It does have uses in Digital Transformation thoughWith the announcement of Facebook’s proposal for a blockchain-based currency, I thought it would be a good idea to get in to the subject … It’s time. Time to talk about Blockchain, my apologies.
Here’s a couple of articles to get you up to speed:
The Ambitious Plan Behind Facebook’s Cryptocurrency, Libra - Wired
Top Democrat calls for Facebook to halt cryptocurrency plans until Congress investigates - The Verge
My apologies, in the last issue I omitted to tell you that this week I will be taking a short break from the newsletter. All is fine and I’ll be back next week with a new issue.
See you next week. Thanks for your understanding.
Using some basic statistical analysis, you can extract value fairly simplyBienvenue/Welcome to all the new subscribers. Thank you so much for signing up. Don’t forget you read all the archives here. Let me know if you have any comments.
On to this Issue.
After the last few issues giving you practical advice on your data’s worth, I thought I’d take a different direction and give you a step-by-step tutorial in basic data manipulation, with the aim to extract value from it.
It’s all about softwareAfter a couple of practical issues, I thought I’d get back to analysis and strategy — kind of the initial reason for this newsletter 😄 Hope you enjoy it.
Onwards with this issue.
Security and Privacy Wars
A long time ago, in Internet terms, we had a war of security between Unix and Windows. Windows, the new shiny up and coming OS was open by default and that openness enabled all sorts advances, but like anything it can be used for good and bad and that openness allowed a lot of bad things to happen, some that we are still dealing with decades later.
Data collection and turning that data into an assetGood day, all. This issue is a continuation from Issue 15, I encourage to read it before reading this issue, it’ll help your understanding of this one as it continues on the theme of data and its importance in Digital Transformation.
I recently recorded another podcast with Kadia Francis, the Digital Jamaican. You should check out her blog and podcast series, really good stuff.