How Network Rail CIO Aidan Hancock is using data science to speed up your commute

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How do you make trains run on time? It turns out you use a mixture of data science, analytics and cloud, according to Hancock

"I was brought in to bring innovation. No, I don't like the word innovation, either. It has the connotation of endless pilots." Aidan Hancock has been the CIO of Network Rail for just three mont...

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