“The golden rule is not to ask for information if you don’t act on it. It will add noise to…
If you’re not a moral statistician, should you call yourself a data scientist?
The Cambridge Analytica scandal prepares analysts, marketers and journalists for the next big step: to not be in awe of big data,…
What activists and marketers have in common: advocacy
Last weekend, I got to speak on anthropology and advocacy at the Rebellious Media Conference held at the Institute of…
What will 2021 bring? Robotics expert predicts a social future.
Prospect magazine asks: what will Britain look like in ten year’s time? Dr Kathleen Richardson, tutor, UCL Department of Anthropology,…
Can R&D be fun?
I went to an Open Data consultation workshop at Whitehall on Monday. It was great – I was impressed by…
Why charity websites don’t get people to be charitable
An interesting blog I stumbled upon, thanks to the leads provided by John Dodds of Make Marketing History. “Social networking…
The kind of joke that I’d like to do
Mr Doob’s Google experiment. I did propose to visualise some scientific data like this. The scientist got it and went:…
