Cleaning up! How Northumbrian Water deployed big data to identify potential flood risks

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Northumbrian Water's Adrian Holmes-Morris lifts the lid on Project SNIPeR, a big data project designed to identify potential floods before they happen

When Northumbrian Water needed to put together a system to help it better handle potential flooding incidents, business intelligence team leader Adrian Holmes-Morris found that the organisation alr...

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