Moving from data to insight and from insight to action

There are different types of organisations in this world and those different types of organisations – be they businesses, charities, third-sector bodies, or Government departments – spawn fundamentally different cultures that endure. In my space – where we work to empower organisations to make smarter use of data, to drive evidence-based decision-making – there’s a […]

ANSWERS TO “2023 QUIZ”

“2023: The Year In Numbers” , the annual data storyteller’s New Year quiz So, if you’ve got here, you’re after the answers to the 2023 quiz, The Year In Numbers. But if you’re still working on those answers using your memory and brainpower, click here to go back to the question page now! . . […]

“2023: The Year In Numbers”

The annual data storyteller’s New Year quiz Every Christmas Eve, my family and two others gather together for a seasonal celebration. Like other families across the country, right across the world. We’re brought together by long and deep ties. Ties made of ham, egg, and chips. Of champagne, panettone, and all sorts of ice cream. […]

Why insight and analytics professionals aren’t doomed by AI

For years, many knowledge economy workers have felt a sense of unease about the prospect of artificial intelligence taking their jobs. But the threat was vague and non-specific, the realm of dystopian science fiction and not any kind of real and present danger. Then, in November last year, OpenAI made its AI chatbot, ChatGPT widely […]

From Greg Rusedski’s practice partner to Van Gogh Alive

This blog first appeared here on the website of the Brighton Chamber. Insight Agents‘ Chief Data Storyteller, Sam Knowles, goes on a journey of artistic discovery with Greg Talbot of Van Gogh Alive, who was a guest speaker at our latest Chamber Breakfast. “If you’d have told me three years ago that I’d be standing up […]

Podnosticators are go!

Good things often come about from happy accidents. The Small Data Forum is one of those things. Thrown together for a chance, corporate, fire-side chat in May 2016, my fellow podcasters Neville Hobson, Thomas Stoeckle and I had such a good time chatting at a data industry event that – at Neville’s suggestion – we […]

The Home Secretary’s repeated data storytelling fails

There are many things one could say about Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, and her carefully-chosen words, designed to capture headlines in the more hysterical sections of the right-wing media. Many – including Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker – have drawn parallels between Braverman’s inflammatory language and that used by historical political regimes looking […]

In praise of Motty – it was 25 years ago today

On Thursday this week, I was working in and around BBC TV Centre in Wood Lane, White City, West London. I’m spending more and more time in this area, partly because it’s a thriving and growing media hub, partly because I’ve got a major client just around the corner. It was a cold day – […]

ChatGPT – the perfect apprentice for the data storyteller

There’s a whole lot of panic going on about ChatGPT, particularly among those who write for a living. Those who write copy, those who write strategies, and those who write training courses. There’s a sudden, ice-in-the-bowels terror among purveyors of HI or Human Intelligence that OpenAI’s Generative Pre-training Transformer will soon put them out of […]