Guest Columnist: Dave Convery

A bad workman always blames his tools. So does the entire western media, it seems, as poor old Excel gets it in the neck for some appalling calculation errors in economic papers.  Read more...

The big data revolution seems to have failed to materialise, and for good reason - it's really difficult.  Read more...

We're all used to storing and protecting data, but how often to we consider the data we're generating every day?  Read more...

Database people are used to changing the hardware of the server on which a problem database resides, or making changes to indexes and database settings, but humans and their organisations are far more difficult to tune and optimise than databases.  Read more...