Almost £1m to help carry out real-world testing of some of the most innovative transportation technology in the world has been announced in Dundee. The city’s Mobility Innovation Living Laboratory (MILL) is looking for new products, services and business models that can be developed and trialled using the city as a test-bed. Part of a […]
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Leading Scottish organisations support DataFest18
Image above, L to R: Laurene de Peyrelongue, Merkle Aquila; Gillian Docherty, The Data Lab; Carol Sinclair, NHS NSS; Hugo D’Ulisse, SAS With one foot firmly in the door of 2018 we have our focus locked onto the remaining 6 weeks of preparation before DataFest18. However it is important for us to continually acknowledge those […]
Glasgow Science Centre developing new interactive exhibition on innovation
Glasgow Science Centre (GSC) has revealed that, in partnership with the Scottish Government sponsored Scottish Funding Council (SFC), it is on course to deliver its latest interactive exhibition which will focus on innovation. New interactive exhibition: Idea #59 Idea #59 will inspire the next generation of innovators, engineers and scientists by exploring AI, Big Data, […]
Roman Popat, Data Scientist and Co-Founder at Deep Miner
Today Roman Popat talks about his new venture Deep Miner, which helps sales teams to discover and better understand prospective customers.
WiDS Datathon between February 1 and 22, 2018
Stanford University ICME is excited to announce the WiDS Datathon, a new feature of the third Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference taking place on March 5, 2018. The WiDS Datathon seeks to encourage female data scientists to engage in social impact solutions using a predictive analytics challenge. Participants will analyze data and build machine […]
First group of speakers at Data Summit 18 announced
What an amazing line up, it’s going to be fascinating hearing what they have to say! These well regarded figures of the data science world have a wide array of experience and interests that they are going to share with us. Here is just a little introduction to each of them: Dr Hannah Fry: Mathematician, […]
The power of data transformation by John Brodie of Merkle Aquila, a DataFest18 sponsor
John Brodie, the co-founder of Merkle Aquila, who will be sponsors of DataFest18, explains that there are some amazing examples of businesses that have used data analytics to transform the way they operated, and he brings us two great stories of data transformation in action. He surprises us by looking back to 1948 for one […]
Data for Marine Science & Technology – Industrial Doctorate Funding Call 2018
The Data Lab in collaboration with the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS) is supporting Industrial Doctorate projects. Funding for up to 50% of the project cost will be provided for up to three and a half years, with the remainder to be matched by an industry, sector or voluntary sector partner. […]
Deep Learning Collaboration between N-Sea and University of Strathclyde
Integrated subsea service provider, N-Sea, and the University of Strathclyde’s Institute of Sensors Signals and Communications at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, have developed a deep learning video annotation model for automatic eventing of subsea survey video. The project is supported by The Data Lab Innovation Centre with the collaboration combining the state-of-the-art […]
Data Warrior Erin Akred of Datakind, will be speaking at DataFest 2018
We are very much looking forward to hearing what our latest speaker has to say at DataFest 2018. Erin Akred of DataKind, whose mission is harnessing the power of data science in the service of humanity, will be discussing data philanthropy in action. DataKind does this by bringing together teams of skilled volunteers with not-for-profits […]