The Data Lab’s mission is to generate economic and social value to Scotland through the application of data science. We will deliver this through a combination of collaborative innovation projects, facilitation of skills development and community building across universities, industry and the public sector. One of the key activities of the Data Lab’s education remit […]
News & Podcasts
The Data Lab welcomes 8 new team members
It’s busy times for The Data Lab. Following the appointment of Gillian Docherty as CEO back in June; we have been working hard to deliver benefits to the Scottish Data Science community. In the past few months, we have engaged with over 80 companies and presented at key data events, and we have exciting plans […]
Insights from Big Data Conference in Boston
Author: Jude Mc Corry Head of Business Development at The Data Lab Week two of my new Job as Head of Business Development at the Data Lab and I was “shipped” off to Boston to attend the Big Data Conference and also attend meetings with MIT Sloan, The Innovation Institute at Masstech and Massachuesetts […]
The Rise of the Scooter
Author: Roman Popat, Data Scientist, The Data Lab I used to walk to school, right past the old man with the huge German shepherd. Depending on how brave if felt, I crossed the road to get past that particular fence. I imagine that every child’s journey to school is an adventure of sorts. How do […]
The Data Lab welcomes Gillian Docherty as our new CEO
On behalf of The Data Lab, I am delighted to announce that Gillian Docherty has been appointed as our Chief Executive Officer, with effect from 1 June 2015. Over the last few months, we have made great progress in establishing The Data Lab under the guidance of Dave Clark, who held the position of interim […]
Funding opportunity to attend Strata Hadoop “Make Data Work” Conference in San Jose (USA), February 2015
The Data Lab in collaboration with Scottish Development International is supporting a limited number of places to attend the Strata Hadoop Make Data Work Conference in San Jose, CA (USA), taking place on 17 to 20 February 2015. The Strata Hadoop Conference in San Jose is where big data’s most influential decision makers, architects, developers, […]
Need an academic partner for a project? SICSA can help
Guest blog from Steven Kendrick, Executive Officer at the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA). — SICSA is an SFC funded research pool, whose goal is to develop Scotland’s research excellence in Informatics and Computing Science by supporting collaboration among its members and exchange of expertise with the private and public sectors. SICSA recently […]
The origin of Star Wars characters’ names determined using Data Science
In preparation for the new Star Wars movie premier, Richard and Roman, the Data Scientists at The Data Lab, have analysed several hundred characters from the Star Wars films and associated series’ to determine from which language each name is most likely to have come. A list of over 500 names was taken from Wikipedia […]
Technology innovation in the Financial Services sector
Big data represents one of the biggest technical trends, challenges and opportunities facing the data-central banking and financial services sector to which data and its manipulation and management are central. Generating business value from how actionable data is captured, stored, processed, analysed and utilised within the business (including front, back and mid-offices) remains a critical […]
The Data Lab is growing, and it’s open for business
The first quarter of 2015 has been a busy one for The Data Lab! The first collaborative projects have kicked off, with a growing list of potential new projects on the pipeline. We are also busy preparing for The Data Lab MSc starting in September. The MSc will be delivered by Robert Gordon University, The […]