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Data and analytics articles

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Lyndsay Weir – Keeping quiet as a female leader

17 Jan 2020by David Reed

Lyndsay Weir is global data and analytics manager at Nestlé. At the Women in Data conference in November, she was named as one of the new list of female industry role models, the 20 in Data and Tech. She told DataIQ how being a female leader and role model can be done in a quiet way.

Bhagya Reddy – Engineering inspiration in data

09 Jan 2020by David Reed

Bhagya Reddy is principal data engineer at QuantumBlack, a McKinsey company. At the Women in Data conference in November, she was named as one of the new list of female industry role models, the 20 in Data and Tech. She told DataIQ what it means to her and shared her views on the sector.

Data science Leadership Skills

Data platforms: Helping data scientists do what they do best

16 Dec 2019by Alexander Igelsböck

Data scientists are highly sought-after, with demand for specialist data skills increasing over 230%, but they spend too much time on mundane tasks like data preparation. Using automated ETL could free them up for value-adding tasks, as Adverity’s Alexander Igelsböck explains.

Data science Technology

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.

Data science Skills Strategy Technology

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

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