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Tom Betts

@tombetts

Data director @kingfisherplc. Alumni CDO @FinancialTimes. Views are mine, not theirs. I occasionally think about non-data stuff too.

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Joined February 2009
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I really want to know why this isn't the main FT headline
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Wonderful thread about the awesome questions asked by kids at the brilliant @wethecurious_ The museum is sadly closed due to the fire earlier this year but it is taking science activities on tour around #Bristol Give it your support: wethecurious.org/ #SummerInBristol – at Bristol, England
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With more than 200 eye-opening things to do and a planetarium, We The Curious is Bristol's most surprising science experience.

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Game of Throw-ins (@GameofThrowIns) profile pictureGame of Throw-ins@GameofThrowIns21 Jul 2022
Fucking hell Tom. I don’t need this right now.
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People of Twitter, thank you 🙏 for your kind words these past few days. Now more than ever we really need your support. You can help by: Giving this an RT Donating bit.ly/3LZ0hyN Buying gift vouchers bit.ly/32MR3yS Visiting our shop bit.ly/3xhwblW
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You can always count on @theboysmithy for next level data storytelling.. draw your own chart to test your climate change knowledge on.ft.com/3mCkQHl 👌🏻👌🏻
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Surprise!
Patrick McGee (@PatrickMcGee_) profile picturePatrick McGee
@PatrickMcGee_17 Oct 2021
Chart of the Day: @Apple’s advertising business has more than tripled its market share in the six months after it introduced privacy changes to iPhones that obstructed rivals, including @Facebook and @Google, from targeting ads at consumers. *A Thread*
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Covid vaccination updates every hour..amazing work from my former team. Their coverage of the pandemic alone is worth buying a lifetime subscription.
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Lots of you would LOVE to work as part of this. Tom's plans are big, career-defining potentially
Tom Betts (@tombetts) profile pictureTom Betts@tombetts13 Jan 2021
Hi data and retail twitter. I'm looking for folks to join me and build a brand new data team for Kingfisher Plc. More roles to come..for now leadership positions in data science, analytics and data platform development. DM me if you have questions!
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Hi data and retail twitter. I'm looking for folks to join me and build a brand new data team for Kingfisher Plc. More roles to come..for now leadership positions in data science, analytics and data platform development. DM me if you have questions!
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The $220m lesson in remembering your password nytimes.com/2021/01/12/techn… <<< wow
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I wonder how much of UK-EU trade deal has been copy & pasted from old 90s documents 🤔 p921 refers to Netscape Communicator 4.0 as a "modern e-mail software package" (it was last updated in 2002) and recommends SHA-1 as a hash algorithm (deprecated by NIST in 2011 as insecure)
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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em 😬
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“We at Apple believe that privacy is a fundamental human right"
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Govt constantly tells us to follow the science yet the one area they aren't supporting is science centres.. see the letter from @LindaLifeCEO in the FT for more ft.com/content/006e6d04-3ef8…

Letter: Give science centres the arts funding treatment

From Linda Conlon, CEO, International Centrefor Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Settling in to watch this antitrust vs. privacy debate 🍿🍿
Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik) profile pictureLukasz Olejnik
@lukOlejnik28 Oct 2020
Apple just got struct with a motion in France. For limiting user tracking. When you're a big business, privacy is one thing and anti-trust considerations - another. Case about this privacy-competition trade-off will surely be fascinating. #GDPR #ePrivacy ft.com/content/9b032f02-d6fe…
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I did this course 14 years ago and it changed my perspective on language as data. It's surprisingly easy to analyse text at scale. Highly recommended.
Walid Magdy 🇵🇸 (@Walid_Magdy) profile pictureWalid Magdy 🇵🇸@Walid_Magdy15 Oct 2020
All material of my course "Text Technologies for #DataScience" @InfAtEd is made publicly available this year, including recorded lectures, slides, and labs. New content is added every week. Feel free to follow & share with anyone interested. inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/course… #OpenScience
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It must be time to renew my membership of @EuSpRIG
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@guardian5 Oct 2020
How Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 Covid tests in England theguardian.com/politics/202…
Covid: how Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 test results in England

Covid: how Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 test results in England

Public Health England data error blamed on limitations of Microsoft spreadsheet

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The power of data, digital and tech..
Jonathan Eley (@JonathanEley) profile pictureJonathan Eley@JonathanEley29 Sep 2020
Ocado now UK's biggest supermarket by market cap - £21.66bn vs £21.06bn for Tesco (h/t @hwallop) In Dave Lewis's last week at work too UK sales: Ocado £1.6bn, Tesco £44.9bn Mkt share: Ocado 1.7%, Tesco 26.8% (Kantar) Group ebitda: Ocado £43m, Tesco £4.1bn
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