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As promised this is the next post in my series of becoming data driven in decision making regardless of the nature of your business. It has been proven time and time again that businesses which are making decisions based on good data or good quality...
In my previous post around becoming a data driven organization I explained how doing so can be of immense benefit to any organization. It enables far better decision making at all levels of your business. Having said that it is a very challenging pro...
The Graph (GRT) A decentralised protocol whose core function is to index and query data from blockchain networks such as Ethereum and IPFS, The Graph makes possible the querying of data that would otherwise be quite cumbersome to query directly. Esse...
Craig Ruurds, CTIO of South Africa’s leading streaming service delivery company KwikTec, explores innovation processes that ensure secure delivery of IT infrastructure and application solutions As enterprise demand for product marketing and service...
Today I received a promotional email from an online gambling and betting platform. In the mail they offered me a few free games in the slots of the platform in exchange for providing my data and confirming it by means of an image of my current person...
Hey guys :) I’m back with another comprehensive Q&A piece, this time for the decentralized data exchange protocol – Ocean Protocol (OCEAN). Ocean Protocol aims to unlock user data, so it can be used productively rather than simply stored by huge corp...
Facial recognition technology has been floating around, loosely adopted, since the early part of the last decade. Among its popular use cases today is in mobile phones and gadgets as a way for users to conveniently unlock their device. (Though plent...
Last December, I had the chance to sit down with John Fawcett in a Boston coffee shop soon after his company, Quantopian, announced its shock-and-awe Series C. That round had been led by Andreessen Horowitz and included a host of top VCs, along with...
Well, almost. If you’re reading this, you’re probably one of those people who don’t like Big Tech (Google, Apple and Microsoft being the most prominent) very much or at least give alternative Technologies a shot. Good for you, you still have an open...
When the big data boom grabbed headlines in the early 2000’s, it was because the high-tech industry allocated R&D efforts to develop new data-driven applications for their businesses. Out of these developments came the rise of predictive analytics. I...
