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Can small businesses and start-ups benefit from AI too?

13 Dec 2019by Toni Sekinah

Small businesses and start-up can get in on the AI action that may seem to be the domain of the tech giants. This was the view of DataJavelin’s Philip Rooney who made this claim to a room full of entrepreneurs and small business owners at a workshop. Toni Sekinah reports.

Powering strategic development with AI and machine learning

12 Dec 2019by Andrew Appel

Consumers are far more fickle, experimental and granular than ever. To move faster and predict their buying trends more accurately, businesses need to embrace new innovations in data analytics. Andrew Appel of IRI explains why.

Data science Organisation and culture

Driving data marketplace for improved junction judgments

06 Dec 2019by Toni Sekinah

Marketplace for driving data, wejo, is connecting those that have it with those who need it. The company states that by joining up supply and demand, it is helping to save lives, reduce congestion and emissions, and create a better all-round driving experience. Toni Sekinah hears from wejo’s Steve Pimblett.

Data science Technology

Assess biased algorithms with an ethical matrix

03 Dec 2019by Toni Sekinah

Cathy O’Neil is the author of the seminal book Weapons of Math Destruction, a book detailing how algorithms can deliver and amplify negative outcomes to the most vulnerable people in society. In a presentation at Teradata Universe, she talked about the concept of an ethical matrix and how these could objectively assess the positive and negative impact of algorithms on their stakeholders.

Data regulation Data science Technology

Reducing road traffic accidents with Predina predictions

27 Nov 2019by Toni Sekinah

Meha Nelson is the winner of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Award, one of three awards given to organisations and participants of the Open Data Institute’s Data Pitch accelerator. She told Toni Sekinah how GDPR affected the collection of data for Predina, the accident prediction company she co-founded, and how data is used to avoid collisions.

Data science Technology

Teradata keeps sports entertainment company happy

08 Nov 2019by Toni Sekinah

Dustin Spangler of Larry H Miller Sports and Entertainment has a huge variety of data to deal with as sports teams, a cycle race and a cinema chain, to name a few, fall under his company’s umbrella. He tells Toni Sekinah the challenges that he and his team face when dealing with that variety of data and how they went about choosing a cloud platform.

Analytics and insight Data science Leadership Technology

Wood Mackenzie putting energy resource data under the Lens

07 Nov 2019by Toni Sekinah

Energy industry research and consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie, has been integrating its numerous data sources into a single platform since the end of 2018. Karen Padir and Craig Foot tell Toni Sekinah how the platform Lens and its latest module are helping the company’s clients, consultants and researchers to locate and evaluate energy sources.

Analytics and insight Data science Technology

From proteomics PhD to top of the data universe

31 Oct 2019by Toni Sekinah

Yasmeen Ahmad, of Teradata, began her data career with a PhD in proteomics data. She tells Toni Sekinah about being a role model for women in data, the different attitudes to regulation in Europe and the US and why she is so excited by the prospect of personalised medicine.

Data science Leadership Organisation and culture Technology

Data scientists - time to brace for impact

29 Oct 2019by David Reed

We are stardust, we are golden. But data scientists could soon be finding themselves ushered out of the garden they have been enjoying for the last five years. The reason? In a down economy, companies look to cut out expensive overheads and replace them with the very automation they have been asking this function to build. David Reed explains.

Analytics and insight Data science Skills

The data dealings that take place when you fancy a flutter

23 Oct 2019by Toni Sekinah

Sporting Group generates prices for fixed-odds bet pricing for its B2B clients and offers its retail customers the opportunity to do spread betting. Peter Wallis of Sporting Group spoke to Toni Sekinah about the technology and data behind these high-stakes numbers.

Data science

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