Last week I attended my first Executive Leader’s Network in Reading. There is another one in September and while it’s a long way away it might be worth considering. I was asked to host or chair or lead a round-table discussion which turned out to be me standing up in front of twenty five or … Continue reading Unfolding plans 46 – What is digital?
Unfolding plans 42 – we’ve got loads of data
Big data is like therapy, the answers are in there you just need help to get them out. You need to like back on the couch and regress. Blame your mother, your home town or the conditions you had to endure. Let it all out. The main issue with any open data project is not … Continue reading Unfolding plans 42 – we’ve got loads of data
Unfolding plans 24 – the true test of artificial intelligence is for it to deliver something unpredictable
It’s an interesting concept. How do you test artificial intelligence? It is a concept that is difficult to define yet we all can understand that human intelligence is different from so called artificial intelligence. I’ve already said in a previous piece that I struggle with the definition of artificial intelligence, or machine intelligence as all … Continue reading Unfolding plans 24 – the true test of artificial intelligence is for it to deliver something unpredictable
Unfolding plans 23 – bad data gives off the repulsive odour of decay
Aren’t graphs great? You can make them say whatever you like. Play about with the x and y axis and you can make things look better or worse as you wish. Alan showed us some at the extended management team to do with channel shift. The optimists amongst us saw the lines getting better while … Continue reading Unfolding plans 23 – bad data gives off the repulsive odour of decay
A year of work in progress – day 223
Day 223 – 24 December 2014 So here it is, the last working day of my year and so the last day of this blog. I managed to get there without missing a post and without running out of things to say. Sometimes the words tripped off the ends of my fingers and there were … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 223
A year of work in progress – day 221
Day 221 – 22 December 2014 This morning was not ideal for a ride on a horse. It was dark, wet and very windy. Not that I was on a horse. I haven’t been on one for a long time. It was way back in the last millennium, in the Lead Hills in South Scotland … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 221
A year of work in progress – day 220
Day 220 – 19 December 2014 Have you ever imagined what it would be like to navigate in space? I mean deep space. Back here on Earth in a sort of Euclidian way it is easy. We can safely assume that getting from B to A is just the reverse of getting from A to … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 220
A year of work in progress – day 219
Day 219 – 18 December 2014 Four meetings with your boss in one day! Who arranged this? OK, I don’t mind meeting up with him, I have some things to say and we get on well enough but you can have too much of a good thing. One of them is our Resources Management Team … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 219
A year of work in progress – day 218
Day 218 – 17 December 2014 I wrote this during breaks in a Microsoft event at the Hilton Hotel in Gateshead. I was logged on to Durham’s system using our virtual private network and through the hotel’s wireless network. I had caught up with my email however before I had left home to get the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 218
A year of work in progress – day 217
Day 217 – 16 December 2014 I don’t think that I’ve ever been to Derby before that is until today. I’d been passed it, perhaps even through it but don’t recall ever stopping there. I might have been there for the football in the dark and distant past. This morning five of us made the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 217
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 