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How to create a data revolution in charities

How to create a data revolution in charities

Good Data is a liberator for charities This is a short series of blogs on the Data Revolution in charities. Sadly, the phrase is close to being a cliche. We base these blogs on three things:  First, our experience of working with a small number of charities. Second,...

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Even slacker with your data

Even slacker with your data

This time last year, I wrote about Slack's privacy policy. I explained why our company wouldn't be using Slack for fear that our data and that of our customers would be at risk. Now, we see that Slack is very actively going to be exploiting its users' data.  Slack has...

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Marketing a revolution – learning from history

Marketing a revolution – learning from history

On 3 December 1992, Neil Papworth, an engineer, sent the text "MERRY CHRISTMAS" to colleagues at Vodafone. It was the first SMS. It took another 7 years for text messaging to take off. Perhaps it was badly marketed. I wonder how they described texts. Something like...

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Reinventing Racquets for Big-Data

Reinventing Racquets for Big-Data

One of the world's newest technologies is going to inhabit a building that once housed one of the oldest of sports - a sport that originated in prison! During the 18th Century, racquets was played originally in the open, on the yard walls of the two main London...

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Slack – with your data

Slack is a billion dollar San Francisco newbie that gives itself excessive license to play free and easy with stuff that doesn’t belong to it. Slack is a product that enables teams to collaborate through ‘channels’. Individuals can, for example, work together on a...

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The hype about digital tech up North

Biotech.  Once upon a time, every region claimed that it was the life science centre of the UK.  I know, because I was required to adjudicate on the claims.  Today, for ‘biotech’ read ‘digital’. Or perhaps just ‘tech’. Back then, we asked whether data supported the...

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3 key trends in big data analytics

3 key trends in big data analytics

Like it or loathe it, we're in the big data analytics space.  So we reflect continuously on it.  We ask "what are the 3 key things going on in big data analytics"? As data volumes explode – and become big data the challenge lies in their complexity not their  size....

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Micro-Targeting areas of wealth & poverty

IMD stands for Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD).   IMD is a data based (i.e. it's based on data),  statistically robust, reasonably accurate window on the conditions found in areas in the UK, that house between 1,000 and 3,000 people.  And here's the killer point -...

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Fearing burglary is rational only if you know the burglary rate.

Channel 4 found this spot in Leeds which, it is claimed, is England's burglary hot spot - and they created documentary TV based on it.   In the first 20 minutes of the programme, we created 1 map and 3 charts, uploaded them to our site and Tweeted 4 mini stories based...

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