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SA Mathieson

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Past articles by SA:

The importance of improving data quality at source

Data replication crises have struck government and scientific data quality efforts. A lack of scrutiny over data being used at source has led to oversights from national statistics to financial auditing. → Read More

Computer simulation at work for the future of nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion works, just not yet well enough. Learn how software simulations running on modern supercomputers and data science are lighting up possible paths forward. → Read More

Specsavers clinicians used company data to spot Covid referral collapse

At Big Data London, Specsavers’ global data officer related how clinicians used company data to spot Covid referral collapse. → Read More

Half of three departments’ key risks concern technology

Credit: Succo/Pixabay Half of the key risks identified by the Department for Work and Pensions, the Home Office and HM Revenue and Customs in their 2021-22 annual reports involve digital technology and data, compared with just over two-fifths in 2020-21. In their 2021-22 annual reports published this summer the three organisations identified a total of 28 key risks, 14 of which make reference to… → Read More

How digital technology rescued Merlin

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the CTO of Merlin Entertainments – operator of Legoland, Sea Life and Alton Towers – to find out how digital saved the company when Covid shut all its theme parks. We look at how software and data analytics can help to track – and reduce – greenhouse gas emissions. And Southern Water explains how data helps to support its most vulnerable customers. Read… → Read More

How to track greenhouse gas emissions

Companies from a range of sectors, as well as public authorities are using software and data analytics to track greenhouse gas emissions, partly to meet new regulatory demands. → Read More

How algorithmic automation could manage workers ethically

Managing workers by algorithm and automated process has generated ethical problems aplenty. Can such means be pressed into the service for a more ethical mode of worker management? We find out. → Read More

How data analytics drives wind turbine power generation

Data analytics and related software lies behind the burgeoning wind turbine industry, with predictive maintenance to the fore. We find out how. → Read More

How to make AI greener and more efficient

Artificial intelligence promises both to combat the ill effects of climate change and to make the emergency worse with excessive energy use. How can AI be made greener? → Read More

How software can help clean up emission-intensive industries

The potential to reduce emissions by making heavy industries and commercial buildings more efficient using software is immense. We explore the field. → Read More

Big Data London: Mitigate AI bias rather than try to remove it, say experts

Bias cannot be stripped from AI systems, but organisations can work to mitigate it, Big Data London 2021 attendees heard this week. → Read More

Big Data London: NHS Digital data service struggled with Covid testing demands

A critical component of NHS Digital’s data processing struggled to cope with demand caused by Covid-19 testing, Big Data London 2021 attendees heard this week. → Read More

How the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium sequenced Sars-Cov-2

Consortium of universities and other institutions has harnessed datasets, analytics and cloud computing to sequence Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in a blisteringly short time. → Read More

Covid-19 and the art and science of data visualisation

The pandemic has seen political leaders and civil servants using data visualisation like never before – but there is more to the art than meets the eye. → Read More

Digital use of vehicle tax and driving test services spiked in April

Digital use of vehicle tax and driving test services spiked during the initial Covid-19 lockdown in April but has since fallen back, according to data published by the Department for Transport. Data from three high-volume processes – vehicle tax renewals, statutory off-road notifications and driving test bookings – shows that in autumn 2020 use of digital channels generally returned to levels… → Read More

How to monitor remote workers humanely

Monitoring workers who work remotely has taken on a whole extra dimension in the Covid-19 pandemic year of 2020. Financial services firms are among those which suggest some ways to do it humanely and legally. → Read More

Learning on the job when working from home

Learning a new job and inducting new hires when working from home has become the temporary new normal has been tricky for employees and employers alike. We look at workarounds some of which could become the post-pandemic normal. → Read More

The UK government’s ‘flawed and misleading’ Covid-19 data

In this week’s Computer Weekly, the coronavirus data relied upon by the UK government is ‘flawed and misleading’ say experts – we examine the implications. Ikea talks about how it turned to the cloud to deal with the impact of the pandemic. And we look at the digital transformation underway at credit card giant Capital One. Read the issue now. → Read More

UK government coronavirus data flawed and misleading

Government Covid-19 coronavirus data has been a miasma of inexactitude, often basically flawed and misleading, writes SA Mathieson. → Read More

Designing software to include older people in the digital world

The coronavirus crisis has accentuated the importance of including older people in the digital world. How can software firms design products to include generations that came to maturity before the internet? → Read More