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NEW! DataIQ Podcast - 13: NatWest Group and Department for Education

07 Jan 2021by David Reed

In this edition, we have two extended interviews. Lynn Usher, data capability manager, talks about the NatWest Group Data Academy, winner of the 2020 DataIQ Awards Grand Prix. And Neil McIvor, chief data officer and chief statistician at the Department for Education, talks about holding two very different roles.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Grand Prix: NatWest Group data and analytics

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

The NatWest Group data academy not only provides formal learning development across data science, data engineering, decisioning, ethics and governance, performance and insights, it is also yielding outputs from up-skilled workers that are providing business benefits. Open to incumbent practitioners and across the bank, it has already trained nearly 600 practitioners and over 4,000 non-data colleagues.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Most innovative use of AI: Merkle and Spirit Energy - predictive analytics for operations

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

Processing gas leads to the generation of carbon dioxide which can lead to a trip or shutdown of the plant, costing Spirit Energy £3.6 million annually. Merkle applied artificial intelligence to sensor data to create a predictive model, giving plant operators valuable early warning of problems.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - The Professor Derek Holder Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr Sachiko Scheuing

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

Having started her career as a marketing database analyst, Sachiko switched into data protection at the end of the 1990s. She has been Acxiom’s European privacy officer since 2005 and has also been co-chair of FEDMA since 2014, bringing a clear understanding of both the needs of analysts and the demands of data protection regulation to her work and her lobbying.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Data for good champion: Jamie Barnard, Unilever

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

Trust in digital channels has been declining. As a digital media lawyer, Jamie Barnard felt a strong sense of responsibility to address this challenge. Working with the World Federation of Advertisers, its transparency advisory board was rebranded as the WFA data ethics board, and his report, “The rise of morality in technology,” became the world’s first guide on data ethics for brands.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Best use of data by a not-for-profit organisation: Open University OUAnalyse

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

OUAnalyse is one of the very few analytics systems available that has been tested, applied and rolled out, and has shown, through systematic evaluation, to improve student learning at a large scale. It has been developed to predict whether students would submit their next assignment and presents the outcomes to teachers.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Best data ethics and privacy initiative: DQM GRC and WarnerMedia

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

As one of the world’s largest entertainment corporations, WarnerMedia views privacy-by-design as part of its global vision. It approached DQM GRC to develop a training programme that encouraged employees to view privacy as a creative challenge and help people from across different teams understand each other’s perspectives.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Best privacy enhancing solution: Instinctive BI - Project gold: De-identification solution

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

Lacking adherence to data protection legislation, a financial services institution engaged Instinctive BI to develop a programme to address the risks and mitigate the client’s exposure. Its solution delivered a comprehensive set of core assets and re-engineered key processes to minimise and control the capture, use and storage of personally identifiable information.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Best data story or data visualisation: JLL global KPI project

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

As a global business, JLL has multi-million dollar accounts with KPIs that need to be reported monthly. This involves aggregation of multiple data sources to ensure metrics roll up from site to country to region to global level. Using KPIs to direct the business has put business intelligence right at the heart of the organisation.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Most effective stakeholder engagement: Vodafone Covid-19 big data and AI response tool

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

When the Covid-19 pandemic started to impact on society globally, the Vodafone big data and AI team focused its resources onto emerging use cases, like epidemiology and financial inclusion. These have helped to inform government and institutions in their crisis planning in multiple countries.

Market Insight

Customer-first, but are data and technology falling behind?In Partnership with Acxiom

With so much data, more stringent regulations, and higher customer expectations today, learn how brands are using data to understand and engage customers ...

Business transformation - Catch up or get caught outIn Partnership with ENGINE

We know that digital transformation has never been more important, but the fact remains that most programmes under-deliver or fail
outright. Some research ...

New data, better businessIn Partnership with Barclays

This simple five-step guide summarises the attributes one needs to look out for when evaluating new data providers. As data becomes ever more important as a ...

How to enter the DataIQ Awards 2021

The DataIQ Awards 2021 will honour both companies and individuals that have demonstrated excellence in the data industry over the pasts 12 months. This eBook ...

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