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Tom Dewar: Mar 2023
If you're an RStudio user using Posit Workbench and want to use GitHub for source control (you should), this is the guide for you. There are two ways to connect: SSH and HTTPS. Named for the different protocols they use under the hood. If your...
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Tom Dewar: Mar 2023
Many companies investing in data analytics struggle to achieve the full value of their investment, perhaps even becoming disillusioned. To understand...
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Tom Dewar: Oct 2022
We are cursed to live in interesting times. As I write this, a war in Ukraine rumbles on, we sit on the tail of a pandemic and at the jaws of a...
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Stewart Williams: Sep 2022
Since the global financial crisis there has been greater recognition that models serve many important strategic purposes for financial services...
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Vincent Mok: Sep 2022
If there seems to be confusion around the practical implications of ESG, much of it stems from the demands it places on finance professionals to...
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Garkay Wong: Mar 2021
It is very difficult for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to go beyond checklist exercises despite everyone’s best intentions. Much of...
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Stewart Williams: Nov 2020
While talking to one of my colleagues recently, she challenged me to put down in a mind map all the things I thought organisations needed to consider...
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Tom Dewar: Aug 2020
There are a lot of hot takes on the current exam results crisis. Amongst the cacophony of critical voices, you will even find a few offering...
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Stewart Williams: Aug 2020
I don’t know what the collective noun is for analysts, but if you don’t have one on your benefits management team, you could be looking at fuzzy...
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Dr. Mathew Davies: Jun 2020
Selecting a poor analytical modelling technique undermines a project before it starts. Choosing a good technique that’s wrong for the problem is as...
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Stewart Williams: May 2020
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is one of the UK’s leading sight loss charities and forms the largest community of blind and...
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Dr. Mathew Davies: Apr 2020
Managers rely on analytical models to inform difficult decisions: where to build that next hospital; how to allocate resources during the next...
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Mike Hallard: Apr 2020
For nearly all procurement professionals, it's tough to produce bespoke tender evaluation systems again and again. After painstaking work defining...
