Monthly Archives: October 2018

As a founding member of The Data Literacy Project alongside Qlik, Accenture, Cognizant, Pluralsight and the CIM, Experian is supporting the Data Literacy Project to help organisations, educators and individuals speak the language of data. Today, data literacy is as important as reading and writing, but we're facing a significant skills gap.

In my last blog we looked at the rise of IoT and some of the challenges that organisations are facing around the privacy and security of data. But what about the data itself? Whilst there might be more data out there than ever before, for it to be useful there’s some very important groundwork to be done.  Let me explain.

Those of us who’ve been in technology and data for a while know a ‘hype’ when we see one. I’ve personally been through the hype cycles of CRM systems, the Cloud and big data. We’re now seeing more and more in industry and mainstream press about the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.

I won’t cover the latter in detail (as I, like most people am still trying to understand it!) but will look at how smart fridges, connected cars and pretty much every device you can think of are presenting our societies with huge opportunities but also a major data quality headache.