The power of data, digital and tech..

It must be time to renew my membership of Dr Simon Thorne

I did this course 14 years ago and it changed my perspective on language as data. It's surprisingly easy to analyse text at scale. Highly recommended.

Settling in to watch this antitrust vs. privacy debate 🍿🍿

Govt constantly tells us to follow the science yet the one area they aren't supporting is science centres.. see the letter from Linda Conlon in the FT for more ft.com/content/006e6d…

“We at Apple believe that privacy is a fundamental human right"

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em 😬

I wonder how much of UK-EU trade deal has been copy & pasted from old 90s documents 🤔 p921 refers to Netscape Communicator 4.0 as a "modern e-mail software package" (it was last updated in 2002) and recommends SHA-1 as a hash algorithm (deprecated by NIST in 2011 as insecure)

The $220m lesson in remembering your password nytimes.com/2021/01/12/tec… <<< wow

Hi data and retail twitter. I'm looking for folks to join me and build a brand new data team for Kingfisher Plc. More roles to come..for now leadership positions in data science, analytics and data platform development. DM me if you have questions!

Lots of you would LOVE to work as part of this. Tom's plans are big, career-defining potentially

Covid vaccination updates every hour..amazing work from my former team. Their coverage of the pandemic alone is worth buying a lifetime subscription.

Surprise!

You can always count on Alan Smith for next level data storytelling.. draw your own chart to test your climate change knowledge on.ft.com/3mCkQHl 👌🏻👌🏻

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Wonderful thread about the awesome questions asked by kids at the brilliant We The Curious The museum is sadly closed due to the fire earlier this year but it is taking science activities on tour around #Bristol Give it your support: wethecurious.org #SummerInBristol

I really want to know why this isn't the main FT headline