The Data Lab - Value from Data

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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  andrew.mitchell@thedatalab.com  

@roomitchell