The Data Lab Community

What a way to kick off our 10th Anniversary celebrations! 🎈🎉🥳 One of our busiest meetups ever, a completely full house at @CodebaseGlasgow ! Big thanks to our brilliant speakers Jo Halliday & Adam Sroka & everyone who joined us! Join the community → community.thedatalab.com/feed

Our most read article in the community this week was around the rising use of AI detectors in education, and the potential for false cheating accusations. We'd love to hear your opinions on this! bloomberg.com/news/features/…

School children across Scotland are to benefit from a new digital literacy project led by @RobertGordonUni to improve their understanding of GenAI. rgu.ac.uk/news/news-2024…

🏆 How to win a Nobel prize 🏆 This fun graphic article shows trends in Nobel prize winners over the years, crunching the data on the every science prizewinner. What subjects have winners studied? What age were they when they won? Where do they live? nature.com/immersive/d415…

This October, our theme in The Data Lab Community is Education! 🎓 Data and AI have the potential to revolutionise education - across schools, higher education, professional development and EdTech. Read more about our theme here → community.thedatalab.com/news/2181869

Free open-source app to log Edinburgh potholes (built using no-code) 🕳️🚗 Community member Martin Lellep has built a free, open-source phone app to log potholes in Edinburgh using a no-code approach, and is looking for contributors! Find out more → lellep.xyz/blog/edinburgh…

Did you know that #Geospatial #data is used everywhere, from delivery tracking to weather forecasting, fitness tracking to crop tracking for farmers. Sign up to a host of events and webinars in Edinburgh this August. @DataLabScotland @ScotGovDigital @location_data @GeosciencesEd

Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, @DataLabScotland, has today announced the launch of its first-ever Geospatial Fringe programme next month in response to the growing interest in the sector across the UK. buff.ly/3W3JTDO #Tech | #News | #Geospatial

We’re proud to announce The Data Lab Community Geospatial Fringe taking place throughout August to increase understanding and appreciation of geospatial data, highlighting the great work taking place here in Scotland 👏 Learn more at ow.ly/TyRC50SBcZl

✨Back to the Future: Building a vision for public sector data✨ This year, @scotgov invited people to come together to co-create a vision for public sector data in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Albert King, Chief Data Officer at @NHSNSS, has written about the experience → blogs.gov.scot/digital/2024/0…

This was surely the funnest article posted in the community last week! Taylor Swift at Murrayfield x Seismographic data - an unexpected delight from the @BritGeoSurvey! Bonus points for the "Quake it off" headline. 👏 Read the article here → bgs.ac.uk/news/quake-it-…

As part of our community activities this August we're hosting a ‘Geospatial Fringe’ - a programme of events organised by individuals and organisation in our community and wider network! 📍🗺️ Interested in hosting an event? Register your interest here → forms.office.com/pages/response…

Women in Data & AI Meetup @TDLCommunity : 18 June, @BayesCentre, Edinburgh. Join Lesley-Anne Kelly (Head of Data Journalism, DC Thomson) & Rachel Close (Senior Responsible AI Manager, BBC) as they share their experiences of data & AI in the media. community.thedatalab.com/events/147549

@eric_techcare @DataLabScotland Thanks Eric!

@TDLCommunity @DataLabScotland Wicked event as always 🙌🏻

Thanks to everyone who joined last week's PACKED community meetup! This time we were discussing how data and AI technologies are helping to transform healthcare. Special thanks to our speakers, Ivona Vickovic, Shane Burns & Simon Rogers and our wonderful host Adam Sroka!

I spent part of my day in the @DataLabScotland boardroom. Brilliant update from @hhthomson13 & the rest of the team about the fantastic ongoing work. Brilliant to hear about the organic growth of the @TDLCommunity too. It was nice to join the TDL Community Meet Up: Health event👍🏾

This June our theme is 'Data, AI & the Financial Sector'! We'll be exploring how data & AI is shaping the future of finance, showcasing innovations + discussing the key challenges facing the sector. Join the community to get involved → community.thedatalab.com

The recording from last week's webinar with Georgia Richards around her work on the Preventable Deaths Tracker is now available to watch! This was a really fascinating session - huge thanks again to Georgia for taking part! Watch it back here → youtube.com/watch?v=IP056B…

🚀 5000 members! 🚀 We're delighted to have reached the landmark of 5000 members (from 83 countries!) in The Data Lab Community! A massive thanks to everyone who has supported our community - we couldn't do this without you! Next stop, 10,000 members! 📈