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Big data and analytics?

Posted on 26th November 2018 in by Phil Alsop

The Big data and analytics question is at the forefront of many business leaders thinking but it’s worth taking a step back and looking at some of the wider macro-economic trends. Since the post war era, UK productivity has risen steadily when averaged over the decades but dropped significantly...

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Understanding the democratisation of data

Posted on 26th November 2018 in by Phil Alsop

Business decisions are increasingly being made based on data insight, but getting access to this data, traditionally owned by IT departments, can, at times, be quite difficult. As the requests from across the business start piling up with the ‘owners’ of the data, there has been an increased...

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Football’s just a branch of science: how the beautiful game is turning into a numbers game

Posted on 19th November 2018 in by Phil Alsop

“We should be playing with two up front”, “We shouldn’t have subbed him off”, “I can’t believe they’ve left him on the bench”. Andre Doerr of Exasol writes.

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Scrutiny on the Data Supply Chain

Posted on 19th October 2018 in by Phil Alsop

While most commonly associated with the manufacturing process, the term ‘supply chain’ is now frequently being applied to the management of data within financial services firms. In plain terms, a supply chain is a sequence of steps in which raw materials are gathered and ultimately turned into...