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  • Architecture Thought Tool: Working out your Risks

    An Architecture Thought Tool I use when looking to identify any Risks in a projects or assignment is to use the STORMCLOUD method. This involves identifying the risks by going through the following areas: Schedule Technology Organisation Resources Methods Compatibility Lifecycle Over-engineering Users Dependencies Suppliers Once identified its then a case of mitigating the risks…

  • Data Scientist Job Titles, Architecture and Software Warlocks

    An interesting piece of research on Data Scientist Job Titles has been carried out from data on LinkedIn of over 10,000 professionals. The data splits out into 11 categories listing 700+ Job Titles: Recruiter Engineering Developer Data Plumbing Data Science Statistician Research Business Analytics Consultant Trainer Student The raw data is available to play with. I…

  • The Nature and Cycle of CPD

    Following on from my series of posts on the CPD and Learning Survey, another comment I want to look at is: The nature of CPD in the IT industry is such that professionals must invest their time in a range of activities, some narrow and focused on specific skills and others quite broad, keeping up with…

  • Cherish, Adorn and Construct

    In the front of each of my Journals I normally write a quote to help inspire the words I am crafting to tell my tale. The one I use the most is by Clough Williams-Ellis which I find helps me when considering problems and solutions as well as writing: Cherish the past, adorn the present…

  • Best use of 140 characters – Testing your Tweets to Get Retweeted

    Have you every tweeted something and then wondered why it gets retweeted or not. Did you word it correctly? Chenhao Tan has published a paper on how Wording Effects Message Propagation and created a tool called “Retweeted More“. The tool allows you to enter two versions of your tweet and analyses them based on an algorithm that…

  • TechDays 2015 Replays

    Following another set of great and useful Techdays 2015 online days hosted by Microsoft, the replay is now available for those who could not attend. The three days covered: Day one: Devices and Managing a Mobile-First World Day one evening: An evening with Office 365 Day two: The Journey to the Cloud-first World Day three:…

  • Mapping Social Media Clickbait in R and ggplot2

    Have you been caught out by the ever increasing world of Clickbait, enticed in with titles like “You’ll Never Believe What The Parrot Did Next!” in your Social Media feeds such as facebook. The main purpose of Clickbait is to get you to a site where adverts are displayed to get you to onward click…

  • Time to get chipped?

    There is a choice at the moment to wear or not to wear tech, but in the future will there be? An interesting article on the BBC tells of an office puts chips into staff. Whist this is not new – how long before you cant get your next job without getting chipped. As there are…

  • #YourActionBob! – Hashtags in Emails

    Hashtags, either love them or hate them, but they are here for the long term and they are spreading. Recently I have started to receive a number of emails (from different people) using the Hashtags for things such as #Max to indicate the bit that I need to read in the email when its gone to…

  • Sagacious Advice from Plautus

    Life today is busy and none stop. People work hard and strive to be the best at what they do, but how often do they stop and think: “Am I doing the right thing?” A quote I often remind myself of is “Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs…