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Behind the scenes on the Big Data debate kit

Today I went to Nottingham University’s Sutton Bonnington campus to talk to Prof Richard Emes, a bioinformatician. We sat in the coffee shop there and talked for two solid hours about Big Data, while my boyfriend took a walk in the Arboretum with our baby. (The campus is lovely, definitely worth a visit if you ever get the chance) Not only was it a fascinating conversation, but just before we left they started putting reduced stickers on the food in the display cabinet. We got two sets of ‘all-day-breakfast’ sandwiches, and four packs of tropical fruit cocktail, all for 90p! So if you are visiting, my tip would be to make it a Friday afternoon… I’ve been writing these debate kits for six years now (this is my seventh kit) so you’d think I’d have got the hang of it by now. But each one is a new challenge. The … Continue reading

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