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Aug 2022
25m 42s

Data Dazed and Confused?

Publicis Groupe
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Rishad talks to Timandra Harkness, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, broadcaster, and author of Big Data: Does Size Matter? about the uses and abuses of data during Covid and what we might expect in our personalised century. 
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