The Anonymous Widower

Zopa’s Courageous Decision

I have believed for a long time, that certain databases should be made public, so that they can be properly analysed.

Suppose for example that a suitably anonymised database of all road deaths, was to be made available.

I will not speculate as to what it might show.

But you can rest assured, that some parties would not like some of the obvious conclusions that were thrown up.

How about to a detailed database of all those in prison?

Because of the power of data analysis, I was very surprised to read that Zopa has decided to make their loan data available for analysis.

It is a very courageous decision, that I hope gets other companies and organisations to do the same thing.

November 18, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | Computing, Finance | Zopa