The Nasdaq listing businesses now wants racial diversity quotas
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The Nasdaq listing businesses now wants racial diversity quotas

To Reason, candidates should be only recruited on competencies, experience, skills, qualifications and ethics. Such divisive virtue-signalling is yet another concerning, ill-inspired, looking like quasi-racist coercion of the recruitment industry. A very worrying article saw on LinkedIn today. This movement about equality and diversity is not new. But it is seriously evolving now in a…

Introducing Praxis Insights Health Check: Making the Invisible, Visible
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Introducing Praxis Insights Health Check: Making the Invisible, Visible

How many hours each week do you typically struggle to secure reliable metrics and charts needed for your work? What’s the hidden cost of this struggle on your budgets, productivity, and overall business outcomes? What’s the point of investing in external providers or in-house teams delivering high-budget insights and analytics reports and dashboards if they…

CDEI publishes “Review into bias in algorithmic decision-making”
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CDEI publishes “Review into bias in algorithmic decision-making”

In the 92-page nicely designed and worded document, the UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation woes to address “bias” without providing any definition of what a ‘bias’ is. Originally published on the 6th Dec, updated 13th Dec. My attention was recently caught by a post on LinkedIn announcing that CDEI published a review into bias…

132 studies show HCQ is effective for COVID-19 when used early
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132 studies show HCQ is effective for COVID-19 when used early

Interested in Analytics and Insights fed by real Science and true Data?  The featured image of this post is a diagram showing studies’ reviews about HydroxyChloroquine. On the same website are also analysed Zinc, Remdesevir, Vitamin D and a few others. Since the beginning of the so-called ‘pandemic’, readers will remember how strong pressure was put on discarding…

Evening Standard: “No evidence of Covid-19 on Tube and buses”
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Evening Standard: “No evidence of Covid-19 on Tube and buses”

For the second month in a row, “No evidence of Covid-19 on Tube and buses in London, experts say”. So, where is Covid? “The testing in stations and on Tube trains and buses involved using machines able to draw in 300 litres of air every minute — more than a human can breathe in —…

Second lockdown data: key PM’s Advisers adding insult to injury?
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Second lockdown data: key PM’s Advisers adding insult to injury?

Mail Online Nov 2020: ‘Was lockdown sold on a LIE?’ Facts show infections and deaths are ‘flatlining’ while the ‘4,000 deaths’ graph used to justify restrictions has “proven to be incorrect” “Was lockdown sold on a LIE? Oxford scientist says Covid infections – and ‘in effect’ deaths – are ‘flatlining’ and the ‘4,000 deaths’ graph…

Fighting COVID with Data and AI by analysing wastewater
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Fighting COVID with Data and AI by analysing wastewater

Further information and interest emerge about advanced use of #data, including #AI to fight #COVID-19, by surveillance of wastewater. Executive summary Proper data and intelligent AI, associated with rigorous scientific research methodology help to better understand SARS-Cov-2  spread and protect the population from it. Further information and interest emerge about the advanced use of #data, including #AI to fight #COVID-19, by surveillance of…

GDPR Compliance: a trigger for Data Quality & Customer Excellence
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GDPR Compliance: a trigger for Data Quality & Customer Excellence

Fear not. You can kill more than two stones with one bird, can’t you? Reason Praxis shows you how. Executive Summary In this blog, we present a Praxis direct application supporting the idea that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance is an unknown and underestimated key allowing Shareholders and C-Suite Executives to unlock a…

New US federal draft Bill: the “SAFE DATA Act”
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New US federal draft Bill: the “SAFE DATA Act”

Last month, a proposal for a consumer privacy bill was introduced in the US Senate. What could become a new federal law is titled ‘‘Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability Act’’ or, in short, the ‘‘SAFE DATA Act’’. Click here to access the current Bill. Hereafter are the links to the press…

Wild Pear tree dating back 250 years hit by HS2 virus outbreak?
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Wild Pear tree dating back 250 years hit by HS2 virus outbreak?

The second oldest England’s tree voted tree of the year five years ago was chopped down to make way for the high-speed rail link despite promises, petitions and available technology to reroot it in a safer place.

Resilience Association Next Webinar: AGILE Workplace Evaluation
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Resilience Association Next Webinar: AGILE Workplace Evaluation

19 October 2020|Business Continuity-Resilience, Business Management, Good Governance, Performance management, Sustainability COVID-19 Exit Surgery & Strategy: Agile Workplace Advantages and Disadvantages (Free Zoom event) | Thu, October 22, 2020 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM BST About this Event and Booking The Resilience Association is pleased to provide you with another COVID-19 Exit Strategy Free to attend Webinar,…

Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice
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Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice

“There is nothing wrong in doing things right, first time” is Reason’s motto. Make Sense of your Data and ETL/ELT quality management. When it comes to data management and all ELT/ETL and data lineage matters in business, one can see what is physical such as cables but not what is travelling inside the cables and…