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Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited by the Royal Institute to attend not only their Masterclass taster evening for anyone interested in STEM outreach. As I’m lucky enough to give a class in Bayesian Belief Networks, I was asked to go along and mingle and generally encourage others to start helping, volunteering, developing and… Continue reading What’s missing from the equation?

I-BDM and Bays Consulting are pleased to announce their collaboration with Fleetonomy as part of the UK MOD “Last Mile” challenge to develop an Uber-style drone delivery service enabling supply operators to command and control a fleet of unmanned air vehicles, undertaking simultaneous last mile missions.  This state-of-the-art project will ultimately reduce the resource burden to dismounted soldiers whilst providing… Continue reading I-BDM and Bays Consulting support Fleetonomy – winners of the MOD Last Mile Challenge.

On Mid-Summer’s Eve (June 21st 2017), Dominic Cassidy of Bricolage and Dr Sophie Carr of Bays Consulting came together to give a short, case study based presentation to the London Text Analytics Meetup group. Bringing together practitioners and researchers in the field of text analytics and natural language processing, this incredibly welcoming group provides a… Continue reading How ontologies and maths could help your company’s (and Will Shakespeare’s) bottom line.

Not so long ago I was fortunate enough to trial “no e-mail Friday” for the Institute of Directors. It had the immediate effect that it gave me time to focus on areas of the business which need thinking time, and also to just get work done without being disturbed. No e-mail Friday is still a… Continue reading How to Claw Back Some Time.

The first half of the year has disappeared in a flash and at times it’s felt as though I’ve been pushing jelly up a hill with chopsticks. There have been times when I’ve been deeply frustrated, and all I’ve seen to have had to show for my effort is proverbial bits of jelly scattered in… Continue reading Tips for navigating through curve balls.

I seem to have spent the last few weeks just writing. This has given me both sympathy with all those who are sitting exams at moment and hand cramp. I still like to write by hand as not only is this the easiest option on a train (which increasingly seems to be the place where… Continue reading The Key to Consistency.

I love lists. In fact I’ve even been known to make lists of lists. Not only that, but if I complete a task and realise it was never on a list, I’ll put it on just so I can cross it off straight away. I’m not a psychologist, but I do know that having lists… Continue reading I love lists (and data!)

Read the article online here:Reducing Canine Genetic Disease Reducing Canine Genetic Disease – A pro bono OR project by Ian J Seath of www.improvement-skills.co.uk and Dr Sophie Carr of www.baysconsulting.co.uk for the Dachshund Breed Council. The article was published in the Operational Research Society’s Impact Magazine, Issue 5 (pages 22-25) and is available online at: https://www.theorsociety.com/Pages/Impact/Registration.aspx

Over the past year Keen Marine and Bays Consulting have been working together on a study to support evidence-based ecological decision-making. The UK coastal zone supports a high diversity of fish species, many of which are caught by commercial fisheries as well as individual fisherman. Overall, the total value of the shellfish industry to the… Continue reading Fish and stats

This week Bays Consulting will be presenting a workshop at the Young to OR conference on: The Power of nodes and arcs: How Bayesian Belief Networks can help you reason, predict and explain. Whilst you may have heard of Bayes Theorem, have you ever built a Bayesian Network? If not, the workshop offers a practical… Continue reading How Bayesian Belief Networks can help you reason, predict and explain.