The “You may be jobless but you are not worthless” fairy dust
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The “You may be jobless but you are not worthless” fairy dust

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

Another “motivational quote” on LinkedIn which, although positive and true in essence, ignores the brutal reality of the job market’s nurtured failures Quotes like these are numerous on LinkedIn or other social media platforms. Many look true even if sounding a bit like discovering that the water is wet. In fact, one will hardly witness…

Data Management and ETL/ELT: You Always Have the Choice
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Data Management and ETL/ELT: You Always Have the Choice

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

“There is nothing wrong in doing things right, first time” is Reason’s motto. Make Sense by adding discipline and order with ‘Intelligent Automation’ to your data lineage, and other ETL/ELT jobs. Initially published on 12 Oct 2020 | Republished on 15 Mar 2021 When it comes to data management and all ELT/ETL and data lineage…

Scientific Papers: What is ‘Reproducible’, and Does it Matter?
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Scientific Papers: What is ‘Reproducible’, and Does it Matter?

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

This scientific step is required to test in situ how the findings of published papers perform in real life on the occasion of repeated experiments. The paradox is that even transparent, accessible experiments may not be reproducible while enforced as if they were. Two illustrations but keep in mind it is all a bit more…

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

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

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

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

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”

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

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

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

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”

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

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?

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

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

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

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

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

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”

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

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…