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Data Capital

The Scotsman

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Frequency: 1 episode/72d. Total Eps: 15

Edinburgh is becoming a hub for data, and has the ambition to become the Data Capital of Europe. Our podcast series - called Data Capital - will look at a range of projects that aim to make that dream reality. Data Capital delves into how data and Artificial Intelligence are all around us, every day. Do you worry that every part of our lives is being transformed by data and AI? Perhaps it excites you? Data Capital is a podcast by The Scotsman, in partnership with the Data Driven Innovation programme at the University of Edinburgh.

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The Scotsman Data Capital Podcast - We Begin As Data

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 • Duration 47:35

The UK is "walking down a path towards a surveillance state", a technology expert warns in the latest episode of The Data Capital podcast. Stephanie Hare voices her concerns about the different ways that technology and data are affecting our lives in a wide-ranging interview in We Begin As Data.
Hare, keynote speaker at The Scotsman's annual data conference on September 27th, also warns of the addictive power of tech platforms like TikTok and their potentially damaging long-term effect on young minds.

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Scotsman Data Capital Podcast: Making a Difference

Friday, May 5, 2023 • Duration 35:20

Two female data entrepreneurs describe how personal experiences - giving a cancer diagnosis to a child and watching older relatives lose their independence - motivated them to start their own businesses in the latest episode of the Data Capital podcast.
Ishani Malholtra, who founded Carcinotech, and Alex Reissig, co-founder of Smplicare, also talk about how vital data is to their business - and the continuing challenges faced by technology businesses founded by women.
They praise the support they received from the University of Edinburgh's Data Driven Entrepreneurship (DDE) programme in the podcast, Making a Difference: The Female Data Entrepreneurs Who Want to Change The World.

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Drilling down with data: Can data and AI transform the oil and gas industry?

Season 1 · Episode 4

Thursday, January 28, 2021 • Duration 25:08

In the fourth episode of The Scotsman's Data Capital series, we discuss how data and artificial intelligence can re-shape traditional energy businesses for the future - at a time when they are under intense pressure.

Drilling down into the detail are Barry Walker and Sam Netherwood of Accenture Applied Intelligence, who examine how data and AI are helping oil and gas companies make much smarter decisions about their businesses.

Barry Walker sets the scene by highlighting fundamental changes in the business world: "When we think about the challenges energy and resources companies face, let's first think about their position in the top ten global companies back in 2009 - there were 4 energy companies. Move forward 10 years and 8 of the top 10 are data-led businesses - and resources companies have dropped out of the list."

He also explains about the smart use of data: "How can you marry this proliferation of more data and more information, all of which we cannot possibly read or understand, into small nuggets of information that can really change the way you think about something?"

Sam Netherwood talks about the cultural change needed to embed smart data use in traditional businesses. He says: "Very few technologies and algorithms on their own can deliver the scale of change needed. We need the right data foundations and capabilities, the right behaviours and a data culture to really unlock the potential we have."

And he urges businesses to make change real - not just scratch the surface: "Changing behaviour is about creating conditions in which people can be incentivised to act with data differently - it's not just about training programmes and branded mouse-mats.

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Data and Artificial Intelligence: The Only Way is Ethics

Season 1 · Episode 3

Thursday, January 14, 2021 • Duration 33:00

In the third episode of Data Capital, we examine the thorny issue of how to ensure we use data and artificial intelligence effectively - but do not abuse them.

Professor Shannon Vallor, an expert in the challenging relationship between ethics and technology, reminds us that artificial intelligence is "human all the way down" - and insists self-aware machines are NOT about to take over the world.

She says: “There is nothing mysterious or magical about AI - it’s something that is transforming our world but completely reflective of our own human strengths and weaknesses.”

Professor Vallor, the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, is joined by Nick Thomas and Kyle McEnery of Baillie Gifford - and Kyle discusses how data and AI can help people invest their money both wisely, and ethically.

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Can data help families escape poverty and social isolation?

Season 1 · Episode 2

Thursday, January 7, 2021 • Duration 25:27

In the second episode of the series, we examine how data can support families in the Edinburgh city region suffering from poverty and social isolation.

A new project, the Intensive Family Support Service, is harnessing data to ensure the benefits of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal - especially new job opportunities - are fairly spread throughout society.

Sarah Galey-Horn of the University of Edinburgh discusses how the new project is seeking to find great examples of family support, and to share that brilliant work across the region. She is joined by Kate Kelman of the Capital City Partnership and Laura Millar from Fife Gingerbread to explain how data is used and how expertise is pooled to make the lives of families across the city region better. The panel also explore how the pandemic has changed their approach to tackling this issue. From Fife Gingerbread organising evenings for lone parents on zoom to parents building support networks online.

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Can data help bring tourists back to Edinburgh?

Season 1 · Episode 1

Thursday, December 17, 2020 • Duration 29:21

In the first episode, we explore how data is invaluable to the tourism industry. In 2020, Edinburgh’s world renowned Fringe festival was cancelled, leaving the city eerily quiet in what normally is a peak time for tourism. Josh Ryan-Saha, an expert in data and tourism with the Data Driven Innovation programme talks about the catastrophic drop in visitors to Edinburgh caused by the pandemic - and how data might help bring the tourists back and help the city’s hospitality businesses recover. He is also joined by Galina Andreeva and Ewelina Lacka of the University of Edinburgh, who are involved in innovative data research projects to address these fundamental issues to the Edinburgh city region economy. The panel discuss how their findings can be part of the solution to help the city recover - and why they will never complain about too many tourists in Scotland’s capital again.

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Data Capital Trailer

Season 1

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 • Duration 02:31

This is what you can expect from Data Capital, a new podcast from The Scotsman, hosted by writer and event host David Lee.

Data Capital Podcast: what does Scottish society need from robots?

Monday, August 22, 2022 • Duration 28:53

In the latest episode of The Scotsman’s Data Capital podcast series we speak with Professor Thusha Rajendran (Heriot-Watt University) about the potential for robots to change Scotland.

What do employers have to prove to attract the best data talent?

Season 2 · Episode 4

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 • Duration 28:31

Businesses who are able to attract the brightest and best technology talent will be those who understand the complex and ever-changing relationship between humans and computers.

This includes an ability to use artificial intelligence smartly to "automate the misery and retain the joy" in people's jobs, the latest podcast in The Scotsman's Data Capital series heard.

Experts from Accenture Applied Intelligence said the market for those working in data and artificial intelligence was "extremely buoyant" - and that businesses who wanted to win the war for talent had to be authentic in their recruitment.

Sam Netherwood, an expert in behaviour change with Accenture Applied Intelligence, said: "When it comes to data, tell candidates what you are working on. Ask if they want to be part of that, part of solving those problems, part of this innovation. It's about the inside [of an organisation] matching the outside."

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A Healthy Relationship with Data?

Season 2 · Episode 4

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 • Duration 30:19

Health data has been the foundation for decision-making during the Covid-19 pandemic - but there is room for improvement on how that data is combined and used in future, according to Scotland's National Clinical Director, Professor Jason Leitch.

In The Scotsman's latest Data Capital podcast, A Healthy Relationship with Data?, Prof Leitch discusses public attitudes to using their personal health data for the wider good.

He says: "I think that if you stop 100 people in the street and tell them that when they go into hospital, or care home, you would like to send the care home the fact that they are diabetic, or tell the hospital to know that they can't see out of their left eye, most would say ‘Don’t you do that already? Of course you should tell them that!

"What they might not want [sharing] is their sexually transmitted disease history, or their private mental health data. There's a balance in there about who should get what, but in the round, people expect healthcare data to be shared appropriately, confidentially, with other healthcare teams, and we're quite good at that."

He continues: "Data has been crucial to the pandemic response. It's kind of invisible, but it's the foundation for a lot of decision-making.

"At one level, data helps us make individual clinical decisions for Frank and Mary who are ill, or who need to be tested or vaccinated.

"At the other end is data for decisions. So, what does vaccination do for 5 million people? When should you start to do testing with lateral flow devices for 5 million people - or for the return of students? You're giving population level advice, allowing elected officials to make the decisions, and you need data at every level to be able to do that.".

He adds: "Sometimes we forget data is in service. It is not the end in itself, it is in service of patients. I think we have got better at it, but it could be smoother as [healthcare] systems sometimes don't communicate like they should, principally because the systems have developed separately. So we've had parallel tracks of our hospital level data or GP data or dentist data, or optician data, and care home data."

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