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I Stumbled into Data Science by Accident | by Michael Kingston | Nov, 2021 | Towards Data Science

by vinova | 1 Apr 2022 | Cyber Security

I Stumbled into Data Science by Accident If a dummy like me can learn to code and analyze data, anyone can! It seems that people get into data science from all sorts of different backgrounds. It seems clear that there is no “best” way to get into the field. I thought it might be interesting to share my own story. I spent 15 years working as CEO of a manufacturing company in an LDC (Least Developed Country). Some demographic statistics (Source: http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/PNG) We’d been working to modernize our processes, with some successes and some failures, but we always learned something from the experience. My working life had been one improvement project after another for more than a decade, and honestly I loved it. Perhaps a topic for a future article. The latest was an ambitious project to change the way we plan and report production. For many years, our production planning process was unorthodox. Without consultation or communication with other stakeholders, the production manager would arbitrarily decide their production plan. This plan lived on an excel spreadsheet, which only the production manager had access to. The first time production data of any kind entered the company’s Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) was 24 hours after a days worth of production had been completed. Hand-written paper production record sheets were delivered to two production clerks who’s sole mission was to create new work orders in the ERP to match the production sheets, and immediately close the work orders. The quantity of finished goods would increase, and raw materials would decrease. We called this “back-flushing”. Everyone knew that it was not...

First ever Government Cyber Security Strategy to step up Britain’s defence and resilience

by vinova | 1 Apr 2022 | Cyber Security

Britain’s public services will be strengthened to further protect them from the risk of being shut down by hostile cyber threats, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Steve Barclay will say today. The minister will outline the cyber threat that government and wider public sector systems face in a speech today, as he launches the first ever Government Cyber Security Strategy. In the speech in central London, Mr Barclay will say that Britain is now the third most targeted country in the world in cyberspace from hostile states. The new strategy will be backed by £37.8 million invested to help local authorities boost their cyber resilience – protecting the essential services and data on which citizens rely on including housing benefit, voter registration, electoral management, school grants and the provision of social care. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Steve Barclay said: Our public services are precious and without them individuals can’t access the support that they rely on. If we want people to continue to access their pensions online, social care support from local government or health services, we need to step up our cyber defences. The cyber threat is clear and growing. But government is acting – investing over £2billion in cyber, retiring legacy IT systems and stepping up our skills and coordination. The new strategy outlines how central government and the public sector will continue to ensure that public services can function in the face of growing cyber threats. It will step up the country’s cyber resilience by better sharing data, expertise and capabilities to allow government to ‘Defend As One’, meaning that government cyber defence...

I Stumbled into Data Science by Accident | by Michael Kingston | Nov, 2021 | Towards Data Science

First ever Government Cyber Security Strategy to step up Britain’s defence and resilience

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