Interviews
Guest Blog: Anna Scott
In this blog Anna Scott, Project Delivery Manager – Data Skills for Work (DDI Skills Gateway) discusses how we don’t all need to be data scientists, but we do all need data skills to prepare for the jobs of the future, now more than ever. That’s where the City Region Deal’s key strand Data-Driven Innovation…
Read MoreAcademic Profile: Professor John Frank
John Frank is Chair of Public Health Research and Policy at the University of Edinburgh and leads a project within the Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF aiming to predict obesity in Scottish children. What is the aim of your project? We’re aiming to find out if we can identify children who will be…
Read MoreAcademic profile: Fumi Kitagawa
Fumi Kitagawa, lecturer in entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Edinburgh Business School, talks to the Data-Driven Innovation initiative about her work to identify opportunities for DDI activities with public and private organisations in Fife. How did you get involved in the project? The initial approach for…
Read MoreAcademic profile: Sarah Galey-Horn
Sarah Galey-Horn is a Train@Ed Post Doctoral Fellow in the University of Edinburgh’s Moray House School of Education, whose specialist area of research is family social capital and network interventions. The DDI initiative recently spoke to Sarah about how she’s helping to evaluate the City Region Deal’s intensive family support (IFS) proposals. How did…
Read MoreGuest blog: Douglas Ross MP
Our guest blog comes from Douglas Ross, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland , who explains the vital role data science plays in designing better products and services. The world is entering a new age of unprecedented data collection thanks to the widespread use of microchips, sensors and satellites. Data science is about crunching this huge…
Read MoreGuest blog: Ruth Donnelly, Assistant Director, Careers Service
Most people take it for granted that students at the University of Edinburgh are highly intelligent, focused and capable. What may be less appreciated, is the fact that many of them also understand the power and responsibility their generation has to drive change. They are passionate about finding opportunities to apply their knowledge and skills…
Read MoreGetting a Story from your Data
Caroline Parkinson reports from Data-Driven Innovation’s recent event, Getting a Story from your Data On 28 November, the Data-Driven Innovation programme held its second creative industries skills event. This was co-created with trade bodies for theatre, performance and publishing sector. Over the past year creative industries trade bodies and practitioners have expressed their…
Read MoreSpace 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 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…
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