This is Horatio, a plant who has had a troubled life. He was displaced at a very early age, ripped from the only roots he knew. Neglected and not watered for days, and with little hope to achieve his aspirations. Then, one day, he was transferred into the pot you can see here and rescued…
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Procurement in a post-Brexit world
The impact of Brexit on UK housing providers is still unclear and is very much dependent on how the UK’s relationship with the EU is redefined – whether or not UK makes budget contributions to the EU, agrees to either free or restricted trade and movement of people, or even refuses to give any element…
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Topological data analysis
Computers are reasonably good at analysing large datasets, but there is one class of problem where they require a bit of help from puny humans – high dimensional datasets. By ‘high-dimensional’, we mean ‘wide’, as in lots of columns. When we have wide data, it’s very hard to spot commonalities across a number of those…
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Data – From connections to projections
Data: it’s the stuff of IT. We hear about it all the time. Databases, datasticks, data lakes, data quality, data mining, data analytics. Just as with IT and iPads, so the consumerisation of data has led to everyone having an apparently expert opinion on what it is, what it’s for, what’s wrong with it and…
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Sovereign’s enterprise GIS
Geographic Information System (GIS) technology has been transforming how we do things here at Sovereign Housing over the past four years, bringing data to life and influencing our future strategy as well as our day-to-day work. Following a recent merger with Spectrum Housing Group, we’re now one of the largest housing providers in the country…
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Getting identity right is key to digital strategies
The faster pace of digital transformation has led us all to review what we are doing as businesses, how we are doing business, and how we are digitally serving our customers. As housing providers and local authorities put more of their services online, we’re seeing some great examples of creativity in the way that they…
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