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CivTech 4.0: Solve a challenge, build a business

As part of Digital Leaders Week 2019, the Scottish Government has announced two events taking…

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City Region Deal’s Data Skills drive opens with schools visit to ‘Data Town’

An event for city school pupils took place on Monday 3 June to mark the…

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Drive to bring more data research talent to Edinburgh

The Data-Driven Innovation initiative is supporting a recruitment drive to attract academic talent to Edinburgh,…

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Centre enables data-driven research to thrive

The University of Edinburgh has launched a research centre to support data-led research innovation in…

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Driving force

Catherine Stihler, Chief Executive of the Open Knowledge Foundation, explains how open data can help…

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Don’t miss our women in data science event

Tues 11 June 2019 15:00 – 17:30 The University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum Join us…

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Partnership boost for tech sector

The City Region’s tech sector is set to benefit from a collaboration between the Data-Driven…

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The power of data visualisation

Creative Industries sector lead, Caroline Parkinson explains how data innovation is being combined with leading-edge…

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Test centre aims to bring tidal technology on stream at high speed

A £2.4 million engineering research facility will seek to speed the development of materials and…

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