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Attracting talent with work-life balance - Issue #72

Attracting talent with work-life balance - Issue #72
By Xavier van Leeuwe • Issue #72 • View online

The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab disects what a recommendation experience is lacking right now and in what direction they are moving. The author rightly feels that the current state is poor. Using social graph provides a good look at the types of topics your network is interested in, but it fails to understand the nuances of personal interests. 
“For example, the fact that I follow friends who tweet about sports doesn’t give my preferred news organization any signal that, while I enjoy basketball stories, I don’t enjoy baseball in quite the same way. My reading history — lots of more basketball stories versus few baseball stories — might provide just that level of information.”
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Smart home tech the next frontier for publishers
Smart home tech the next frontier for publishers
More on the personalisation front. The impact is not clear to me but in the category `nice features´ here is how users will be able to build individualised news experiences based on their own news interests with Google Home. The home device supports ten news categories, including general news, technology, sport, politics and entertainment.
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The Global Data Journalism survey studied the current state of data journalism in newsrooms across the globe, quizzing 181 respondents from 43 countries. Although the majority of those who took part in the survey (86 per cent) considered themselves data journalists, only half of participants had formal training in data journalism. There is some work to be done.
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New program to get literate with data
“If we want to make the case that data is good for democracy, it can’t only be good for democracy for IT people and tech people.”
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In the Netherlands ING bank pulled a stunt recently by offering a whole month of parental leave for fathers. And it makes sense. A new generation of talent wants time to spend a good life rather than more money and more power.
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