The UKs general election took place last week, on Thursday 7 May, 2015. It was an election that had been hyped for being too close to call. According to the polls, the government was likely to be a coalition of one or more, with no party achieving a majority. It could have gone either way. Imagine the shock when the BBC announced the exit poll results: a landslide victory for a … [Read more...] about Were the UK Election Polls Marred by Poor Quality Data?
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Big Data Governance: Controlling and Handling Data
Accountancy within organizations has been around practically since the existence of organizations itself. As long as we can recall, we have kept track of what happened within an organization, or in the old days while farming or herding. The earliest records of accounting data back 7.000 years ago, from the ruins of Babylon, where the growth of crops and herds were recorded. … [Read more...] about Big Data Governance: Controlling and Handling Data
How to Define Big Data On Your Balance Sheet
In the old days IT was about saving money, while Big Data is about making money. If Big Data is about making money, it is about creating value and value should be placed on the balance sheet as an asset. A recent study by SAS showed that around 20% of the large UK companies are already assigning financial value to their data on the balance sheet of the company, so more … [Read more...] about How to Define Big Data On Your Balance Sheet
