Who is a Data Scientist? Are they statisticians who have a solid understanding of data and modeling, and love commenting on the shape of bell curves? Are they scientists, who can design experiments and test hypothesis? Are they programmers who eat code for lunch and can process vast amounts of data in their sleep? Or […]
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World class data science ‘Boot Camp’ launched in UK
We are delighted to launch the first Data Lab professional development boot camp in collaboration with The Data Incubator, a leading US data science training organisation led by Michael Li, a former NASA analyst whose US-based courses are ‘harder to get into than Harvard’. Scotland’s first ever Data ‘Boot Camp’ will be delivered this September […]
Reflections on a Successful Learning Journey to New York
During the first week of December The Data Lab and Scottish Development International (SDI) hosted a very successful and enjoyable trip to New York with 5 Scottish Data related businesses who attended the Chief Data Officer Summit and visited companies like IBM Watson, Dataminr, Cognito, The New York Tech Alliance and UNICEF. We had the […]
A much better way to visualise data: NULLMIGHTY
Guest post by Astrid Michelsen, Client Relations Specialist at nullmighty We live in a world of visualisation. There is so much information we share we need to adapt our time schedule, our devices, and our relationships to adequately absorb all this amount of information. Data visualisation is a relatively new solution for this collection […]
Learning Journey: Strata + Hadoop San Jose, March 2017
After the success of last year’s visit to San Jose, The Data Lab in collaboration with Scottish Development International (SDI) are delighted to support a limited number of places to attend the Strata + Hadoop World: Make Data Work Conference in San Jose, California taking place from 13 to 16 March 2017. Passes for the […]
The Data Lab welcomes 90 future Data Scientists at the 2016/17 MSc launch event
On Saturday 8th October, we were delighted to welcome our 90 new Data Science students at The Data Lab MSc 2016/17 launch event. It was a great day full of networking opportunities, insightful presentations and group activities. The Data Lab MSc 2015/16 awards were also announced at the event, recognising the best student and best […]
Where to Study Data Science in Scotland?
To help narrow down the plethora of Data Science and related MSc and BSc courses in Scotland, we have created a simple web application that details what each course has to offer. What is it? Our web application allows you to search for a specific degree by the modules and programming languages that are taught. […]
What Joe Strummer can teach Data Scientists
Guest post by Eleni Kotzampasaki, Analytics Team Lead at Aquila Insight At Aquila Insight we work closely with clients to understand their business questions, use advanced analytics and technology to answer these issues through data and communicate back how the resulting insights can be transformed into action. As a data scientist, I am passionate about […]
A Look at Data on Fruit and Veg Prices
Author: Roman Popat, Data Scientist, The Data Lab. Key Points Ever wondered when is the best time in the season to buy certain products? We examined a dataset from DEFRA on wholesale prices of fruit and veg. We applied a technique called ‘seasonal trend decomposition’. When buying Strawberries (and anything in the table below), pay […]
The Data Lab presents innovative visualisation experiment for Big Data Scotland 2015
We have been programmed to engage, analyse and communicate data in 2D, limited to the confines of the rectanglular world of our devices, monitors and projectors. What if we were to break those boundaries, place ourselves within the data and interact with it: could we gain new insight, could we create new emotional responses? In […]