crops will soon be possible with Ecometrica’s new water footprint application. The Ecometrica water footprint application offers commercial clients an easy and intuitive solution to calculate their water footprint, by integrating readily available open satellite data and a process model. This […]
Introducing ‘Alteryx’ as a platform for Data Science
What is Alteryx, and why should I care? This guest blog entry was inspired by Richard’s recent post in which he observed that “it is always important to keep an eye on the tools we use as data scientists and forever be on the lookout for new and better ways of doing things.” Just as Python is […]
The Data Lab shortlisted for ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards 2018
ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards 2018 The Digital Technology Awards showcase excellence within the industry rewarding the innovation, expertise and ambition of businesses, large and small. It reveals the latest advances in digital technologies and rewards excellence. The Data Lab shortlisted again We are delighted to be shortlisted for the second year in a row in […]
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Last year I was asked to speak at an event for International Women’s day and I choose to speak about the book Hurrah for Gin about surviving being a working mother, wife, friend, daughter and just me! A lot has changed in the world in a year and I have been looking at the theme […]
Cancer Innovation Challenge launches the three successful Phase 1 Projects
Today the Cancer Innovation Challenge were proud to launch the three successful Phase 1 Projects for the Innovative data science solutions to improve cancer care and outcomes in Scotland SBRI competition. Projects from Canon Medical Research Europe, Jayex Technology and Sharpe Analytics were announced today at a launch event and stakeholder workshop in Edinburgh. Find […]
Keeping up to date with technical advances: Python versus Tableau for data visualisations
Python is great, but… Since taking up Python several years ago I’ve often thought of it as the Swiss Army Knife of programming languages. After successfully using it for webscraping, software development, number-crunching and data visualisation one achieves a certain level of comfort in knowing that, if you need to do it in code, you […]
Ewan Nicolson, Principal Data Scientist at Skyscanner
Employed by one of Scotland’s greatest tech successes, Ewan Nicolson talks about using the scientific method on data challenges within Skyscanner.