No Analytics? Welcome to the HiPPO
In essence, when done correctly data analysis can allow vast amounts of information to be compressed into manageable and tangible pieces of real-world knowledge. By such definition, it is easy…
Leaked Blackboard Data Reveals Extent of Information Available to Staff
The cross-section between the expanding reach of the Internet and the erosion of personal privacy has been well documented as more and more of our lives are being lived out…
Superbowl or Super-business?
The dust has finally begun to settle on the behemoth that is the NFL season, and once again the seasoned veteran Peyton Manning stands atop the pile triumphant as he…
Capital Punishment – Taxing Matters
Ireland’s tough inheritance tax regime is a contentious topic – taxing the passing of wealth which has been accumulated by individuals for a second time, as income earned is subject…
Another Downturn? Growth Falters and Risk Returns
Financial markets have had a worrying opening to 2016. The causes, so far, have been rapidly falling commodity prices, fears over China’s growth and its “up and down” exchange rate…
Monday April 24th, 1916
The sun glistened brightly against the murky canal. Margaret pulled her new green overcoat around her, fastening it’s brass buttons against the cold. She looked up Great Brunswick street towards…
A Republic of Equals and the Legacy of the 1916 Rising
Wherever green is worn, are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. These are not just the words of a W.B. Yeats poem ‘1916’ that I was forced to…
Seachtain na Gaeilge COBÁC
Beidh Seachtain na Gaeilge COBÁC ar siúl idir an 15 Feabhra agus an 19 Feabhra. Tosóidh an tseachtain Dé Luain le scaoileadh ballún in aice an locha díreach roimh a…
Settling into life and studies into a new country
I remember exactly the sensation in my stomach this time last year when I gave in the signed papers that would allow me to move to Ireland to study. I…
Shows To Watch Post-Making A Murderer (No Spoilers!)
It has been just over a month since Steven Avery and the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department came into our lives through our Netflix accounts and no one has felt the…
What’s It Oil About?
Much discussion and column inches have been devoted to the recent slump in oil prices without much clarity being offered to the three most important questions: why the price is…
200 in Facebook Chat Sharing & Rating Photos of Girls
It is believed a private Facebook groupchat with as many as 200 members is active among male students in UCD, in which members share and rate stories and pictures of…