IoT set to accelerate disruption of car insurance sector
The adoption of autonomous vehicles by the automotive industry is starting to pick up pace. Nick Walker, insurance expert and RAC’s former UK telematics managing director, witnessed BMW set up a building outside Munich and fill it with 2,000 engin…
Disconnected data is a spanner in the works of business efficiency
Disconnected data is an obstacle to efficiency within organisations. This is according to research that found that, on average, workers believe their organisation would see a 28% increase in efficiency if all necessary data were better int…
Don’t follow the Swedish model: why data contracts could be your DP downfall
Sweden has every reason to be sensitive about personal information. Up to 1975, it compulsorily sterilised some 21,000 of its own citizens on the grounds of eugenics. With a problematic misuse of medical data of that kind in its background, you wo…
Double pivot gets Football Whispers the win
The team behind Football Whispers submitted its entry to the DataIQ Talent Awards only hoping that the data sector would understand what it is doing – trawling through transfer chatter for nuggets of truth. The sector not only understood, …
Are you content with assumed consent?
Imagine you attend an event to hear a speaker from your industry, invite in hand, and expected by the hosts. The drinks are flowing as guests nibble the canapés. Throughout the schoomzing, you notice a photographer snapping away in the bac…
How to win your analytics bid – 5 tips to be a successful CAO
JustGiving and eBay may have a category difference when it comes to their size – the fundraising platform has helped more than £4 billion to be collected since it launched in 2001, while the auction site sold around £16 billion of stock in…
IAC migrates for a cleaner data view
As the head of business intelligence at IAC Publishing Labs, it is Erika Bakse’s job to make sure that data and analytics is available to all business users and data users – “basically, the whole company,” in her words. She told DataIQ in …
EDF makes smart home connections
Head of connected home at EDF Energy Blue Lab, John Hutchins, is excited about developments in his area of the energy company’s innovation centre. During a presentation hosted by the Sussex Innovation Centre in Croydon, part of the Univers…
A warehouse full of Snowflakes
In an interview with DataIQ, chief executive Bob Muglia described Snowflake as, “a data warehouse company that is revolutionising the way people work with data,” and added that, “there is an insatiable desire for organisations to work with…
Embrace smart data to achieve your marketing goals
Data is a valuable currency for most companies these days. In 2015, users generated nearly 8 zettabytes of data worldwide and that number is likely to reach 35 zettabytes within just a few years. Companies are contributing to that massive …
John Akred: Data scientist in search of the right question
“It can look as though my life led up to this moment in what seems like a grand plan to become a data scientist. The truth is I just got lucky that the world decided to call what I do data science.” So says John Akred, co-founder and CTO at Silico…
Andrew Day, CDO of Sainsbury’s, tops the 2017 DataIQ 100
The ultimate power list of the most influential leaders in data-driven business. Now in its fourth consecutive year, the DataIQ 100 has been revealed once again to highlight the UK’s key industry leaders who drive business…
DataIQ 100 Class of 2016 – Where are they now?
With the unveiling of this year’s DataIQ 100, it’s a good opportunity to look back on the class of 2016 and consider how much has changed in the last 12 months. It is immediately striking that, out of the previous Top Ten, just five remain in the …
HR/AI = (-x) – The employment/automation equation
Valentine’s Day is looming next week and for commercial flower growers it represents one of the biggest sales opportunities of the year. Assuming they can get their products cut and collected from the fields, that is. In the wake of Brexit, the b…
Have we passed peak data protection?
Progress is a motherhood and apple pie concept, as the Americans like to call them. Nobody disagrees with it, but few can define exactly why it is especially welcome. If you say a new development is just part of progress, it is a quick way…
How to run the perfect proof of concept
Two things are happening in enterprise IT: the pace of change is reaching breakneck speeds; and technology is moving closer to the strategic goals of businesses, creating a great deal of digital disruption. Young, agile businesses that hav…
5 lessons from the Future
This year’s conference programme for DataIQ Future was rich in insight about how organisations are adopting the new techniques of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and data science. Presentations across the day proved that these are n…
How to get a slice of the PIE
Here are two concepts you might need to get familiar with if you want a slice of the personal information economy (PIE) – “growth through trust” and “self-sovereign identity”.
The first is a guiding principle laid down by Eliz…
How to win on your technology bets, from AI to IoT
Keeping up with trends in technology can provide genuine financial gains and competitive advantage. But when it comes to implementing technology that is clearly relevant and being applied elsewhere, there is often a lag. The reason? Skills…
The importance of data governance in meeting regulatory compliance
The EU approves 80 directives, 1,200 regulations, and 700 directions each year, on average, while in the UK, an average of 3,000 statutory instruments – the country’s primary method of making laws – are introduced in the same timeframe.
Ind…