We are delighted that our interim CEO Brian Hills is in the DataIQ 100 most influential people in data! The DataIQ 100 profiles the most important and influential people in data-driven businesses and the innovators who support them. It also recognises key influencers that have a bearing on the data industry. What key skills have […]
Culture & Values
Celebrating International Women’s Day – an opportunity to show our support for women
In honour of International Women’s Day, our Marketing and Communications Manager, Alison Orr interviewed our Head of Skills, Heather Thomson about her career journey and what she has learned along the way. As the Head of Skills at The Data Lab, Heather Thomson manages one of the largest teams in the organisation and has recently […]
Brian Hills takes up Interim CEO role at The Data Lab
Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, The Data Lab, has a new Interim CEO at the helm. Brian Hills will be responsible for leading the 50+ strong team, driving the growth of AI and data science skills across the academic and business community in Scotland. In addition, Heather Thomson, Head of Skills has joined […]
Gillian Docherty OBE to step down as CEO of The Data Lab
Gillian Docherty OBE is leaving The Data Lab after six years in the role and current Deputy CEO, Brian Hills will assume the role of Interim CEO. The recruitment process for a new CEO has begun. Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, The Data Lab, has today announced that Gillian Docherty OBE, CEO of […]
Joanna McKenzie and Ellen Friedman in Conversation
Joanna McKenzie – Principle Data Scientist at The Data Lab – talks to Ellen Friedman about their journeys through the world of data and what being a data scientist means today. Ellen Friedman, Principal Technologist for HPE Ezmeral at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an international speaker, author and scientist, with a doctorate in biochemistry from […]
The Data Lab appoints former Accenture lead as chair
Former Accenture Scotland MD and founder of business growth platform Alba Arete, Les Bayne, named as new chair of The Data Lab. Replaces Mark Hunter whose three-year tenure in the role recently came to an end. Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, The Data Lab, has today announced that Les Bayne will assume the […]
Companies That Care Day: 12 happy ways TDL are motivating the team behind the scenes
To say that the last 12 months have been hard on our team would be an understatement. Like so many others, they’ve had to adapt to an entirely new way of working; face-to-face meetings swapped for Zoom calls, morning trips to the office exchanged for ‘fake commutes’, and impromptu workplace chit-chat replaced by office social […]
A Day In The Life…Marketing Team
John Callagy works as a Marketing & Communications Offer in the Marketing team. Here he writes about what a typical day looks like for him – if there is such a thing! “No two days are the same at The Data Lab”. A phrase that was uttered to me at the start of my journey […]
Working from home, a silver lining and some links for you
Blog by Gina Finch, The Data Lab At The Data Lab, it’s been quite an adjustment to have everybody working from home full time, for the foreseeable. We’ve been really well supported in the transition, making good use of tools such as Slack and Team for staying in touch. Having daily chats where we all […]
DataIQ 100 2020 list recognises the achievements of Gillian Docherty & Alex Hutchison
We’re delighted that both our CEO Gillian Docherty OBE and the Data for Children lead Alex Hutchison have been included in the DataIQ 100 list of the most influential people in data and analytics. DataIQ put together a highly regarded ‘power list’ of the most influential data and analytics practitioners in UK organisations from the […]