Tech body demands more urgent action on gender gap
The UK’s tech sector is calling on government and businesses to accelerate efforts to close the industry’s gender gap despite…
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OMG signs deal with top marketing science institute
Omnicom Media Group is aiming to steal a march on its rivals when it comes to audience insight, innovation and…
Code for Girls reaches key target in training tech women
Code First Girls, one of the UK’s largest providers of free coding education for women, has revealed it has reached…
UK firms slug it out as battle intensifies for AI experts
The fight to attract the best artificial intelligence talent continues to rage across the UK, with data scientists the most…
Rapp appoints duo to senior marketing science team
Omnicom agency Rapp UK has bolstered its marketing science team with the newly created roles of senior vice-president of analytics…
Govt opens £17m AI student fund but firms must pay too
The Government is dishing out up to £17m in funding to create more scholarships for AI and data science conversion…
Experian asks: Do you have a data scientist’s brain?
Experian is launching an initiative to attract workers into the data industry with a series of “hard data” puzzles designed…
Betting firms gamble on data science to stop the rot
As William Hill Group becomes the latest business to be whacked in a major crackdown on industry failings, the betting sector…
Pressure soars as data becomes a victim of its success
The meteoric rise of data and analytics has become something of a poisoned chalice for chief data officers and their…
British children at risk of being the AI dunces of Europe
The Government will have to go back to school – quite literally – to achieve its aim of making the…