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Be a part of The Data Lab MSc
The Data Lab MSc is a collaborative effort between Robert Gordon University, The University of Dundee, The University of Stirling and The Data Lab. Through this collaboration, each university has...
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The Data Lab teams up with e-Placement Scotland to deliver MSc Placements
These courses prepare students for a career in Data Science, which could include a variety of roles in a broad range of industry sectors such as digital technologies, energy and utilities, financial...
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Register your interest to be a part of The Data Lab PhD Programme
PhD fundingThe Data Lab will support up to three new industrially relevant PhD programmes to be commenced before the end of January 2016. Funding for up to 50% of the PhD cost will be provided, with...
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Securing the Skills for the Data Revolution
I fell into data by chance. Growing up in the Highlands, I moved to the bright lights of Aberdeen to study computing and came out the other side as a graduate software engineer at Hewlett Packard. I...
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Interview with Michael Young, CEO of MBN Solutions
Hi Michael, a lot has been written on the global shortage of talent in data and you are operating in this space. Sounds like a fantastic opportunity, how is your business developing?You’re quite right...
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Need an academic partner for a project? SICSA can help
SICSA represents 14 Computer Science Schools and departments across Scotland, which equates to around 500 research and teaching staff, 300 Post-Doctoral Research assistants; and 800 PhD research...
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The Data Lab MSc welcomes students in official launch event
The Data Lab MSc has been developed with the goal to produce industry ready data scientists, who also have relevant business and scientific knowledge to deliver valuable insights and tangible results....
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Funding opportunity to attend international events
Events: More information on each of the events, including speakers, agenda and other activities can be found in the following links:Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit - “Making Your Data...
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“Beyond Big Data” Week at The Data Lab
Activities began on Tuesday, when Michael Li, founder of The Data Incubator in New York. The Data Incubator runs a fellowship identifying the top 2% of STEM PhDs looking to work with partner companies,...
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Meet the IoT Boost winners
The event was organised by CENSIS, in collaboration with The Data Lab and Informatics Ventures for IoTUK and there was a great atmosphere over the two days. We’ve had excellent feedback from our...
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Inspiring young women for a future in STEM
Data Scientist has been lauded as the sexiest job of the 21st Century. On IWD, The Data Lab had the chance to engage with schoolgirls to inspire them to raise their aspirations for a career in data...
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The Data Lab's Data Science Summer School
The programmeThe summer school will be delivered by international instructors with deep industry experience who have a track record of corporate training and partnership at leading multinational firms...
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Outcomes of the Scottish Delegation visit to Singapore
The Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit is the largest gathering of top international business executives leading Big Data and Analytics initiatives in Asia Pacific. This year the conference...
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Data Talent Scotland a Success
Highlighting Scotland’s exceptional data science ecosystem, the unique event gave the data scientists of the future the chance to hear from the UK’s leading data innovators, with speakers from...
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World class data science ‘Boot Camp’ launched in UK
The boot camp will be an intensive three week programme run during September in Edinburgh. Each week will cover a different module in the following areas:Introduction to data science: Development and...
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Thoughts and highlights from Strata+Hadoop, San Jose 2016
Among my favourite findings was that while computer vision with deep neural networks has made leaps and bounds, it’s still constrained by having a large, human-annotated training set of images. This...
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The Data Lab MSc doubles in size for 2016/17
This year, we were able to secure further funding, which allows us to offer 90 places accross 9 programmes in 7 Scottish universities. This means the 2016/17 cohort will more than double last year's...
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e-Placement Scotland about to reach 1500 placements
The Data Lab had a great experience working with e-Placement Scotland to organise the placements for The Data Lab MSc programme. As part of their course, students have the opportunity to undertake a...
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Summer Internship Stories at The Data Lab
Here are their stories: Funding InternAmy Ramsay Born and bred in Edinburgh, I fled the nest to study Psychology and Biology at the University of St Andrews, where I am entering my final year....
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“Beyond Big Data” Week at The Data Lab
Activities began on Tuesday, when Michael Li, founder of The Data Incubator in New York. The Data Incubator runs a fellowship identifying the top 2% of STEM PhDs looking to work with partner companies,...
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