The Dawning of the Age of Reference Data

Call it the curse of the Western education system, but for me the summer will always feel like the end of the year. So, as this is the August issue of Inside Reference Data, I thought it would be good to look back on where this year has taken us.

Back in February, when I hadn't even put pen to paper for the first issue, I made a call to John Bottega (then at Credit Suisse), who told me he had resigned and was heading to Citibank to take up the role of chief data officer. With the largest