Praxis Insights: Making the Invisible, Visible
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The “You may be jobless but you are not worthless” fairy dust
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…
Business Continuity-Resilience | Business Management | Good Governance | Performance Management | Sustainability | Visualisation / Insights
Data Management and ETL/ELT: You Always Have the Choice
“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?
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…
“Covid-19: Hancock’s failure to publish contracts was unlawful”, UK High Court
The British Medical Journal published on 19th Feb: “The UK government acted unlawfully in failing to publish details of dozens of contracts awarded without competition for goods and services such as personal protective equipment (PPE) needed during the cCvid-19 pandemic, a High Court judge has ruled.”
Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled And Pile Up in Landfills
Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives. A debacle waiting to happen promoted by green populisms. Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills. Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands…
Investigation of various Sars-Cov-2 strains by Pr Didier Raoult
A bit of (real) science never hurts.
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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”
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…
Reason Praxis Services: why do rigorous methods matter?
At Reason, we advocate reliable analytics based on real data and robust scientific methodologies. The above chart presents, published on 3rd Nov 2020, the number of SARS-Cov-2 cases (“COVID-19”, popularly) across the UK. In blue are the current real figures, and in red are all scenarii produced in preparation for the second lockdown. The chart…
Business Management | Good Governance | Performance Management | SARS-Cov-2 | Visualisation / Insights
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”
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 —…