Stephanie Hare is a researcher and broadcaster focusing on technology, politics and history. Selected as a part of the landmark BBC Expert Women initiative, she shares insights on television and radio. She also has a regular radio column that goes out on BBC World Service World Business Report and BBC Radio 4 Business Daily. This […]
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Fantastic visit with our Scottish delegation to OTC, Houston
This is the first year that the Data Lab have taken a group of Scottish companies to OTC in Houston; we had heard lots of great things about it before and decided to take the jump. We were so impressed, we can safely say it will become one of the regular events on our yearly […]
£1 million milestone reached for Scottish Digital Development Loan
Picture left to right : Stuart Yuill DSL , Andrew Kinsler SMS , Kate Forbes MSP , Liz McCutcheon LESL £50,000 loan helps Aberdeen based oil & gas business increase digital capabilities to support international development The Scottish Government’s Digital Development Loan fund has awarded £1m to Scottish SMEs less than a year since its […]
Using Shiny for interactive displays of health data: The Scottish Burden of Diseases
The Accelerator programme run by The Data Lab between 19 April 2018 – 06 September 2018 was a Scottish Government collaborative project, open to employees of the Scottish Government, the Information Services Division, the National Records of Scotland and Registers of Scotland. Employees applying to take part had a background in statistics, economics, operational research and social […]
John Mertic, Director of Program Management, Linux Foundation
John Mertic is the Director of Program Management for The Linux Foundation. Under his leadership, he has helped ODPi, R Consortium, and Open Mainframe Project accelerate open source innovation and transform industries. John has an open source career spanning two decades, both as a contributor to projects such as SugarCRM and PHP, and in open […]
Four tips for creating interactive visualisations with Shiny
I’ve recently presented a toy Shiny app at the Edinburgh Data Visualization Meetup to demonstrate how Shiny can be used to explore data interactively. In my code-assisted walkthrough, I began by discussing the data used: a set of records detailing customer purchases made on Black Friday (i.e., each customer was given a unique ID, which was repeated […]
140 year old Scottish jam maker secures Digital Development Loan to accelerate business growth
A 140 year old Scottish jam and chocolate coatings manufacturer is looking to the future following the maximum award of the Digital Development Loan from the Scottish Government’s new £36m Digital Growth Fund initiative. Carluke based R&W Scott, which also makes other premium products for the food industry including sauces, speciality icings and confectionery fillings, […]
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 […]
Liberty Vittert, Associate Editor, Harvard Data Science Review
Joanna McKenzie sits down with Liberty Vittert in this edition of The Data Lab’s podcast. Liberty is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and will be a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard University in the Department of Statistics beginning summer of 2019. She is a graduate of MIT as well […]
Christopher Wylie, Whistleblower
We kick off the Data Summit series of podcasts with the enigmatic Christopher Wylie. The New Yorker calls him “a pink-haired, nose-ringed oracle sent from the future”. Best known for his role in setting up – and then taking down – the cyberwarfare firm Cambridge Analytica, Chris has been listed in TIME100 Most Influential People in […]