The last three weeks have been introductions for many into the world of what is needed to achieve business success as far as your data is concerned. This topic is one where the certainties are normally the legal limits of what you can do. In other words, it can be a tricky landscape to navigate....Read More
What kind of environment have you been cultivating at work, how is your data literacy? Are you aware of the rationale behind the data your organisation collects, why and how? What do you understand about your data? If we take the term improving the health of your data culture, have you any idea of the...Read More
Ethics, its massive, it’s a word that is on everybody’s lips. It implies fairness and justice, equality. Ethics is – “the philosophical discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong”, so it intersects hugely with values and bias. Remember morals are defined by values and values are defined by...Read More
Announced in early 2023, Fabric is the name being given to a largely existing suite of applications within Azure (and O365). Bringing all data services under a unified heading. There are simplifications and deduplication within the structure as (currently) separate workloads can be unified for more business benefit. So, where’s the rub? Let me...Read More
I started Geordie Intelligence as a response to what I was seeing both in the corporate world around Data Analytics and big data where correlation and causation were becoming muddled to say the least. The final straw for me though was the Covid-19 Pandemic. I was working for a company at the time so was...Read More
“The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.” Joseph Stalin It is easy to be fooled by the quote and think that, of course, we would not possibly think that the deaths of millions could be less important than the death of one. However, turn on any news...Read More
In Physics, Power is defined as the transfer of energy Simon Sinek – Leaders Eat Last For me, I first stumbled onto the work of Simon Sinek when something appeared on a timeline, either Linkedin or Facebook – I forget which – and his video about business metrics and team development from the perspective of...Read More