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Qualitative data is important too UPDATED

October 25, 2019

I'm a great believer in using different kinds of data to measure how well pupils are doing, not all of which are quantifiable in the usual sense.

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In Infographics, News & views, Reflections, On this day Tags Rebecca Solnit, Chip Ward, tyranny of the quantifiable, data, big data
Big Data, by Terry Freedman

Big Data, by Terry Freedman

Data for its own sake is pointless

June 5, 2019

Unless data can be turned into information, what’s the point of collecting it?

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In Infographics, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views, Reflections Tags Bett, data, big data, pointless

Qualitative data is important too

October 25, 2017

I'm a great believer in using different kinds of data to measure how well pupils are doing, not all of which are quantifiable in the usual sense.

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In Infographics, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views, Reflections Tags Rebecca Solnit, Chip Ward, tyranny of the quantifiable, data, big data

Our lives in data: privacy

May 16, 2017

How much data are you prepared to give away, and what are you prepared to allow organisations to do with it? The answers in my case surprised me.

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In Computing, Discussion topic, News & views, Reviews, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags AI, big data, artificial intelligence, Science Museum

Big data infographic

September 22, 2016

Here is a big data infographic I produced in 2014.

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In Infographics, News & views, On the lighter side, From the Archives Tags big data, infographic
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