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Power of 3 - Big Data's been watching you: your hired!
18 April 2013 at 15:02
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Tags: Power of 3, Employment
Big data can sound a bit Orwellian. Like a huge computer programme that makes decisions about human destiny and orders us about by numbers. In reality finding patterns in information characterised by data coming at dizzying velocity, volume and variety...
P3 - Beating Barleycorn with the help of Mr Will Power
14 February 2013 at 13:28
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Tags: Learning, habit, Willpower
Sorry for the absence of power of 3. I have been exercising a lot of willpower in pursuing the Cancer research Dryathlon challenge and thought I'd use this post to share some of my learning. Many of us including me need to control our relationship...
P3 - A whole new meaning to “computer says no” (New Scientist 8 Dec 2012)
19 December 2012 at 08:00
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Tags: Power of 3, Technology, Employment
If you have heard of Mechanical Turk a bizarrely named crowd-sourcing service run by Amazon look it up. It parcels out tiresome and specialised jobs, like number plate recognition or book transcribing to a network of willing hands. In our Steady State...
P3 - Bargaining with the new Blackbeards (Economist 1 December 2012)
17 December 2012 at 08:00
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Tags: Power of 3, Pirates, Reward
Modern day pirates have the same incentives as they did in Jack Sparrow's time, namely booty or looted goods. Of course they tend to use guns and rocket launchers and steal routine cargo or hold people hostage. >Governments often panic and pay...
P3 - Temporary In-Santa-ty?
14 December 2012 at 13:00
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Tags: Power of 3, Christmas
Maersk Santa probably heading for the UK with Christmas There a recurring story in the UK press of a massive Chinese Ship which carries Britain’s Christmas on board. Christmas is generally a very irrational time. We buy for people who generally...
Power of 3 - How the pain of rejection can be more than poetic (New Scientist 1 Dec 2012)
05 December 2012 at 09:00
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Tags: Power of 3, Empathy, Neuroscience
When we hurt either through lost love, snubbed feelings or even bad feedback we are likely to think of the pain as just a metaphor. Now researchers have sought to demonstrate that a broken heart or more accurately a broken brain is real. So if you have...
Power of 3 - Labour economics: How Danish dads rake in more dough when mum delivers (Economist 24 Nov 2012)
03 December 2012 at 09:00
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Tags: Power of 3, parenthood, equallity, Wages
It's a strange irony to begin with this, featured in The Economist A study designed to test if senior people could earn a wage premia for having children. This was rolled out in equality smart Denmark. What happened? They couldn't find enough...
Power of 3 - Islands of satisfaction and unhappy Valleys
30 November 2012 at 12:00
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Tags: Power of 3, welfare, unemployment, happiness
Well being is a key issue in today's workplace and a new report from the New Economics foundation (NEF) nails it with a compelling statistical investigation. They investigated new data from the Annual Population Survey with four questions on people's...
Power of 3 - Why counting crows could be a reality as much as a rock band
26 November 2012 at 09:00
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Tags: Power of 3, Mathematics, Brain power
Power of 3 - This is a blog series on stuff that catches my eye and actually means that I know something about a lot of issues which, if I wasn't curious, would pass me by. It's about being 'clever shallow' as I outline in our SSRS report...
Power of 3 - China goes doolally for pigeon racing
01 November 2012 at 09:00
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Tags: Power of 3, Pigeons, China
The Glaswegian in me laughed like people used to laugh at Frankie Boyle before he became crassly cruel. It seems according to the economist Oct 27 that the Chinese have taken up pigeon fancying as a status symbol. Here's an amazing trio of facts about...
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