DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Data for good champion: Alex Hutchison, director of the Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF
Key to the Collaborative’s success is its director, Alex Hutchison, who serves as a tireless advocate for the responsible use of data to improve the lives of children. Doing so requires the skill to navigate the complex relationship between the Collaborative’s key stakeholders to challenge, initiate and drive ideas that resonate across organisational boundaries. Hutchison’s […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Becoming Data Literate award: JLL
Fiona Gordon, BI strategy director, and Simon Beaumont, global centre of excellence director, set out the 20/20 vision using five pillars: a plan on a page oriented to vision, ambition, cause, values, strategic objectives, and key priorities; change management; design thinking; continuous learning; uniting the community. Change management was recognised as essential to ensure buy-in […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Data for health and wellbeing: IAG Loyalty
Development of the platform began after an internal study revealed that 67% of IAG Loyalty employees felt less connected to each other, 46% were exercising less and 37% experienced sleep issues after the first lockdown. It was built within four months to address the mental and physical challenges highlighted by the survey, leveraging much of […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Best data and AI ethics initiative: Barclays UK
At the end of 2019, the data and analytics team (DNA) identified the need to apply an ethical filter to its data use, ensuring it was transparent, consistent in its decision-making and therefore able to build trust with customers. A reusable data ethics framework was identified as desirable – a customised version of the ODI’s […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Data for society: Public Health England, NHS England and NHS Improvement
An early hurdle for the team behind the dashboard was pooling the disparate sources of data collected by the various strands of England’s health and care system. In March 2020, NHS England and NHS Improvement partnered with NHSX to integrate this data into a single, secure location – the NHS Covid-19 data store. An integration […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Best data and analytics team (Data Titans): Specsavers global data team
One proof of that was when clinical teams identified that two-thirds of referrals for glaucoma were missed during the first lockdown. That data was shared with the NHS and Glaucoma UK, becoming part of the evidence base for allowing optometrists to remain open and thereby helping to prevent avoidable blindness. There is a strong, caring […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Global data and analytics leader of the year: Wade Munsie, GSK Consumer Healthcare
The lockdown meant a fully virtual working environment, but the year saw over 100 data and analytics practitioners built into a team within months. Leadership has been central to this – Munsie has built an open, empowered, collaborative and fun culture which has seen CSAT scores of 4.8 out of 5 from a 100% response […]
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Data champion: Liz Brandt, Ctrl-Shift
When Liz Brandt spotted the potential for a well-regulated, properly-legislated personal data eco-system and set up Ctrl-Shift in 2010, she was significantly ahead of her time. Since then, she has worked with Government, regulators, consumer groups and business to build their understanding of the economic and societal value of safe data sharing.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Data for good champion: Jamie Barnard, Unilever
Trust in digital channels has been declining. As a digital media lawyer, Jamie Barnard felt a strong sense of responsibility to address this challenge. Working with the World Federation of Advertisers, its transparency advisory board was rebranded as the WFA data ethics board, and his report, “The rise of morality in technology,” became the world’s first guide on data ethics for brands.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Data for society: Athena SWAN at the Open University
The Athena SWAN charter was launched in 2005 to address gender inequality in higher education and the Open University has held the award since 2013. As a result of the initiative, 60.7% of its staff, 50% of students and 40.3% of academic and research staff are women. The median pay gap has also been reduced to 6.5%.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Best data ethics and privacy initiative: DQM GRC and WarnerMedia
As one of the world’s largest entertainment corporations, WarnerMedia views privacy-by-design as part of its global vision. It approached DQM GRC to develop a training programme that encouraged employees to view privacy as a creative challenge and help people from across different teams understand each other’s perspectives.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Data for the environment: Geolytix – Green space index
2020 has highlighted the importance of the work Fields in Trust does, ensuring it can protect green space. Covid-19 and lockdown highlighted that the less affluent and BAME communities have the highest reliance on public green spaces, yet the lowest access to them. It worked with Geolytix to build the green space index to focus its efforts.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Best data product/service of the year (client): HSBC commercial banking data and analytics team Covid-19 dashboard
To effectively support its customers during Covid-19, HSBC commercial banking (CMB) needed to understand the exposure and impact on each business customers so it could take relevant action. Within three days, all CMB customers worldwide were mapped and assessed across 50-plus measures and check-points, all captured in an interface with easy navigation and access controls in place.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Data for wellness: Clementine
Clementine is a wellbeing app designed to support millions of women to believe in themselves. It is a simple solution to the problem of poor sleep, tiredness, stress or lack of confidence aimed at helping women to feel calm and confident.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Best data product/service of the year (enabler): Merkle – Missed pay project for the OGTC
The Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) wanted to use a data-driven approach to find a better way of identifying overlooked pay zones. It approached Merkle to help utilise the vast amount of data available and build an effective model. The data was bought to life using a data visualisation tool, creating an interactive scatterplot of the wells.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Grand Prix: NatWest Group data and analytics
The NatWest Group data academy not only provides formal learning development across data science, data engineering, decisioning, ethics and governance, performance and insights, it is also yielding outputs from up-skilled workers that are providing business benefits. Open to incumbent practitioners and across the bank, it has already trained nearly 600 practitioners and over 4,000 non-data colleagues.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Best data story or data visualisation: JLL global KPI project
As a global business, JLL has multi-million dollar accounts with KPIs that need to be reported monthly. This involves aggregation of multiple data sources to ensure metrics roll up from site to country to region to global level. Using KPIs to direct the business has put business intelligence right at the heart of the organisation.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Most effective stakeholder engagement: Vodafone Covid-19 big data and AI response tool
When the Covid-19 pandemic started to impact on society globally, the Vodafone big data and AI team focused its resources onto emerging use cases, like epidemiology and financial inclusion. These have helped to inform government and institutions in their crisis planning in multiple countries.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Best development programme: NatWest Group data and analytics
The NatWest Group data academy not only provides formal learning development across data science, data engineering, decisioning, ethics and governance, performance and insights, it is also yielding outputs from up-skilled workers that are providing business benefits. Open to incumbent practitioners and across the bank, it has already trained nearly 600 practitioners and over 4,000 non-data colleagues.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Most innovative use of AI: Merkle and Spirit Energy – predictive analytics for operations
Processing gas leads to the generation of carbon dioxide which can lead to a trip or shutdown of the plant, costing Spirit Energy £3.6 million annually. Merkle applied artificial intelligence to sensor data to create a predictive model, giving plant operators valuable early warning of problems.