The Data LAB: An overview Darran Gardner, Business Development Executive (Glasgow Hub) @DataLabScotland
The Data Lab Mission Value: Create economic and social value for Scotland through the application of data science. Enablement: Facilitate value creation through funding and resources. The goal is not to make a profit or take IP. Market led: Operating in partnership with Industry, Public Sector and Academia.
Innovation Centres
Landscape Academia & related Industry Public sector Innovation Alan Turing Institute Industry Academia & related Innovation Public sector
Operating model Based in Edinburgh (EU, admin centre), Aberdeen (RGU) & Glasgow (GU). Financial Services, Government, Health, Oil & Gas, Online & Digital Will work with Industry, Public Sector and SICSA universities across Scotland.
Head of Business Development Head of Product Management The Data Lab Organisation CEO Gillian Docherty Head of Business Development Jude McCorry BDE Edinburgh Andrew Mitchell Marketing and Communications Cecilia Bouroncle Head of Operations Dave Fitch Project Manager Michelle Galea Head of Product Management Brian Hills PA Craig Skeldon Innovation Advisory Group Education Advisory Group Finance Controller Manolo Perez Legal and Contracts TBH BDE Aberdeen Duncan Hart BDE Glasgow Darran Gardner Lead Data Scientist Data Scientist Roman Popat Richard Carter HR (PT) Cheryl Stewart
Collaborative innovation Enablers Demand driven & open calls Industry & public sector challenges Strategic bids & IC collaboration Collaborative innovation Data Science MSc PhD funding, partnering with industry Online learning Skills and training Workshops & conferences Technical talks Community sponsorship Community building
Collaborative innovation Biz dev Workshops Feasibility Project www.thedatalab.com
Public Policy Data Challenge Prevention Citizen engagement Reducing Inequality www.thedatalab.com
The Data Lab: Value from Data We welcome “problem” or “challenge” owners from the private and public sectors to engage with The Data Lab We will fund projects and facilitate match funding (industry, SE, Innovate UK, EU, etc) to support academic engagement Quick-start research/ exploratory projects (<£20k) Medium-scale projects (~£50k) 3 to 6 months duration Large projects and strategic engagements (£50-200k+) Themed calls (e.g. FinTech in 2015) funding multiple projects Ultimately, we want to see economic and social impact
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) Visualisation (and other forms of interaction)
What makes a good big data project? Question (scoping to clearly define) Data Capture (quantity, quality, real time v batch, security / anonymity) Data Model (the how, e.g. Hadoop) Analyse (the process) Inform (the output)
What makes a good big data project? Delivery team / skills Right mix/experience: BD architectures, BD techniques (stats/ maths/ machine learning), programming, soft skills Scale / integration/ roll-out / commercialisation
What makes a ‘bad’ big data project? Asking the wrong questions Selecting the wrong uses Lacking the rights skills Accessing the correct data Disagreement on enterprise strategy Data silos Management resistance Problem avoidance Source: Svetlana Sicular, Gartner http://blogs.gartner.com/svetlana-sicular/big-botched-data/
Institute for Data-Intensive Research (IDIR) What makes for a good data project? www.thedatalab.com
Events Event Location Date Data science meet-up Edinburgh 20 Aug Venturefest Glasgow 9 Sept ScotSoft 2015 17 Sept FinTech 2015 8 Oct MSc workshop 1 13 Oct Datakind 19 Oct Big Data & Banking conf New York 5 Dec Big Data Scotland 10 Dec www.thedatalab.com
Contact: TheDataLab. com @DataLabScotland Darran. Gardner@TheDataLab Contact: TheDataLab.com @DataLabScotland Darran.Gardner@TheDataLab.com Duncan.Hart@TheDatalab.com