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On the first day of Christmas… The world is getting better
Okay so I know that that's a pretty sweeping statement. But bear with me. This is the first of a series of uplifting, data driven stories/nuggets/insights about how things are getting better. Not a panglossian foray into fake news, but a belief that sharing good news...
12 Days of UpliftingData for Christmas….
I am pretty sure I'm not alone in thinking that we seem to be inundated with bad news, and ever worsening pictures of the world. So I thought for Christmas I'd pick out 12 bits of data - stories, really - that give a different perspective. Think of them as the glass...
Pictures can be worth a thousand words – but their power is sometimes treacherous
This rather beautiful map from the guys at https://informationisbeautiful.net has been doing the rounds. Now let's be clear - I love their work, and have often used their stuff in presenting examples of compelling visualisations. Part of what makes data compelling is...
What is Data Science
Havard Business Review call it the sexiest job of the 21st century. So what is data science? There’s a joke that data science is simply what they call data analytics in Silicon Valley. And to some extent that’s true – much of data science has indeed existed long before the phrase.
Movement in Business Intelligence Tools
From the good people at g2, these two grids (the first published in Summer 2017, the second Winter 2016), show how much and quickly the market is moving. Tableau looks consistently strong, but many of the other tools are bouncing all over the place. Also there seem to...
Ethics and Data
There are some very big questions around data, and unsurprisingly, legislation is struggling to keep up - not least because of how the internet has made data transportable across jurisdictions. GDPR, and the continued scrutiny of how data is used,in particular the...
Averages
“There’s no such thing as an average donor”, and beware of “average of averages”. One of my key interview questions – being able to differentiate between averages, and communicate that difference with clarity, is vital for an analyst.