tisdag 17 november 2015

Meet the woman helping Britain to make better decisions with data: Office for National Statistics director Heather Savory

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From: ComputerWorldUK
We look at Heather Savory’s impressive career as engineer, graphics chips pioneer, businesswoman, civil servant and open data guru.
Profile: Heather Savory, Director General for Data Capability at the Office for National Statistics
Wherever you look, organisations are trying to get to grips with data. Be it big data, open data, metadata, data science, working out how to collect it, store it, protect it, analyse it – it’s an increasingly important topic.
And it’s one Heather Savory knows far more than most about.

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