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  • The Echo Chamber Effect

    I was chatting with a colleague in the office about the survey I am currently conducting and he suggested that I be aware of the “Echo Chamber Effect” when analysing the results. So I went off to look further into this. So what is the “Echo Chamber Effect”. A line from Wikipedia sums this up…

  • Survey on IT professionals and CPD Hours

    Following on from my blog on IT professionals and CPD Hours and the survey I have been running to look at I am going to keep the survey open for another week as there has not been a high response so far. I am hoping for some more responses before starting to analyse the results…

  • Machine Intelligence Landscape

    A great info sheet from http://www.shivonzilis.com/ Larger version of this can be found at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qobt07e9skpk1z2/Machine_Intelligence_Landscape_12-10-2014.png?dl=0

  • Doctor Who: Friendly Dalek teaches you to code

    The BBC has announced a novel way to bring coding/programming to youngsters ( following the latest UK Governments initiative to bring the next generation of IT professionals) Using a Time Lord and their most dangerous adversary to teach 6 to 12 year old’s how to code. The BBC has unveiled a computer game called The…

  • Learn a Programming Language – But which one?

    If you want to get into the realms of programming and coding by learning a language or learn a new language, then this infographic from carlcheo.com is a good place to start. (Click diagram for a larger version) PDF Version available at: http://cdn3.carlcheo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/which-programming-language-should-i-learn-first-pdf.pdf Comparing coding languages as characters from Lord of the Rings, rating them on difficulty,…

  • Continuous Delivery Visualisations

    In one of my researching “DevOps and current state in the marketplace” moments, I came across these 4 drawings by Nhan Ngo (Engineer at Spotify) – (Distributed under a Creative Commons licence), that she created whilst reading a book called “Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))”…

  • IT Professionals and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Hours

    After a recent conversation with someone who works in the Dental Industry on development and learning, I learnt that they have to complete a number of CPD (Continuing Professional Development) hours a year and a minimum number over a 5 year period. Following this I carried out a short investigation into the amount CPD requirements…

  • Data Scientist Skill Set

    O’Reilly released a free downloadable report a while back that presents the results of a survey of Data Scientists across the industry – circa 250 respondents. The report looks at a list of skills and classifies Data Scientists into 4 main categories: Data Businessperson Data Creative Data Developer Data Researcher Under each of these headings…

  • Pen based Productivity Tools – The Chronodex

    Back on the subject of paper based tools today as one of the tools that I use has just had its 2015 release – the Chronodex by Patrick Ng. This is released in two halves and is available as a download  for the first half of 2015. (You will need a printer after downloading and…

  • How are you Networking with People

    People spend a lot of time behind electronic devices these days communicating with others through various forms of apps and social media. Have you ever stopped to think how many people you have actually spoken to face to face rather than through a GUI? I thought it may be useful to call out a Networking…