Forrester highlighting the desperate need for data literacy as the adoption of analytics technologies accelerates amid the current downturn. Coupled with the recent release of the UK Government’s new National Data Strategy, Silicon UK asks whether the data literacy of businesses is mature enough to deliver value and innovation.
Data is now the most important commodity all businesses possess. Managing what can be vast databases of information needs a new role. The Chief Data Officer is vital to ensure the data available leads to insights and commercial opportunities.
Security firm Avast announces it is immediately winding down Jumpshot division and terminating data sharing with it, following privacy scandal
Data is your business’s most precious commodity. Finding value and actionable insight in Big Data are vital components of all successful enterprises
Interview transcripts indicate Leave.EU benefited from Cambridge Analytica’s work, parliamentary committee says
Facebook is to notify users if they were one of the 87 million people whose profiles were harvested by Cambridge Analytica, as it suspends another analytics firm
Facebook boss finally breaks radio silence over Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal
GCP NEWS: Google makes it cheaper for customers needing to complete high computational tasks
A culture of experimentation is enabling Trainline to streamline the web experience for customers through data-driven insights
Wimbledon will test out a series of new tools and services at this year’s Championships
Collecting vast amounts of data is all well and good, but you need to be able to do something with it
Software will be integrated to improve application performance and enhance the user experience
Big data overload and over-complicating things are two factors holding businesses back
The full-time course will involve a combination of data science, business acumen and management skills
Teradata has undergone a transformation of its own, with a new focus on solving business problems
The information commissioner is to investigate whether citizens’ data was used illegally by the Leave.eu campaign ahead of the Brexit vote
Traditional data sampling and analysis methods that worked well for decades suddenly failed during the Presidential election of 2016
A British study suggests artificial intelligence could quickly spot fact patterns likely to lead to particular decisions
GSK is to draw on Alphabet’s electronics and data analytics know-how for a new spinoff
Google’s DeepMind machine-learning business has been granted access to detailed live and historical data from the Royal Free NHS Trust
UK IT workers say far more must be done to boost the sector, which wasn’t even mentioned in the Government’s budget speech
Governments are failing to keep up with the pace of technical innovation, finds Gartner
Partha Sen, co-founder of Fuzzy Logix, has crunched the numbers and analysed a whole lot of data to predict who will win the Super Bowl
Hold please. Telephone merchants of PPI claims and solar panels could utilise real-time voice-analytics to improve rapport
The partnership is expected to further the role of high-performance computing and data sciences in the UK
Coaches can now use data packed iPads to help players during WTA tennis matches
IT outsourcing and managed services specialist, Advanced 365, offers its top tips on defending against new cyber threats
Utility giant teams up with GE to connect up to 4,000 wells across the world within the next few years
Big data and analytics pushing Formula One forward into new era, CIOs reveal
Intel officials say performance gains and features in the Xeon E7 v3 chips will challenge IBM Power and Oracle SPARC in the high-end server market