The Met Office: Data science in an organisation full of scientists

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Data scientists better for finding answers to business questions, rather than scientific ones, suggests Met Office CIO Charles Ewen

Met Office CIO Charles Ewen has questioned whether an organisation such as his needs data scientists - when it has hundreds of its own, real scientists to draw on. The Met Office, says Ewen, gen...

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