Embarrassment of riches: how shrinking big data can boost business and tackle office politics

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Big data is no use if all it does is sit on a database, argues Paul Alexander

I've been reflecting recently on how language conditions our lives both in and out of the office. How often are we led to believe, for example, that ‘big is beautiful'? That perception informs o...

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