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News11 February 2019

easyJet data scientist joins Just Eat

Takeaway food delivery company Just Eat has appointed easyJet’s Alberto Rey Villaverde as chief data officer. 

Feature6 February 2019

Journey through the urban jungle

Tim Phillips

With population densities increasing, the rise of more flexible work and living spaces, and shifting modes of transport, understanding the urban citizen is more complex than ever.

Feature6 February 2019

How ‘sludge’ joined our vocabulary

Crawford Hollingworth

From pressure selling to hidden add-ons, companies are profiting from people's innate traits and fallibilities. Crawford Hollingworth reflects on the concept of sludge, looking at what regulators are doing to crack down on the behaviour.

News24 January 2019

Counter Intelligence Retail rebrands to The NPD Group

York-based travel retail data specialists, Counter Intelligence Retail (CiR), has announced it will be rebranded as The NPD Group.

News23 January 2019

Commuters contribute £23bn to UK economy

Commuters spend around £22.8bn each year during their commutes, according to a report from media agency Kinetic, media owner Exterion and the Centre for Business and Economics Research (Cebr).

News27 November 2018

Uber fined by ICO over data hack

Uber has been fined £385,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to protect its customers’ information in a series of data breaches in 2016.

News23 November 2018

Junk food ads to be banned on London transport

Advertising of high fat, salt and sugar foods will be banned on the Transport for London (TfL) network from 25 February, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has announced.

Feature20 November 2018

Three little words

One start-up is rethinking the way that addresses work, with data potentially simplifying navigation in hard-to-reach, remote parts of the world.

Opinion19 November 2018

Limited choice of online interfaces

Rory Sutherland

Rory Sutherland questions whether internet searches would be improved if randomness was incorporated.

News29 October 2018

Weave launched by ex-Incite trio

Full-service qualitative and quantitative agency Weave Research has opened for business.

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