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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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Let’s deliver growth through data

Our guest blog comes from Kate Forbes, Scottish Government Minister for Public Finance and Digital…

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Open finance project hits new milestone

The Scottish bid to establish a Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence has come a…

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Smart Contracts in Action

Design Informatics introduces experts to smart contracts through the GeoPact demonstrator. On 12-13 March 2019,…

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MyData Global gather in Edinburgh

On 19-20 March 2019, the MyData Global community visited Scotland’s capital to set out plans for…

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Edinburgh’s DDI initiative to host ‘digital human rights’ meeting

Data ethics on the agenda as global community for personal data comes to Scotland’s capital…

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Bid to beat drug resistance boosted by worldwide sewage ‘data map’

Efforts to monitor the spread of antibiotic resistance worldwide could be transformed with a map…

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Building the knowledge economy

Liz McAreavey, Chief Executive of Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, discusses what data-driven innovation’s place in…

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