The Data Lab announces the kickoff of a pilot project involving Edinburgh Napier University, NHS National Services Scotland and industry collaborator Spiritus Development Limited intended to demonstrate the benefits of a blockchain-enabled assurance layer for tracking medical devices through their lifecycle. With funding support administered by The Data Lab on behalf of the Scottish Funding […]
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Invitation to Tender: Coordinate Industrial Placements in Scotland for up to 130 MSc Data Science students
The Data Lab has recently launched the third cohort of MSc programmes, which includes collaborations with 11 universities from across Scotland including Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling and the West of Scotland. As part of this collaborative programme, students get the opportunity to be part of Scottish Industry and gain hands-on experience by completing a […]
“Top Three” from Strata Data London 2017
The Data Lab recently sent representatives to the Strata Data Conference in London. This is the UK leg of one of the world’s largest data conference series, presented by O’Reilly and Cloudera. The event was held at the gargantuan ExCel London facility near City Airport, and attendees numbered into the thousands. The general structure for […]
Read our latest case study: Aggreko
Aggreko: Improving fleet reliability through data insight Glasgow-based Aggreko, Scotland’s 10th largest company, wanted to monitor and be able to predict and react to any potential generator maintenance issues to ensure it continues to deliver uninterrupted and reliable power to its global customers. The Data Lab partnered Aggreko with the University of Strathclyde who delivered […]
The Data Lab MSc Challenge Competition – Meet the winners!
The inaugural Data Lab MSc Challenge Competition came to an end on Sunday 21st May, after the final 48 hour hackathon and judging ceremony. The competition, which included three hack events during the academic year, brought all 90 students funded by The Data Lab’s MSc programme from seven Scottish universities together and challenged them to […]
Inaugural DataFest17 a success
Last week marked the inaugural DataFest17, the first festival of data innovation underlining Scotland’s strength within the ever growing global data landscape. Building up on the success of Data Talent Scoltand last year, we decided to go big this year. As an innovation centre, our mission is to innovate, to be bold, and to set […]
Learning Journey: Strata Data Conference, New York
The Data Lab, in collaboration with Scottish Development International (SDI), are delighted to support a limited number of places to attend the Strata Data Conference: Make Data Work in New York, taking place from 26 to 28 September 2017. Passes for the conference will be supplied by The Data Lab. Strata Data Conference is a […]
New job site targets Scotland’s booming digital technologies industry
A new free-to-use job site has been launched by FutureScot.com, targeting the growing digital technologies sector in Scotland. The industry is currently experiencing rapid growth; a recent survey by ScotlandIS found that 82% of Scotland’s digital technologies businesses expect sales to increase in 2017. 78% of firms forecast that they will hire more staff this […]
The Search for Big Data and Data Science
Guest blog post by Brian Rutherford, Co-founding Director of Eyecademy The first thing that struck me, sitting in the conference room three stories up in the New York Marriot, was how mature Data science and Big Data was in the US. I’d been following Big Data and Data Science for the past two years but […]
Urban Tide’s time with a Big Data MSc student
Guest blog post by Urban Tide We had the pleasure of spending the last few months with Big Data MSc student Christopher Lunny at Urban Tide HQ. During his time with us, Christopher did some really interesting things with Transport for London data and developed some incredible data vizualisations (more on that later.) Before he […]