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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...

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...

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...
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...

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...