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MADwDATA has three key strands:
- A series of live events
- A community platform for sharing and demonstrating ideas for data release and use
- An online news service for data news, features and opinion
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The Sunday Papers 30:03:14 a policy wonk's weekend reading
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How will the public sector protect its data?
This year’s Budget has been seen as a positive one for the technology industry on many levels, but more could have been done.
IT systems need to cope with the exponential growth of big data
The inevitable increase in big data over the next 5 years will pose problems unless IT systems can cope with the growth, an IT expert warns.
The wasted lesson of 10 years of NHS patient experience data
The NHS is failing to use the information it collects to improve patient care quality, researchers from Oxford University have said.
