The Datactics Blog
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Business Fives Football Tournament | 29/03/2023
Datactics is taking part in the Belfast Winter Series of Business Fives Football Tournament to raise funds for a local charity! The corporate charity five-a-side
Data Management Summit London | 30/03/2023
Unlocking data value for business and compliance insight Data Management Summit (DMS) London is now in its 13th year and takes place in person on 30th March at America Square Conference
How to find your birthday in Pi
Every math enthusiast’s favorite day of the year has arrived – Pi day. Celebrated on 14th March every year, it represents the first 3 digits
How to build an effective data quality control framework
Alexandra Collins, Product Owner at Datactics, recently spoke on an A-Team webinar on the subject of how to build a data quality control framework. In
DevOps and Security – What to look out for in 2023
No one team can be all things to an entire company – Or can they? Last week the DevOps & Security Team here at
What Connects James Cameron, Data Catalogs and Data Science 101? CTO Insights with Alex Brown
Matt Flenley recently took some time with Alex Brown, CTO at Datactics, to find out what he’s looking forward to in the year ahead. You
Top 5 Trends in Data and Information Quality for 2023
In this blog post, our Head of Marketing, Matt Flenley, takes a closer look at the latest trends in data and information quality for 2023.
Datactics Partners with Solidatus to Deliver Trust in Enterprise Data Quality
Datactics, an award-winning self-service data quality and matching software vendor and Solidatus, the leading data lineage discovery, visualisation and management solution, are today announcing a
Datactics wins ‘Best Data Quality Analysis Tool’ at the Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2022
Datactics has won ‘Best Data Quality Analysis Tool’ at A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Awards 2022 for its innovative Self Service Data Quality (SSDQ) platform.
Datactics placed in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Quality Solutions
[4th November 2022] – Datactics, a leading and innovative provider of solutions in the data quality solutions market, today announced that they have been positioned
Hate Crime Classification using NDQIS
June 2022 was a significant milestone in the timeline of LGBTQ+ rights in the UK. Not only was it Pride Month, but this year marked
Data at the Heart of Smart Cities: Brussels 2022
On the 23rd June, Matt Flenley visited the UK Ambassador’s Residence in Brussels as part of a delegation of UK tech firms to Belgium. Here,
Women in Tech and Data – Bridging The Gap
The recent return to in-market visits and events has reignited a favourite pastime, that of mid-air reading, much to the delight of the pile of
Battling Bias in AI: Models for a Better World
The role of synthetic data At Datactics, we develop and maintain a number of internal tools for use within the AI and Software Development teams.
Semantic Analysis of Free Text and Why It Matters
Shauna Leonard recently spoke at the Women in Techmakers conference at Queen’s University Belfast. Her talk looked at the Semantic Analysis of Free Text and
Outlier Detection – What Is It And How Can It Help In The Improvements Of Data Quality?
Identifying outliers and errors in data is an important but time-consuming task. Depending on the context and domain, errors can be impactful in a variety
Fortnightly Round up: A brand new partnership and upcoming panel appearances
April is nearly over and we’re back to share with you exciting news about events, new content, and panel appearances! Datactics has partnered with MANTA
Why should you care about data quality?
Data quality may not be viewed as a particularly attractive topic of conversation at a dinner party or a company event, yet it is a
Data Quality Management – Gain The Competitive Edge
Managing data assets has become a way to gain competitive advantage for businesses and is a keen focus area for regulatory bodies around the globe.
Datactics partners with MANTA to Deliver Advanced Data Quality and Lineage Capabilities
Datactics, an award-winning self-service data quality and matching software vendor based in Belfast, UK, and MANTA , a world class data lineage platform, are today
Building a Data Fabric with Datactics Self-Service Data Quality
If you consider data as the lifeblood of your organization, trying to manage it in a static, distributed fashion seems like a challenging and almost
New York With Invest NI’s Graduate To Export
Brendan McCarthy is one of our Business Development Executives who joined Datactics in March 2021 as part of Invest Northern Ireland’s ‘Graduate to Export’ program.
AI Ethics: The Next Generation of Data Scientists
In March 2022 Datactics took advantage of the offer to visit a local high school to discuss AI Ethics and Machine Learning in production.
Datactics Exhibit At Security And Policing 2022
Earlier this month we exhibited at Security and Policing 2022. The week began with our stand being led by Jackie Devine and Sean McConnell who were engaging in conversation around what our nationwide, private cloud-based system can do to help with crime classification and reporting.
Datactics wins Most Innovative Data Quality Initiative at the A-Team awards
Datactics has won the Most Innovative Data Quality Initiative at the A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2022 which celebrate projects and teams that make use of
Big Data and AI World 2022 | 2-3/03/22
Big Data & AI World returns 2 – 3 March 2022, bringing together data and AI innovators, technologists, and business leaders, to help make data-driven decisions and intelligently shape their business.
Chief Data and Analytics Officers, UK | 14-16/03/22
Exclusively designed for the cutting-edge data & analytics leader, focused on aligning data strategy with digital transformation, leveraging data analytics to increase business value and
Security and Policing Home Office Event | 15-17/03/22
Security & Policing, the official Government global security event, returns as a live event for its 40th anniversary between 15‐17 March 2022 at the Farnborough International Exhibition
How Data Quality Tools Deliver Clean Data for AI and ML
In her previous blog Dr Fiona Browne, Head of AI and Software Development, assessed the need for the AI and Machine Learning world to prioritise
4 Data Quality Tool Features for Improving Open Datasets
The rise in popularity of open datasets has seen an increase in light of the Covid-19 Pandemic. With more people thirsty for data, there exists
