The Data Lab - Value from Data
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The document outlines The Data Lab's initiatives, including hiring for various roles and promoting collaborative innovation in data science across Scotland. It highlights projects spanning multiple industries and emphasizes the need to navigate the complexities of big data, such as volume, velocity, and security. Additionally, it discusses the historical evolution of computing technologies and the socio-economic implications of wealth distribution.
The Data Lab - Value from Data
- 2. Neil Logan Chair Lizzie Crawford Head of Ops Andrew Mitchell Business Development Brian Hills Head of Product Jim McCumesty Review Panel Chair Gillian Docherty CEO Cecilia Bouroncle MarComms Manolo Perez Finance & Admin We are hiring! Business Dev’ Lead Data ScienIst SoJware Engineers Data Analysts
- 3. • Open calls • Industry challenges • Strategic bids CollaboraIve InnovaIon • Workshops & conferences • Technical talks • Community sponsorship Community Building • Data Science MSc • PhD funding, partnering with industry • Online learning Nurturing Talent The Data Lab: Value from Data
- 4. Collabora8ve Innova8on • University ‘housed’ but industry led. • Three hubs: Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow. • Open for business with all of Scotland’s HEIs. • Industry-‐led collaboraIve R&D projects: • Consumer & Enterprise Digital. • Energy & UIliIes. • Financial Services. • Healthcare. • ‘DisrupIve’ projects (small-‐scale, £10k/£20k, and lean). • Medium-‐scale projects (£50k-‐£300k). • Larger-‐scale, longer-‐term projects.
- 5. Open for Business hap://www.thedatalab.com/apply-‐for-‐funding
- 6. The ISO Open Systems Interconnec8on Model
- 7. Obligatory Big Data Slide #1/2 Every day, we create 2.5 quinIllion bytes of data, so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.
- 8. Slide #2/2: The Internet Minute
- 9. How did we get here? Informa8cs/CompSci Waves & Trends • Mainframe • Minicomputer • WorkstaIon • Personal Computers • Mobile • Cloud • Machine Learning • Internet of Things • Moore’s Law • Metcalfe’s Law • Cheap Storage • Cheap Sensors • LocaIon Services • Smart Phones • Wearables • Wired and Wireless Everywhere
- 10. There’s more to data than size… Volume (the scale of data). Velocity (speed of change). Veracity (uncertainty of data). Variety (different forms of data). Vulnerability (security and privacy). Visualisa8on (and other forms of interacIon).
- 11. Data Unicorns
- 12. Can Scotland Change the World? (again) Thomas Telford David Hume James Waa James Huaon Adam Smith
- 15. • General Purpose Technologies • Food. • Transport. • Energy. • How we organise work and leisure. • Wealth creaIon and distribuIon: • £500k inc’ property = top 1%. • Poorest half own < 1% total wealth. • Richest 10% hold 87% global wealth. • Richest 1% own half global wealth. • 85 richest people = £1tn / 3.5% pop’
- 16. www.thedatalab.com @datalabscotland Andrew Mitchell Business Development +44(0)7793111386 andrew.mitchell@thedatalab.com @roomitchell