To vaccinate or not to vaccinate – or, when Uschi met Jezza - a podcast by Thomas Stoeckle (strategic business development, LexisNexis BIS; co-chair Measurement Commission, Institute for PR)

From our very own version of Numberwang, to utilitarianism, the precautionary principle, the Plague of Athens 430 BC, to Gartner’s latest tech trends, the SmallDataForum serves up another mixed bag of goodies and smarties.

I kick off by offering a selection of ciphers for our very own SmallDataForum Numberwang from

• 1 (Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s silly argument that 0.1 is “a real rise”), to
• 6 (the number of episodes of Adam Curtis’s latest take on the dark forces at play in our modern world), to
• 10 (the maximum prison sentence in the UK Government’s culture war inspired Crime Bill for violating a statue, which according to Labour’s David Lammy “makes protecting statues more important that punishing rape”), and related to 118 vs 1, (the number of women killed last year where a man was charged or convicted vs ‘statues killed’, as per the unrivalled Marina Hyde)
• 10 in 21 (the Top Ten data and analytics tech trends in 2021 according to Gartner) to
• 40 vs 12 (percentage of population COVID vaccinated in the UK vs EU average)
• 25,000 (excess UK COVID deaths due to the delayed winter lockdown, according to a new report)
• and last but not least, $450m (the sum Cision paid for Brighton based social analytics firm Brandwatch, leaving the three of us a bit speechless, and NOT AT ALL ENVIOUS of founder CEO Giles Palmer…)

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