If you’ve ever been in hospital, you’ll know that nursing staff regularly come round to your bedside to take a set of routine observations - usually every hour. These typically consist of measuring and recording your blood pressure, temperature, hear...

Big Data is everywhere these days. Its latest frontier is the humble washroom. Just about all of us at some point have been caught short using public facilities in restaurants, hotels or airports with either a lack of soap, toilet rolls or paper towe...

I don’t have much of a green thumb. Most of my plants eventually become dried flower arrangements by default. And working in IT, I know even less about farming than I do about gardening. At first glance you certainly wouldn’t think of Big Data and fa...