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As our contribution to the bit of fun that is Throwback Thursday, we're taking a regular stroll in the Freeform Dynamics archives.  “Continuous innovation and real-time steering are needed in the ...

This is a guest blog by Andy Cotgreave, technology evangelist, Tableau Charts: they're all over the news. The NHS chief executive mocked others’ charts in their briefings; the science committee ...

This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bonthrone, Chief Executive, Esri UK. The UK’s housing crisis has reached a crunch point over recent years - and it’s now estimated that a massive 345,000 new ...

Sebastian Klovig Skelton’s article in this week’s CW ezine issue, ‘Auditing for algorithmic discrimination’ could hardly be more timely. The fall-out from the algorithmic exams fiascos of recent ...

This is a guest blogpost by Rich Pugh, co-founder and chief data scientist, Mango Solutions The things we do not know about Covid-19 seem almost endless. There are no clear answers yet to some of ...

This is a guest blogpost by Dean Stoecker, CEO, Alteryx Major global events force companies to think differently. The Covid-19 pandemic is no exception. In the first few weeks of the crisis, I ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ed Thompson, CTO and co-founder, Matillion. Jessica is a data analyst at a leading eCommerce company and is tasked with analysing the usage patterns of the business to ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ben Schein, from Domo, where he talks, in a very personal mode, about going over to the dark side, from a user organisation to a vendor, and has advice for other ...

The recent spell of sunny weather, after weeks of torrential rain, brought the masses out. A lovely Spring weekend. If only so. As television and online images revealed, “It was like a bank ...

This is a guest blogpost by Derek Thompson, VP EMEA, Boomi, which is a Dell Technologies business unit. If there’s one thing all organisations today can agree on, it’s that no one is asking for ...

In this guest blog post, Rob Davis, vice president of product management at MicroStrategy, discusses how CIOs can spread the use of data analytics to reach 100% of the enterprise. Enterprise ...

Product development in storage often feels like a bolting together of existing categories of product. You take one advance from here and mate it with another from over there. Getting the timing ...

This is a guest blogpost by James Fisher, SVP of data firm Qlik A little over a year ago we, at Qlik, started to outline our vision for the “third generation” of BI and analytics, which we ...

This is a guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, CEO, Neo4j, in which he explains how an elegant solution to the mathematical puzzle to find the most efficient way of traversing the bridges in Prussia’s ...

This is a guest blogpost by Andrew Filev, founder and CEO, Wrike. Since no business wants to leave money on the table, it’s tempting to try to squeeze as much productivity as possible out of your ...

One of machine learning’s most well-known use cases is fraud detection, an area that has drawn the attention of a growing number of technology suppliers looking to develop the best algorithms and ...

In a world where data is more readily available than ever, having analytical skills that will help you to make sense of data in day-to-day tasks is instrumental in career progression. But going by ...

IoT Back to Basics, chapter 2: In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) it is becoming increasingly important to be able to process, filter and analyse data close to where it is created, so it ...

IoT Back to Basics, chapter 1: The Internet of Things (IoT) is placing unprecedented demands on data storage, networking, processing and analytics. For end users, vendors and investors, it ...

This is a guest blog by Jayne Wilcock, curriculum and data manager at East Riding of Yorkshire Council ‘Technology gives the quietest student a voice’ and few would argue ...

Organisations need to plan for effective operational intelligence. This may involve the sharing of datasets between different organisations as well as identifying and sourcing external datasets. An ...

In the science fiction drama series Humans, Laura feels displaced by Anita, a humanoid robot known as a synth that was bought by her husband to help with the household chores. Imbued with ...

Software AG used presentations staged in the Italian capital Rome this week to describe some of its more life-changing data analytics work with Octo Telematics. US, UK and continental Europe ...

As organisations become more reliant on IT, problems with IT systems are increasingly unacceptable. The response is to invest more in tools to reduce the impact and cost of critical IT events.

Freely available company information may seem a challenge to monetise. However companies like Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), Experian, Bureau van Dijk, Graydon, Equifax and Creditsafe have been ...

On  the very eve itself of Microsoft's third major developer event this year -- Connect() 2016 in New York -- the firm has taken another directly open stride in its Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ajeet Singh, CEO, ThoughtSpot Despite the recent rise in data analytics as a “topic du jour” the concept has been around for over a century. “BI” as we think of it ...

As a football fan, it’s not often I get to indulge in a bit of technology-football crossover, but the Leicester City fairytale is too good an opportunity to miss. It seems it’s also a story that ...