Students
Get the skills you need to kick start your data science career
Develop your knowledge, qualifications and contacts, build your expertise and experience, and make your career in data science a reality.
The Data Lab Academy
Enhance your employability skills through our Academy’s programme of events, workshops and challenges. Maximise your chances of finding a rewarding career in data science. Full funding is available.
Placement Programmes
Get vital real-world experience in industry. We run successful paid placements programmes that link students with some of Scotland’s most innovative companies.
Scholarships
Access funding for your studies and get a full scholarship for our The Data Lab Academy programme.
PhD Support
If your PhD studies are data/AI-related take up this unique opportunity to apply your academic expertise in one of Scotland’s leading companies.
Community Platform
The Data Lab Community enables data and AI professionals, academics, students and other enthusiasts to connect, collaborate and learn from each other.
Courses designed for you:
Driving Value from Data
Free on-line course
Our Driving Value From Data workshop will help you to develop a greater understanding of the importance and potential of data.
Format: | Free online course |
Date: | 6th June 2022 |
Time: | 2 hours |
Why study data science?
Learning data science allows you to understand and creatively solve a range of key business and social problems. This makes you suitable for a variety of roles in a broad range of growing Scottish industry sectors such as digital technologies, energy and utilities, financial services, public sector, healthcare, urban planning, among many others.
Our student support team
Anna Ashton Scott
Programme Manager — Professional Development
Jacqueline Huynh
Administrator
Sonia Hadj Said
Administrator – Data Skills for Work
Hannah Gordon
Project Manager
Nuria Fraile-Diaz
Product Manager – Data Skills for Work
Statistics block
850+
funded Masters students across 12 universities
300+
students placed into industry, many SMEs
36,000
learners registered for online training
“If you learn data science now, then for the next decade, you will have a profession that’s in great demand.”
Why kind of career path might I follow?
There are an increasing number of career pathways and specialisms in the world of data science. Check out these resources by Digital World with qualification guides and possible career options including:
- Data Analyst
- Data Engineers
- Database Administrator
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Data Scientist
- Data Architect
- Statistician
- Business Analyst
- Data and Analytics Manager
Speak to one of our team to help find out what’s right for you
Case studies showing what’s possible with data:
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Data Leaders Case Study: Social Bite
Beginning life as a small café in Edinburgh in 2012, Social Bite has become an internationally renowned charity, supporting people facing homelessness or facing barriers to employment. In the last decade, it has also established several programmes, such as The Social Bite Village, free food provision, and globally renowned campaigns including Sleep in the Park. […]
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Property technology start-up grows team following placements
Grand Bequest is an Edinburgh-based PropTech start-up that uses AI and data to promote the redevelopment of vacant buildings and give them a new life. The company currently only operates in Scotland, but it is looking to expand across the UK and internationally in the future. We look at the positive impact that taking […]
News about Professional Development:
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The Data Lab Academy launch event for the student class of 2022
On Wednesday 12th October, The Data Lab team headed over to Edinburgh’s beautiful Summerhall multi-arts building to host this year’s Data Lab Academy Launch event – a happy coincidence that it fell on the same week as World Student Day? Here’s what we got up to and what to expect for future events … What […]
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The scariest data stories from across the world
Happy Halloween! Whilst everyone’s been running about getting their Instagram snaps in pumpkin patches, pretending they like those autumn spiced lattes (seriously, why are they THAT sweet?), and picking up fun-sized Mars bars for the kids, The Data Lab team have been reading up on true tales of horror … the scariest data stories from […]
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The Data Lab Community turns 1!
September marks one year since we launched The Data Lab Community – a diverse online space where members from across sectors, industries, and geographies could come together to create positive economic and social impact using data and AI (for themselves, their organisations, and those around them.) Firstly, we’d like to extend an enormous thank you […]
The Data Lab Community is a digital community created to enable data and AI professionals, academics, students and other enthusiasts to connect, collaborate, develop and learn.
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