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Dropbox resurrects Clippy
Were you a fan of Clippy, the anthropomorphised paperclip that followed you around with cutesy advice when you were trying to use Microsoft’s Word? If so, you’re in for a treat. Dropbox are so happy...
View ArticleFrom the ashes of Nokia rises Realm, a database that runs on 500 million phones
My first mobile phone was a Nokia 3210 which, according to Wikipedia, was one of the most successful mobile phones in history. Nowadays, anyone who is typing “Nokia” into a search engine is probably...
View ArticleThe human spreadsheet
Ben Evans paints a vivid picture of technology replacing humans in a recent blog post describing the 60s film The Apartment: In effect, every person on that floor is a cell in a spreadsheet. The floor...
View ArticleThe Software Paradox – book review
Over the weekend I came across a great book (via Hacker News – where else) being given away for free from O’Reilly media called The Software Paradox. I always used to recommend Eric Raymond’s...
View ArticlePitch deck collection
I came across this via the private Seedcamp Slack channel and it’s been very useful recently. It’s a collection of pitch decks various different companies have used when they have been fundraising....
View ArticleWomen in tech: It’s not just a pipeline problem
Rachel Thomas, math PhD, software developer and instructor at the Hackbright Academy recently wrote an article about women in tech titled “If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem, you...
View ArticleFacebook has 113 open data positions
If you’re interested in data you should subscribe to the Data Elixir newsletter, curated by Lon Riesberg (@lonriesberg). He recently highlighted Facebook’s career page for Data and Analytics folks....
View ArticleHadley Wickham: The statistics celebrity and R programmer
Hadley Wickham is famous. The kind of famous where people at statistics conferences line up for selfies, ask him for autographs, and are generally in awe of him. Sureley that’s the best kind of famous....
View ArticleMapping the fortunes of Silicon Valley
The Economist did a great piece on Silicon Valley a couple of weeks ago and along with the article they posted an excellent interactive map on their website. The map shows the geographic location of...
View ArticleThe slideshow listicle: When metrics win and common sense loses
As an avid Arsenal supporter, I’ll read almost anything the UK newspapers write about them. I’ll read The Guardian, Telegraph, Times and even papers I otherwise try to avoid like Metro and the Evening...
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Prediction: In ten years we’ll have ten different iPads
Apple just unveiled the iPad Pro. Yesterday, the Verge reported thus: Apple has unveiled its latest addition to the iPad tablet lineup during a special press event in San Francisco this morning. Like...
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Datasmoothie feature preview: Adding visualisations into reports
At Datasmoothie we’ve been hard at work building what we sometimes refer to as “the Medium.com for data”. In essence, Datasmoothie allows you to hook raw data into our servers (via an upload or a...
View ArticleThis month’s best internet rant
Discovered via A VC.com, the best rant you’ll read on the internet this month is this talk given by Maciej Ceglowski, founder of Pinboard: On Poland vs San Francisco: It struck me as I looked out...
View ArticleAirbnb is to hotels what low-cost airlines are to the airline industry
This summer we were fortunate enough to visit one of my favourite cities, Paris, on two separate occasions. In June we went for a holiday in Champagne and stayed in a hotel in Paris for two nights and...
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Board games are getting better (confessions of a former role player)
At the time I would probably not have admitted to it in certain circles, but in my teens I was an enthusiastic player of role playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Cyberpunk. The rule book for...
View ArticleThe Economist on the problem with Clayton Christensen
The Economist’s Schumpter column published an article on Clayton Christensen last week called Disrupting Mr Disrupter. The author isn’t quite as harsh as I was the other day but is sceptical...
View ArticleMachine learning in the real world
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I studied neural networks, the methodology that underpins much of machine learning, as part of my master’s degree in computer science. At the time it was a...
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Football statistics visualised (and how data is giving Arsenal an edge)
In sports the term “moneyball” refers to using statistics rather than gut instinct when it comes to recruitment and strategy. Recently, football is being moneyballed to a greater and greater extent. My...
View ArticleThe democratisation of branding
I’ve discovered two restaurants recently via the food delivery service Deliveroo. Giving the founder of Deliveroo a hug is on my bucket list but that is another story. The two restaurants are achieving...
View ArticleMIT PhD student explains why self-driving cars (probably) won’t lead to the...
Machine learning is all the rage these days. Last year’s FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year was “The Rise of the Robots”, a bleak prediction of how machine automation will take more and more...
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