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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.

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

Why AI is not necessarily overhyped according to industry veteran

01 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

Mark Sheldon of Sidetrade, an organisation that provides B2B AI technology for the financial industry, is responsible for rolling out the use of AI across the company’s product portfolio. He tells Toni Sekinah how research and development operates at Sidetrade and why he doesn’t think the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is overused.

Data science Leadership Technology

Diary of a Data Project - Part 3

29 Jul 2019by Toni Sekinah

DataIQ has partnered up with Tech Nation UK to find out what happens when a dataset is interrogated to find insights. In this third and final entry, Diana Akanho of Tech Nation UK explains how her report on jobs and skills in the tech industry was concluded and presented, and what plans are in place for a similar project in the future. Toni Sekinah reports.

Analytics and insight Technology

Giving the UK a leg up on the world data science stage

29 Jul 2019by Toni Sekinah

Christine Foster heads up the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. Foster told an audience at the DataIQ Summit how businesses can get involved with and benefit from the institute, as well as how her organisation is mirroring the cross-disciplinary approach taken by its namesake Alan Turing.

Data science Technology

Don’t let data clichés hold back progress

24 Jul 2019by Andy Cotgreave

It’s easy to launch a new cliché into this industry - just put the word data in front of anything you can think of. Andy Cotgreave argues that despite the swarms of buzzwords, there really are useful new tools and data visualisation techniques lurking underneath.

Analytics and insight Organisation and culture Technology

Best practice advice for AI projects from IBM elite

23 Jul 2019by Toni Sekinah

Seth Dobrin of IBM has a lot of experience of running and participating in artificial intelligence projects. He tells Toni Sekinah why he is a fan of agile project management methodology, the hub and spoke model and why executive officers need to provide guard rails.

Data science Organisation and culture Technology

NEW! DataIQ Podcast - 5: Data mobility

23 Jul 2019by David Reed

In this edition of the podcast, Liz Brandt of Ctrl-Shift talks through the findings from its recent data mobility infrastructure sandbox and David Reed interviews Keith Dugmore, founder of the Demographic Users Group and winner of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Plus, a panel session from the DataIQ Summit on how to organise for automation.

Analytics and insight Data management Technology

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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

The Data Trends Report 2019 Sponsored by Apteco

The Data Trends Report 2019: Are You On Board With The Customer Journey? discusses the results of a quick-fire survey of over 270 data insight and marketing ...

Analytics and insight Data regulation Technology

Why tackling data issues is key to digital transformation Sponsored by Experian

Experian and DataIQ explore key findings from our recent Experian/DataIQ research exploring the how and why of digital transformation projects and practical ...

Analytics and insight Data governance Technology

AI-Powered Omnichannel Customer Marketing Sponsored by Agillic

Artificial intelligence is the alpha trend in technology right now and is having a sweeping impact on how marketing organisations work and approach customers. A...

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