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  1. Passionate Statistician, The (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL), £34.99

    Florence Nightingale made use of statistics in her hospital work during the Crimean war to show that hospital hygiene was so poor that the wounded were less likely to die from disease at the front than in...

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  2. Asthma and the Bean (1995)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Looks at how statistical techniques helped to find the cause of mysterious asthma attacks in Barcelona during the 1980s. Between 1981 and 1984 seven serious asthma outbreaks in adults were reported at...

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  3. Language for Movement, A (1995)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Dance; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Given that the use of symbolic language is not exclusive to mathematics, this programme looks at dancing and why and how notations, which are symbolic languages, are used to record and recreate dances....

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  4. Being Objective (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Uses graphics based on the popular computer game ‘Lemmings’ to look at the key ideas of object technology - encapsulation of data and methods within the object; classes of object, polymorphism,...

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  5. Designing for People (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    An introduction to human-computer interaction and user-centred design. Uses as a case study the law firm Linklaters & Paines, which introduced ACCESS, a new information system for its users, lawyers and...

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  6. Management of Project Omnia, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Considers the people involved in project management, in this case, the Portman Building Society’s Project OMNIA which was undertaken to replace diverse computer systems by a single integrated one that is...

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  7. Data Based Developments (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at some database developments: a commercial application of a natural language interface using SQL at the Van den Bergh headquarters in Burgess Hill; IBM Hursley talks about development in distributed...

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  8. Data Modelling: The Wood from the Trees (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Forest Products Ltd, a small distribution company based at Liverpool Docks, has set up a database management system to help keep track of timber imports and distribution. Follows the way the external...

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  9. Inside Sql (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    The query language SQL can be run on many relational database management systems. This film looks at what happens ‘inside SQL’, considering in detail how the key element in the system, the SQL processor,...

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  10. Body in White, The: Developing a Database (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Rover Group has to keep tight financial control of all the various stages in both the development of the final design and the subsequent full production of any model. Until 1989, the computer system only...

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