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 […]
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Understanding Customer Behaviour Using Uplift Modelling
Guest technical blog by Garry McFarlane, Senior Analyst and Dr. Paul van Loon, Head of Analytics, both at Forecast. Garry and Paul were scheduled to speak at DataTech20, and have kindly presented us with this blog instead. Enjoy. What is uplift modelling? Targeted marketing is so commonplace, nearly synonymous to online marketing, that consumers […]
A quick start guide to creating a successful online course
After 2 years of running workshops on the value of data, our Executive Education Advisor Craig Paterson wanted to develop a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in order to reach more people across the globe. After 2 years of running data workshops, how hard could developing an online course with a global reach be? Answer: […]
Cancer Innovation Challenge – Episode 1/4 – An Introduction
The Cancer Innovation Challenge is a £1M project funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) to encourage Innovation Centres in Scotland to work in partnership to help Scotland become a world leading carer for people with cancer through open innovation funding calls for data science solutions. We have decided to run a series of episodes […]
We created our first MOOC and people liked it
Our Executive Education Advisor Craig Paterson talks about our new free online learning course, Driving Value from Data. This is the perfect opportunity to try this course while we’re all staying at home! Sign up now for the current course run. (For some helpful advice from Craig about designing your own online learning course, check […]
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 […]
Working from home, a silver lining and some links for you
Blog by Gina Finch, The Data Lab At The Data Lab, it’s been quite an adjustment to have everybody working from home full time, for the foreseeable. We’ve been really well supported in the transition, making good use of tools such as Slack and Team for staying in touch. Having daily chats where we all […]
DataIQ 100 2020 list recognises the achievements of Gillian Docherty & Alex Hutchison
We’re delighted that both our CEO Gillian Docherty OBE and the Data for Children lead Alex Hutchison have been included in the DataIQ 100 list of the most influential people in data and analytics. DataIQ put together a highly regarded ‘power list’ of the most influential data and analytics practitioners in UK organisations from the […]
Royal Bank of Scotland – Skills and Data Science
We caught up with some of the team involved in the skills and data science side of Royal Bank of Scotland in our latest episode. RBS is at the forefront of the banking world and have jumped at the opportunity presented by data science. We learn from their experiences in what it takes to pull […]
What schools can do to close ‘bleak’ Stem gender gap
Guest blog by Toni Scullion, Secondary Teacher and founder of DressCode Girls are the ‘greatest untapped population of Stem professionals’ – but teacher Toni Scullion has ideas for changing mindsets The number of young girls studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) subjects – particularly computing science – is falling in schools in Scotland. So […]