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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
• 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
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.
Open for Business hap://www.thedatalab.com/apply-‐for-‐funding
The ISO Open Systems Interconnec8on Model
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.
Slide #2/2: The Internet Minute
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
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).
Data Unicorns
Can Scotland Change the World? (again)
Thomas Telford David Hume James Waa James Huaon Adam Smith
General Purpose Technologies
• 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’
www.thedatalab.com @datalabscotland
Andrew Mitchell Business Development
+44(0)7793111386 [email protected]
@roomitchell