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DataIQ works with some of the leading providers of data and analytics technology and services. If you have a project coming up, make this your first port of call.

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Profiles, features and insights on the key trends, leaders, emerging stars and best practices within data, analytics and data science, originated by DataIQ and our partners

Trust and empowerment alive and well at Aviva’s customer data science department

19 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

Aviva walked away with the gong for the Best Place to Work in Data (Data Titan) at the DataIQ Awards. Tom Spencer of Aviva speaks to Toni Sekinah about how he has created a positive and encouraging working environment and what other data and analytics workplaces could do to follow suit.

Leadership Organisation and culture

How to transform a business in a data driven way

16 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

There is a book that can help companies get everyone involved in the overhaul to becoming truly data driven. Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson have joined forces and writing power again to author another book: Data Driven Business Transformation. Toni Sekinah takes a look.

Leadership Organisation and culture Strategy

Report warns of danger of big brother turning big copper

15 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

A report by civil liberties organisation Liberty has warned of the dangers of “affording discriminatory policing practices a technological veneer of legitimacy.” The report authors audited police forces across the country for their use of predictive policing programs and made five recommendations for future use. Toni Sekinah reports.

Data regulation Organisation and culture Technology

Many Equifax data breach victims won't see a pretty penny

14 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

Consumer data should be worth more than $125 a pop. However, for credit referencing Equifax, restitution has a low price and customers have little value.

Data governance Data regulation Organisation and culture

Avoiding blind spots and bias in artificial intelligence

12 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

Top researcher at Qlik Elif Tutuk believes that as the British public develops a greater understanding of artificial intelligence and its implications for society, those who are creating and programming AI need to have both a technology and human perspective to avoid blind spots. Toni Sekinah reports.

Organisation and culture Technology

Recognising the bias when training robots

09 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

Roboticist Ayanna Howard recognises how bias can creep in when programming robots but says that the public has a role to play in keeping the companies that create these machines accountable. Toni Sekinah reports.

Data science Technology

Algorithms of Oppression – How search engines reinforce racism review

08 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

Safiya Umoja Noble argues in her 2018 book, Algorithms of Oppression, that we should question and be more critical of search engines as well as call for regulation, public policy and debate of their use and the algorithms that underpin them. Toni Sekinah reports.

Data regulation Data science Organisation and culture Technology

Overcoming imposter syndrome in data science through specialisation

07 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

Imposter syndrome can affect almost anyone, even those high-achievers who seem to be secure in their abilities. Data professional Tola Alade spoke to Toni Sekinah about how being unable to recognise her achievements has affected her career and the steps she has taken to address that.

Data science Skills

When a red light is a red line for privacy

05 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

I took an unauthorised photo in a foreign country and it led me to think about how attitudes to privacy differ across nations, professions, time and location. As data subjects and internet users, we should all be able to explicitly state what our red lines are when it comes to our data and our privacy.

Data governance Data regulation

Developing the mindset for analytics consulting

02 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

Ramneet Julka heads up the advanced analytics consulting practice at Barclays UK, helping Barclays clients to identify and deploy big data analytics. She told the audience at the DataIQ Summit what skills are needed by the members of a consulting team and the process she goes through when delivering advanced analytics consulting services. Toni Sekinah reports.

Data science Leadership Organisation and culture Strategy

Market Insight

Mind the Data Gap Sponsored by Royal Mail

The biggest challenge facing marketers remains the same - acquiring new customers. Alongside it, a new challenge has emerged - how to analyse data and gain ...

Analytics and insight Data governance Data management Data regulation

Privacy, Value and Ethics Report 2: Coping with the cautious consumer Sponsored by DQM GRC

This research report confirms that we have now entered the calm before the storm. We expect that ongoing investigations by the ICO will not only put the ...

Analytics and insight Data governance Data management Data regulation Organisation and culture

Privacy, Value and Ethics Report 1: In association with Crowe Sponsored by Crowe

This research report confirms that, while consumers will continue to want increased personalisation, speed and flexibility in how they transact and engage with ...

Analytics and insight Data management Organisation and culture

Seven steps to implementing successful artificial intelligence projects Sponsored by Outra

Utilising data and AI at a business level to drive the overall value of the customer is very different from using it at the tactical level to optimise a ...

Data science Organisation and culture Technology

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