I was in a meeting recently and had the horror of witnessing someone referring to a data ingestion process as “the data being slurped in”. Once I’d recovered from this moment, it did get me thinking, why are we all so obsessed with talking about data like its water?

Whilst recently driving home from our Butterfly Christmas party I discovered at entirely the least opportune time that Google had seen fit to make a pretty impactful functionality change…

I cannot actually remember the first time I ever ‘Googled’ something. For many years my search engine of choice was Dogpile (which likely really dates me!)…

I recently attended Big Data LDN, one of the biggest tech exhibitions and conferences in London and I was really excited by the latest kind of technology that was being showcased…

The Quick Response, or QR code, was originally invented by car manufacturer Denso Wave in 1994 to track car parts as they were being built on Japanese assembly lines. The chief engineer Hara Masahiro drew his inspiration for the codes from his passion for board gaming..

One of the first ever programming environments I used was a scripting language inbuilt into my Texas Instruments TI-83 calculator, which I needed for my Maths A-level…

One of my pet peeves when working in the education sector was the attitude often taken to training. It would not be uncommon for someone to spend, what often appeared to be, a relaxed day away and then return declaring themselves to have been ‘trained’ on some important subject that was going to revolutionise learning…

Last month while exploring Madrid I visited El Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de España (MUNCYT) [National Museum of Science and Technology]. An exhibition on product development over the last 150 years caught my attention for a couple of reasons. The description read:

All objects we are using, at this very moment, are doomed to obsolescence…

Do you ever find yourself asking yourself at the end of the day “where has the time gone?!” With the ever-increasing plethora of modern technology available, much of which is designed to make our daily tasks quicker and easier, it would be simple to assume that life would be less hectic…