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The City Region Deal is gearing up to help people across Edinburgh and South East Scotland improve their data skills. The Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) Skills Gateway has appointed Anna Scott as its Project Delivery Manager, to take the lead on Data Education for Work activities. Anna will be based in The Data Lab, Scotland’s Innovation…

The ‘Uber’ of the construction industry, an AI tool to analyse building materials, and a waste prevention web platform were among ideas presented by University of Edinburgh students to reduce waste from the construction industry – Scotland’s single largest waste producer. The 24 students were responding to a brief set by leading infrastructure company Robertson,…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…