I was putting together some pages covering Data Governance – I’ve spent a lot of my recent contracts doing various aspects of Data Governance/Data management – and I felt I wanted to share a dilemma? Maybe that’s overstating it; maybe,…
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2021……
Well, I finally got back into a mindset to blog again. It has been a very odd few years away. Several times I sat at my keyboard and decided I needed to blog, and sure enough, writers block hit. This…
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2015 or…1993?
I saw this article on both Mashable and the BBC about China imposing new IT guidelines The Chinese government has asked issued new guidelines that would require hi tech suppliers to insert backdoors, monitor ports and adopt Chinese encryption algorithms…
Citizen Smith
Okay, if you are old enough to remember Robert Lyndsey’s Wolfie Smith then you can feel you’re on the inside. Another difficult day at the office triggered a slightly surreal conversation “Who’s to blame?” The conversation soon took a turn…
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The new frontier in data analysis?
Where is the new frontier in data analysis? I tried to work this out.Let me explain the question further. I’m a bit of a geek. I try to hide it, but in those moments no-one is looking too closely, I…
Schools might not have books anymore!
I liked this story in the news. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26249041 It appealed to my inner-geek, and also made me think about the amount of paper I lug around. I like the idea of kids having a tablet or similar device to simply…
Big Data Institute
I’m always quite sceptical of politicians when they extol the virtues of a dead genius, but in amongst all the fluff that is usual on budget day, there was this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26651179 I read Andrew Hodges ‘Enigma of Intelligence’ years ago,…
The Big Day
Finally made it! Got here a few minutes early, walking around a university again feels strange. I’ve not been asked whether I’ve voted in student elections yet. Lewis advocates education and democracy, but I am still tending towards a vote…
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An Internet of Opportunities
I was reading some statistics the other day. How would these types of numbers make you think about the type of services you were designing and about how your business might focus itself: E-commerce accounts for £44billion of the total…
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