How RBS's 'data guy' built a bank-changing data lake

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RBS's Christian Nelissen talks to Computing about how his 'Superstar DJ' data lake and analytics have become central to the bank's decision making

The Royal Bank of Scotland's data analytics team is headed up by Christian Nelissen - a man with one of the more unusual job titles in IT. Officially known as "The Data Guy", Nelissen started at RBS...

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