by Paul Miller | Feb 12, 2013 | Blog
Ideas behind Big Data were put to the test on BBC’s Radio 4 this week and were found wanting. The programme was called Start the Week. Kenneth Cukier was on the Big Data side of the debate and Tiffany Jenkins sounded a loud note of caution on what she described...
by Paul Miller | Mar 15, 2011 | Blog
Last Christmas my wife bought me a dustpan and brush. They were beautifully wrapped. She had bought them from Labour and Wait – a well known shop off Brick Lane in the east end of London. There weren’t too many interesting features of my present, but one did catch my...
by Paul Miller | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog
In a previous life, I worked in human resource management, negotiating with trades unions. It was a management function outside finance where a LOT of numbers were thrown around. How much was being claimed? What would be the impact on the organisation today and into...
by Paul Miller | Feb 14, 2011 | Blog
“Crime maps are ‘worse than useless’, claim developers” cried one Guardian headline. “Police map of crime: the data is richer and more useful” cried another. As with all of these things, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. The criticism that makes the data...
by Paul Miller | Sep 26, 2010 | Blog
Suffolk is going to outsource everything. In other places, development proceeds. Let’s consider a key possible area. The research and intelligence that should be supporting local enterprise partnerships. Just in the last few weeks we’ve heard that South Tyneside is...
