Jason Foster

I wrote about what a CEO should expect from their CDO for @Forbes: 📈A focus on business value 🔝Build high-performing teams 🗺️Give clarity of direction 👨‍🔬Innovative ways of working ⭐️A culture of decision-making with data forbes.com/sites/forbesbu…

@JJheeta You too sir 🙌🏻

Great to catch up with ⁦@mrjasonbfoster⁩ last night

@JonSpurling1 This was horrible. Three times when we scored!! Make it stop.

Why has the #Arsenal stadium announcer started demanding that we repeat each player’s name twice? We’re not in a bloody ‘O’ Level French class, mate. #COYG #ARSMANU

@WHOOP This is a great feature addition - I now dont leave walks running for 2 hours after I finish them! Can you do it for the strength trainer also?

Stay in the zone with the all-new Live Activities widget 📱 Tap + and start an activity to easily view your heart rate, heart rate zones, workout duration, distance, and speed without unlocking your phone. Available for iOS members only

@PureGym I’m trying to change my home gym but the gym isn’t listed. St Albans just doesn’t appear in the list either in the home gym or secondary gym list even though it’s a gym and it’s my current home gym. Can you help?

@TrungTPhan You asked? Someone did it > @tomfgoodwin

New York City paid Mckinsey $4m to conduct a feasibility study on whether trash bins are better than leaving garbage on the street. The deck is 95-slides long and titled “The Future of Trash”. Some highlights: ▫️The official term is “containerization”, which is the “storage of waste in sealed, rodent-proof receptacles rather than in plastic bags placed directly on the curb.” ▫️Two main types of containerization: 1) individual bins for low density locales; 2) shared containers for high-density. ▫️NYC needs to clean up 24,000,000lbs of garbage a day ▫️Containerization has only become the norm worldwide in major cities in the past 15 years. ▫️New York City first considered containerization in the 1970s but never conducted a feasibility study until now (Mckinsey’s sales team has been dropping the ball) ▫️Key considerations for container viability: • POPULATION DENSITY: NYC has 30k residents per square mile (more dense than comparable big cities) • BUILT ENVIRONMENT: Few places to “hide” containers due to history of infrastructure development. • WEATHER: Snow creates challenges for “mechanized collection” in the winter. • CURB SPACE: Mostly taken up by bus stops, bike lanes, outdoor dining and fire hydrants. • COLLECTION FREQUENCY: NYC needs to double frequency of pick-up for estimated speed of trash that bins would accumulate. • FLEET: A new garbage truck will needs to be designed to collect rolling bins at scale. ▫️ The proposed solution (literally garbage bins and shared containers) covers 89% of NYC streets and 77% of residential tonnage. ▫️The three case studies — because you gotta have solid case studies — are Amsterdam, Paris and Barcelona. ▫️There is a slide called “Why containerization matters” and three reasons are “rats”, “pedestrian obstruction” and “dirty streets” (the 21-year intern that did this slide billed at prob $10k an hour is my hero). The study is actually pretty interesting. I have no idea if $4m is a rip-off to learn that “yeah, we should put garbage in bins so rats don’t eat it” but I would have happily done it for 10-20% of that budget (and come to a similar conclusion).

Congratulations to @Baringa, @CynozureGroup, @ekimetrics, @PwC, @smithinst for making the 2024 #DataIQAwards Best Place to Work in Data (Enabler) shortlist!

@tomfgoodwin @WHOOP Oh really? Thats a shame - help me 'fix' my sleep! We know the things that help get better sleep, the importance of sleep and the negative health impact limited/bad sleep has on people. Im sure there is loads we dont know.

@mrjasonbfoster @WHOOP Was useless for me. Gave totally inaccurate readings. Also. My point is we don’t know much. We have no clue why some people sleep twice as much as others etc

It always seems weird how little we understand sleep. Both as a whole , but also our own sleep

@WHOOP please can we have a feature that nudges us if a workout looks finished. 30 min walk, and 2 hours later I realise it’s still running!

Zara win self checkout.

Their social game is so bad! Ive not yet seen a summary of their policies! Just lame meme after lame meme! If we're gonna get this lot...be good to see what they actually plan!

@jamrock We’ve just switched over platforms so will start to soon but don’t for this episode unfortunately

@mrjasonbfoster do your podcasts have transcripts? I need to take in every word of this but I read better than I listen

@mrjasonbfoster your most recent guest asking you “if you use LinkedIn much” and lol because if he did then he’d know you definitely did (relevant episode and fully locked into this one)

@jamrock Tbf who knows what the LinkedIn algorithm does?!? A new contact so not in his orbit. I’m sure he’s seeing me around more now 👍🏻

@mrjasonbfoster yeah, bear in the woods moment, this guy clearly never uses LinkedIn 🤣

@codek1 @BigData_LDN Hi Dan, try this > datastrategyscorecard.cynozure.com

@mrjasonbfoster @BigData_LDN Have you continued to do the scorecard? I wonder how its changed over the last 3 years.

Check out this scorecard that helps to score your data strategy and provide pointers on where to improve! datastrategyscorecard.cynozure.com/bdl2021 At DFP We got 97% :-) See you at @BigData_LDN to discuss further!

@jamiebrummell Incredible Jamie, well done👏

@AndySteer COYS 🙌🏻🙌🏻🤣. I hear Arsenal fans are buying all the spare tickets in the stadium to cheer on spurs 🤣

@AndySteer Now you just need to beat city for us 👍🏻

@BritDataAwards Excellent news @gregdfreeman6 and team. Brilliant product and a great team.

We're opening the ceremony with the 'Start-Up of the Year' 2024 category. And taking home the award this year is Data Literacy Academy. Congratulations! #BDA2024