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Why Fry would say IA instead of AI

As part of a tour to promote her new book, Dr Hannah Fry took part in a discussion at the Royal Society of Arts last week. Some of the opinions she expressed included; why we don’t have to ...

Why is Leeds such a hub for data activity?

[…] time of the move, Sarah Wilkinson, chief executive of NHS Digital, stated that Leeds had established itself as “a major digital city in England with a thriving technology sector.” Both Connell and Craven said that the relocation of NHS England (which used to be called the NHS Commissioning Board) has helped to make Leeds […]
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How studying politics led to a career in data

[…] “It is always worth sitting down and having a chat with the person who is asking you for an output to truly understand what both of you are trying to figure out.” Tess Merkulova was profiled by The Female Lead and Women in Data UK as one of the Twenty in Data and Technology 2018.
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Laddering up to AI: Is your business ready?

[…] than the sum of its parts. Embedding machine learning into your company’s processes allows data science teams to explore what more can be achieved, enabled by data-powered technology. Machine learning algorithms can evaluate and mine data at speed, bringing together what may appear to be disparate elements within the business and identify previously uncharted […]
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Data visualisation – What’s Bauhaus got to do with it?

[…] affected and charged by the experience of the First World War. What is more, Bauhaus was set up with no strong commitment to industrial design or new technology, despite how much it influenced both fields. Bauhaus was a vibrant melting pot of ground breaking, cross-discipline ideas and work. This is an excellent parallel with […]
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Managing the data running through Asics

Chris Drouin of Asics Digital deals with consumer analytics and insights, machine learning models and data-driven solutions. He spoke to Toni Sekinah about the dream at Asics, a sports brand specialising in running shoes, of a single customer view as well as the benefit of moving to a cloud-based data warehouse.
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Pets at Home top dog for customer and CRM success

Pet owners superstore Pets at Home took home the prize for Customer/CRM Success at the DataIQ Awards this summer. It displayed impressive numbers related to customer retention and brand loyalty. Matt Lawrenson and Andy Wood of Pets at Home’s marketing agency Go Inspire told Toni Sekinah what other companies can do to set up a successful loyalty programme.
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Teradata keeps sports entertainment company happy

Dustin Spangler of Larry H Miller Sports and Entertainment has a huge variety of data to deal with as sports teams, a cycle race and a cinema chain, to name a few, fall under his company’s umbrella. He tells Toni Sekinah the challenges that he and his team face when dealing with that variety of data and how they went about choosing a cloud platform.
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Assess biased algorithms with an ethical matrix

Cathy O’Neil is the author of the seminal book Weapons of Math Destruction, a book detailing how algorithms can deliver and amplify negative outcomes to the most vulnerable people in society. In a presentation at Teradata Universe, she talked about the concept of an ethical matrix and how these could objectively assess the positive and negative impact of algorithms on their stakeholders.
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Business decisions based less on trust and more on truth

Dun & Bradstreet, a business information data company that provides business credit reports, has over 330 million business records on its Data Cloud. Andy Crisp tells Toni Sekinah about his observation having completed 20 years in at Dun & Bradstreet and what it means to ‘own’ data at the company.
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Mutual Friends: Aligning business strategy and data strategy

[…] CDO, not the CTO define it: First and foremost, a data strategy should not be owned and developed by the IT department. IT might legitimately lead the technology strategy which will be needed to deliver the data capabilities required, but a data strategy must be owned by the business, working in close collaboration with […]
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NHS England’s Ming Tang named most influential person in data in 2021

[…] vice president, data science and AI, AstraZeneca R&D Anita Fernqvist, chief data officer and director of operations, Zurich Insurance UK Scott Joslin, SVP data strategy, international data, technology, operations and innovation, WarnerMedia Neil McIvor, chief data officer and chief statistician, Department for Education Andy Hill, global vice president of information and analytics, Unilever Tom […]