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Richard Veryard In this post, I’m going to look at three types of data, and the implications for data management. For the purposes of this story, I’m going to associate these types with three contrasting metals: bronze, gold and mercury. (Update: fourth type added – s…
In a recent discussion on Twitter prompted by some examples of erroneous thinking in Computing Science, I argued that you don’t always need a philosophy degree to spot these errors. A thorough grounding in statistics would seem to settle some of them.@…
One of the things I learned from studying maths and philosophy is an appreciation of what things follow from what other things. Identifying and understanding what assumptions are implicit in a given argument, what axioms required to establish a given p…
In his latest speech, invoking the spirit of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Michael Gove calls for bold, restless experimentation.Although one of Gove’s best known pronouncements was his statement during the Brexit campaign that people in this country have…
Continuing my exploration of the four dimensions of Data Strategy. In this post, I bring together some earlier themes, including Pace Layering and Trimodal.The first point to emphasize is that there are many elements to your overall data strategy, and …
How far can general principles of asset management be applied to data? In this post, I’m going to look at some of the challenges of putting monetary or non-monetary value on your data assets.Why might we want to do this? There are several reasons why p…
My 2012 post on the Co-Production of Data and Knowledge offered a critique of the #DIKW pyramid. When challenged recently to propose an alternative schema, I drew something quickly on the wall, against a past-present-future timeline. Here is a cleaned-…
The lie detector (aka #polygraph) is back in the news. The name polygraph is based on the fact that the device can record and display several things at once. Like a dashboard.In the 1920s, a young American physiologist named John Larson devised a vers…
At @imperialcollege this week to hear Professor David Hand talk about his new book on Dark Data.Some people define dark data as unanalysed data, data you have but are not able to use, and this is the definition that can be found on Wikipedia. The earli…
#OIILondonLecture An interesting lecture by @VickiNashOII of @oiioxford at @BritishAcademy_ this evening, entitled Connected cots, talking teddies and the rise of the algorithmic child.Since the early days of the World Wide Web, people have been concer…
John Reilly of @RealTown explains the terms Assemblage and Plottage.Assemblage is the process of joining several parcels to form a larger parcel; the resulting increase in value is called plottage.If we apply these definitions to real estate, which app…
Clinical trials are supposed to generate reliable data to support healthcare decisions and policies at several levels. Regulators use the data to control the marketing and use of medicines and healthcare products. Clinical practice guidelines are produ…