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Is your focus on prediction weakening your Data Science work?

Is today’s focus on prediction, rather than explanatory models, weakening the commercial impact of data teams? A challenge from Harry Powell.

April 30, 2021

Film-maker & leadership coach, Ty Francis, shares his experience of how to lead organisations through adaptive change or wicked problems.

April 23, 2021

Prof Nick Radcliffe makes the case for why clustering your customers is a bad idea that wastes analysts time & delivers suboptimal marketing.

April 21, 2021

Harry Powell tackles the critical issue of how leaders behave when being presented to. Improve your behaviour with his half-third-sixth model

March 30, 2021

Chief Data Scientist, Richard Pugh, explains how data thinking & design thinking can improve on the popular software-first project approach.

March 22, 2021

Tony Boobier shares lessons from “Thinking Fast & Slow” for the challenge of what mindset is needed by analysts & those interpreting data.

March 10, 2021

Prof Nick Radcliffe debunks a claim about Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Pool & thus shows us how to develop a sense of scale for some big numbers.

February 26, 2021

Harry Powell, Director of Data & Analytics at JLR explains how he calculates the incremental profit his team generates down to an income line

February 24, 2021

Why you Analytics team needs a measure of their ROI. Harry Powell argues for the benefits of profit as the best metric of the value-added.

January 28, 2021

Are you a novice, explorer, practitioner, expert or master? Do you want to journey on to becoming a Master of your craft? Here’s how you can.

January 20, 2021

Practical advice so you don’t drown your unicorn (data science or analytics) as demand grows within your business, from Harry Powell (JLR).

January 18, 2021

Should your data & analytics capability have a market valuation of over $1bn? Harry Powell shares why you may have a unicorn in your attic.

January 13, 2021