Perfect your data visualization today

February 15, 2018

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Take your career up a notch with our new data visualization course.

Our trainer, Andy Pemberton, who trains everyone from the United Nations to the European Central Bank to the European Commission on how to show their data off in the best possible way.

Join Andy and his team for one intense day that will elevate your reports and decks from good to the best your board have seen.

We’ll meet at tone of the world’s finest universities, University College London, for an action packed day of principles and practical workshops. We’ve even got a healthy lunch covered – all you have to do is bring yourself, your laptop, and your drive.

 

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Google Chrome will start blocking ads today

February 15, 2018

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The world’s biggest advertising company is about to embark on a new venture: blocking advertisements.

From today, Chrome, Google’s web-browser, will come with built-in blocking software.

Since Chrome has a 59% share of the browser market, that is a big deal. Online publishers, which depend on advertising revenue, will be worried.

Google’s plan seems to be to try to save the online-advertising industry from its own worst excesses.

Its blocker will affect only sites that display the most irritating sorts of ads, such as auto-playing videos with sound.

The firm hopes its filters will weaken the incentives for users to install third-party extensions that block advertising of all kinds, and which 30% of web-surfers already use.

But it will also hand Google even more power over the digital-advertising business.

The European Commission, which fined the firm €2.4bn ($3bn) last year for anti-competitive practices, has said it will keep a close eye on the firm.

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This table shows which region of the UK will be hardest hit by Brexit

February 9, 2018

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Ih a leader in today’s FT, Martin Wolff says the UK is in civil war.

He writes:

“How will this end? The answer is that anything is possible. When a country is this divided and its political processes are in such disarray, someone else has to sort things out. The EU will do so, because that is in its interests.

“The EU will not let the UK have its cake and eat it. It is led by people who also have a historical goal: not to return to the past. Their history was not British history and their aims are not British aims. They will determine the terms of the separation. We will then see whether the UK’s civil war is resolved, or renewed in other, yet more bitter, ways.”

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Twitter is back in the game

February 9, 2018

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Twitter shares jumped after the social-media firm reported its first-ever net profit and a return to revenue growth.

Monthly active users grew only 4% year-on-year, but the daily equivalent number rose 12%.

The addition of video content, a new algorithm that shows users the most relevant postings first and other improvements have persuaded advertisers to spend more on the network.

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Who spreads fake news? The right wing, says new study

February 6, 2018

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Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute monitored 13,500 politically-active US Twitter users and 48,000 public Facebook pages for 3 months.

On Twitter, a core of Trump supporters shared more junk news than all other groups put together. On Facebook, hard-right pages achieved the same feat.

 Fake news remains a huge headache for social networks and political leaders. A better understanding of how it’s shared could help clean it up

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Perfect your data visualization with my new workshop

February 6, 2018

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“Thanks for the very informative course yesterday. The phrase ‘no title, no infographic’ is now printed and blue tacked to the cupboard behind my desk.” Nic Benton, ICMM

“A big big thank you for the workshop yesterday –I’m so thrilled I went along, and I’ve already started thinking about how to do what I do better.” Leonie Le Borgne, Action Against Hunger

‘Thanks for the great training. It was really good. I am sure I will now be able to present my plans.’” Christine Bryan, European Central Bank

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