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
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
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
Blog by Karen O’Hanlon, our Business Development Executive, Inverness Hub This time last year as I was in the audience for the Executive Launch of DataFest19 in Inverness and hearing about the TDL’s 4th and newest Hub in Inverness. Twelve months later and I’m back! But this time, I’ve joined Kate Forbes MSP, Gillian Docherty and
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
By Gillian Docherty OBE, CEO of The Data Lab This time last week on Wednesday we had three calls through the day which culminated in the decision to cancel the remainder of DataFest20. We realised early on Wednesday morning that the momentum was shifting fast with COVID-19 and we felt it was only right that
Guest blog by John Alexander Wood, MSc in Artificial Intelligence at Aberdeen University During the summer I had a placement with Intelligent Plant. Their work involves the industrial internet of things, providing tools and techniques for the analysis of plant and machinery. The main insight that I had during my project, though not unique, was