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Caution, all: what the rise in police cautioning can teach us about data, decisions and relevance

Caution, all: what the rise in police cautioning can teach us about data, decisions and relevance

Apr 18, 2013 by nsones in Data, Empathy, Relevance, Strategy Tags: , , , , ,

A week or so ago Evan Davis was interviewing the Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire, asking why so many seemingly major crimes (burglary, some sexual and violent crimes) were being dealt with by issuing formal cautions, rather than involving courts. This felt, initially, reasonable: Sex crimes! Violence! Theft! These surely must be punishable, across the board, [...]

The Big Data ocean needs navigators, or us creatives won’t be able to swim

The Big Data ocean needs navigators, or us creatives won’t be able to swim

Mar 14, 2012 by nsones in Blog, Data

The world is data. We know that. Everything that uses data, separately, is now coming together and converging. Yep. We know that too. So what’s new? In our industry, unless you’re really immersed in data, it’s easy to tell yourself you know these things without actually looking at them. We are living in an unanalyzed state [...]