Karen O’Hanlan, our Business Development Executive based in Inverness, reflects on the successes of the first year working in the Inverness Hub The Data Lab’s Inverness Hub has now been up and running for over a year. Much of my focus over this first 12 months has been around community building, networking and creating new […]
Thought Leadership
Can we completely automate forecasting for industry?
Guest blog by Nick Finch, CTO at DataPA Ltd We’re delighted to be able to bring you a technical blog from another of our speakers who would have been speaking at DataTech20 back in March. To do any sort of business planning, you need forecasting. Our reason for existing is to help our customers […]
Learning how to apply data science and AI skills to real life business problems
We fought hard to make sure our MSc students didn’t miss out on their Innovation Week this year – so we rose to the challenge and achieved something unique by delivering it entirely online. The MSc students from 12 universities across Scotland formed virtual teams, applying data science and AI skills to solve a real-life […]
How can a charity quantify the impact it is having?
Read our latest Case Study: Coming full Circle – how data can help charities measure success Circle is a charity working with families to provide tailored support designed to help children deal with social injustice, poverty and health inequalities. It provides one-to-one support sessions to families affected by drugs and alcohol, imprisonment and other social issues, […]
Why practical data analytics is still so painful…and how we can help
Guest blog by Professor Chris Williams, University of Edinburgh.Chris was due to speak at DataTech20, which was unfortunately cancelled due to COVID-19. This article is based on the presentation that was prepared for DataTech20 in Glasgow and The Turing Present: AI UK in London, both of which were due to be held in March 2020. […]
The best STEM inspiration – speaking to a real life astronaut
We need to do more to inspire our children from an early age to develop an interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) subjects to improve the number of young people with the qualifications and interest to consider pursuing a job in a STEM field. In an era when technical and scientific skills are […]
Managing data projects
Our Principal Data Scientist, Joanna McKenzie, gives her thoughts on how to manage data projects and offers the opportunity to learn more in her video, “Managing Data Projects”. Project management in data doesn’t really have the same glamour as “data scientist”, but the longer I’ve worked with data the more important project management skills have […]
Find out how to inject some data science creativity into your organisation
The Data Lab’s MSc placement programme is open for any Scottish organisation looking to inject state of the art data science technologies, creativity and enthusiasm into your organisation. Through our partners MBN Academy, we can find you a student to work on a data science project. The students will get the opportunity to apply their […]
Utilising AI techniques to tackle Scotland’s, and the World’s, climate emergency
Scottish Enterprise, in collaboration with the Scottish Government, calls on innovative organisations to help solve the Climate Emergency by harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The specific focus of this competition is in the use of AI to enable or significantly enhance products or processes that help to mitigate factors contributing to the […]
Interactive Intelligence: Human-In-The-Loop Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning has captured a large share of academic and industry attention during recent years, both in terms of new capabilities and the implications to society. Many state-of-the-art techniques are able to provide important capabilities for different fields, yet we are far from creating artificial general intelligence. Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) is a branch […]