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Data Innovation.AI: Your building designs – a unique source of data to fight COVID-19 using Decision Intelligence

2nd December 2020

Your building designs – a unique source of data to fight COVID-19 using Decision Intelligence By Robert Walker, Chief Advocacy Officer of Data Innovation.AI Ltd. Humans excel at causal reasoning, however our “neurological machinery” has limitations especially when trying to make decisions in situations of elevated risk, complexity and uncertainty: in these circumstances we resort

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Launch of new data upskilling scheme for the city region

30th November 2020

Data Skills for Work have just launched a new Data Skills Credits upskilling fund for employers Are you looking to upskill your staff? Their small grants of between £500 and £5,000 will help future proof your workforce by ensuring your staff have the tools, skills and confidence to work efficiently with data – whether understanding

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Creative Informatics funding opportunities in Edinburgh and SE Scotland

30th November 2020

Creative Informatics funding opportunities for the creative industries in Edinburgh and South East Scotland – applications open now!        Creative Informatics provides funding and development opportunities to creative individuals and organisations that would like develop new products, businesses and experiences using data. If you’re looking to power new ideas in your organisation, develop a creative product

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Sea Spyder & TORCH : An intuitive platform for the Global Whisky Market

26th November 2020

After spotting a gap in the Premium Spirits sector, the Sea Spyder team set out to build a dashboard that companies could make high value decisions with. Their aim is to offer an intuitive platform with actionable insights, allowing users to tap into data that helps them answer important industry questions. Following multiple entrepreneur programs

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Motivated data students seek organisations with real life data problems

26th November 2020

We have 160 students studying a range of MSc courses in AI, data science and data engineering, including in health and social science domains, at universities across Scotland. We’re looking for organisations with ideas for short 8-12 week data science projects so our students can put their technical skills to work in the real world.

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MSc Placement Programme Success Stories: Ecaterina Vidrascu

MSc Placement Programme Success Stories: Ecaterina Vidrascu

25th November 2020

Ecaterina Vidrascu joined the Data Lab MSc placement programme in May 2020, while undertaking her course in Data Science at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University (RGU).  She did her placement as an Alexa Skill Developer at TL Tech – Smart Home Solutions. It was so successful that TL Tech offered her a permanent position and she

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Welcoming our new MSc students in a year like no other

17th November 2020

Our new cohort of data talent was given the warmest virtual welcome On Wednesday 28 October, we welcomed the year of 2020-21 onto The Data Lab MSc Programme.  In a year like no other, in a global COVID pandemic, ensuring that this cohort of new data talent gets the maximum from our programme is more

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The Data Lab MSc Programme Funding Call for 2021-22 

16th November 2020

Scottish Universities – apply for course funding The Data Lab MSc is a collaborative programme between The Data Lab, Scottish Universities and industry partners, which aims to develop talented data scientists and engineers to support the Scottish economy. This call is open to Scottish Universities to apply to receive £6000 per student to cover MSc

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