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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

Of course it can be argued that you can use statistics (and Google Trends in particular) to prove anything [1] , but I found the above figures striking. King was a wise King, but now he was gripped with uncertainty. – McKinsey 2009. . [6]. For example in 20 Risks that Beset Data Programmes. . [7].

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

In our modern architectures, replete with web-services, APIs, cloud-based components and the quasi-instantaneous transmission of new transactions, it is perhaps not surprising that occasionally some data gets lost in translation [5] along the way. I explore some similar themes in a section of Data Visualisation – A Scientific Treatment.

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