This summer I got the chance to work with BiG Consultancy whilst finishing my Masters course in Computational Finance at Exeter University. I was interning at Crowdcube.com an equity crowd-funding platform, who use BiG team as their Data experts.

I arrived at BiG Consultancy with relatively little knowledge or experience of working with big data or real-life data problems. However, during my time interning there, I was able to learn a great deal about the issues commonly faced everyday by businesses.

At BiG we’re passionate about innovating with data but it’s coming together of brilliant minds that makes what we do possible. Rich flow of fresh talent and attitudes is crucial to keep our enthusiasm for problem solving with data infectious. Here is what our intern, 4th year Mathematics student Conor, made of working at BiG.

Keeping in contact with your customers is a vital ingredient to ensuring that the hard, expensive work of acquiring customers and then delivering a quality product is translated into brand loyalty, repeat orders and ultimately high lifetime value.

Gerry focuses on data-driven tools and solutions for the marketing sector such as rich customer segmentation, real-time personalisation and predictive analytics.

In the dwindling light of the Data Protection Act and many unknowns of the new General Data Protection Regulation. Tom gives an entertaining report on what does the looming compliance deadline mean for businesses and what should you do to prepare for it?

Jonny, an accomplished digital marketing specialist, shares his passion for analytics and demonstrates how Crowdcube use data to understand their business. Including how and where to focus time and resource.

#DataMunch brings together some very passionate and excitable digital and data experts who will be sharing their business data know-how.

You don’t have go far to find a lot of people talking about how data, analytics and machine learning can help take your company to the next level, transforming it into a sharper, leaner, fitter entity, fit to embrace the current age.

Working in the world of Big Data can be exhausting. As soon as you get your head around one complex technology, another three spring up behind you to replace it. While you were looking the other way, head buried in code, the state-of-the-art goalposts moved a little bit further into the future.