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 […]
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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.
Announcing the latest set of speakers at DataFest18
We’ve already announced an amazing lineup of inspirational speakers we’re looking forward to seeing at DataFest in 3 weeks. Now, we have some very exciting new additions to share with you – the final few keynote speakers across both Data Summit and Data Talent Scotland. These newest additions to DataFest are arguably some of the […]
Cash on the Table for Smart Mobility
Almost £1m to help carry out real-world testing of some of the most innovative transportation technology in the world has been announced in Dundee. The city’s Mobility Innovation Living Laboratory (MILL) is looking for new products, services and business models that can be developed and trialled using the city as a test-bed. Part of a […]
Leading Scottish organisations support DataFest18
Image above, L to R: Laurene de Peyrelongue, Merkle Aquila; Gillian Docherty, The Data Lab; Carol Sinclair, NHS NSS; Hugo D’Ulisse, SAS With one foot firmly in the door of 2018 we have our focus locked onto the remaining 6 weeks of preparation before DataFest18. However it is important for us to continually acknowledge those […]
Glasgow Science Centre developing new interactive exhibition on innovation
Glasgow Science Centre (GSC) has revealed that, in partnership with the Scottish Government sponsored Scottish Funding Council (SFC), it is on course to deliver its latest interactive exhibition which will focus on innovation. New interactive exhibition: Idea #59 Idea #59 will inspire the next generation of innovators, engineers and scientists by exploring AI, Big Data, […]
Roman Popat, Data Scientist and Co-Founder at Deep Miner
Today Roman Popat talks about his new venture Deep Miner, which helps sales teams to discover and better understand prospective customers.
WiDS Datathon between February 1 and 22, 2018
Stanford University ICME is excited to announce the WiDS Datathon, a new feature of the third Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference taking place on March 5, 2018. The WiDS Datathon seeks to encourage female data scientists to engage in social impact solutions using a predictive analytics challenge. Participants will analyze data and build machine […]
First group of speakers at Data Summit 18 announced
What an amazing line up, it’s going to be fascinating hearing what they have to say! These well regarded figures of the data science world have a wide array of experience and interests that they are going to share with us. Here is just a little introduction to each of them: Dr Hannah Fry: Mathematician, […]