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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.

It’s been quite a busy week – from Monday to Saturday a different city every day. That’s a lot of hotel full English breakfasts (alas I don’t have the will power to only have fruit if someone else has kindly prepared a huge buffet) and hours on trains. Travelling for work isn’t, in my experience… Continue reading How to maintain your sense of humour when travelling.

I’ve written, deleted, altered and tinkered with this blog more than any other. That’s probably because this is the one blog I’ve put off writing for as long as I can remember – it’s the blog that I thought would always be my first, but never finished. It’s not taken me ages to write this… Continue reading My life with Bayes Theorem.

Words have not always been my best friend, which is probably why it took me so long to start using social media or writing for my own website. I somehow got through school with only a passing ability to spell and to this day take a mathematical approach to grammar: randomly scatter and by chance, some… Continue reading Words have not always been my best friend.

I’ve made it to halfway through the week and truth be told I’m absolutely exhausted.  The rhythm and pattern of life which comes with running a small business has been the same as always – trying to stay on top of cash flow, sales pipelines, marketing, fee-earning work…that endless cycle which I love being part… Continue reading Finding Patterns and Trends in Data.

Every week I have a catch up brew and chat with the lovely lady who runs our website and social media accounts. It’s a really nice way to start the morning and every single week I’m asked the same question – when are you going to write something for the website? To be honest, it never really… Continue reading Hans Rosling has died. The Maths Scholars salute a master.