Posts by Stephaine Peebles
Space meets creative mash-up
Caroline Parkinson reports from Data-Driven Innovation’s recent event, the Art of the Possible: Bright Sustainable Future. On 12 November, the Data-Driven Innovation programme held its first creative industries innovation event by bringing space and satellite data experts and creative practitioners together in a mash-up to raise awareness amongst the two sectors, and stimulate co-working…
Read MoreStrategy lead steps in at Data-Driven Innovation programme
The Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) programme has made a key appointment to its senior leadership team. Ritchie Somerville has been named as DDI’s Head of Strategy and will focus on developing and delivering a wide range of initiatives that meet the programme’s outcomes. Ritchie will also look after the programme’s wider alignment within the ever-evolving innovation…
Read MoreGuest blog: Tracy Black, CBI Scotland Director
AI and innovation – futureproofing the Scottish economy Putting politics to one side, if you ask anyone what they want for the future of Scotland, they’ll come up with a pretty similar answer: a successful economy that provides good jobs, high wages and supports first class public services. The more difficult question is how we…
Read MorePoppy Gerrard-Abbott describes the journey of the DDI ‘Women in Data’ campaign
I arrived at Data-Driven Innovation in January 2019 to lead on the Women in Data project. With a small team, we got to work with a rough spec and fairly straightforward aim of capturing the professional contributions of women in data science, tech and innovation work in Edinburgh. We had an approximate idea of how…
Read MoreApplications for Creative Informatics Challenge Projects are open now!
Applications for the second round of Creative Informatics Challenge Projects are open now, with a deadline of the 6th of November. Challenge Projects offer an opportunity for creative and cultural organisations in Edinburgh and South East Scotland to bring forward challenges relating to their work that require innovative, data-driven solutions. Up to five challenges will…
Read MoreVeterinarians get data-savvy to map livestock health
Good data on livestock disease and mortality is essential for making informed investments in animal health, and to improve productivity and incomes in low and middle-income countries. But decision-makers face enormous data challenges when it comes to grasping and making sense of the existing body of literature and evidence, which is scattered across multiple databases…
Read MoreBayes Centre home to new earth data service
The International Center for Earth Data (ICED) has opened at the University of Edinburgh’s Bayes Centre. The ICED is a joint project between data company Orbital Micro Systems (OMS), the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, to deliver the world’s first commercially viable system for combining and distributing earth observation data.…
Read MoreEthics of data and AI are focus of key appointment
One of the US’s leading experts on the impact of artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies on people’s lives is set to join the University of Edinburgh. Professor Shannon Vallor – who joins the University in February 2020 from Santa Clara University in in California’s Silicon Valley – has been appointed as the first Baillie…
Read MoreData for Children Collaborative with UNICEF announces first projects
The Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF has officially launched in Scotland, announcing three initial projects that will use data to deliver new ways of tackling childhood obesity, address child poverty and improve child population estimates locally, nationally and globally. Originally announced in the First Minister’s 2018 Programme for Government, the Collaborative is a partnership…
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