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Read up on our technical blogs, covering technology & AI, data management and data quality, and insights from the market.

Our team: International Food Days

International Food Days

Trying 10 different cultural breakfast cuisines right from the office! At Datactics we are proud to have 13 different nationalities across the workforce and, we fully embrace learning and exploring different cultures. Due to the variety of cultures in the company, a team borne initiative flourished and took the form of ‘International Food Days’. The initiative encouraged team members to proudly share […]

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“I keep learning, and the best part is getting to do things I have never done before” – Meet Daiva, part of the “Our team” series

Daiva Vencevičiūtė is a Data Engineer within the Client Services Team who lives in Lithuania. Upon completing her Belfast-based 6-month placement, Daiva returned to Lithuania to complete her degree. Since returning, she works with us on a part-time basis. We thought we would grab her for a chat to find out all about her placement, her involvement with the

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“I enjoy working on AI because there is a lot of advancements to be made, it’s not quite terminator level yet!” – Meet Matt, part of the “Our team” series

Matt Neill is working within the AI team and is now on Week 10 of his internship. He has been actively using his Data Science education background to put his stamp on the AI team. We thought we would grab him for a chat to unpack what he has been working on; how he got involved

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“I was looking around for internships to learn different skills and find out what direction I want to go in with my career” – Meet Mary-Clare, part of the “Our Team” series

Mary Clare is working within the AI Team, she joined us in July and already has been contributing to projects and making her stamp within the AI Team. We thought we would grab her for a chat to find out how she has found her working in the team so far; what she has been

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Runners and riders club: get on your bike (or get your running shoes on)

Riders and Runners

In late June, our very own Marcus Lamb, a Senior Software Developer, took it upon himself to launch the first-ever Datactics ‘Runners and Riders’ club, for cyclists, runners, and walkers of all abilities, on popular activity monitoring app Strava. Jamie Gordon sat down with him to find out all about it… The club is only new but with an

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Tackling Practical Challenges of a Data Management Programme

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“Nobody said it was easy” sang Chris Martin, in Coldplay’s love song from a scientist to the girl he was neglecting. The same could be said of data scientists embarking on a data management programme! In his previous blog on Good Data Culture, our Head of Client Services, Luca Rovesti, discussed taking first steps on

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How to overcome barriers to RegTech adoption

fence, wooden, old

At the start of June, Marketing & Partnerships Manager, Matt Flenley was a panellist on an A-Team webinar on overcoming barriers to RegTech adoption alongside Sophia Bantanidis of Citi, Kayvan Alikhani of Compliance.ai, and Patrick Boscher of Pabora.io. With questions posed by Sarah Underwood, the webinar delved deep into views from different sides of the fence – buyers, sellers and investors – seeking to provide

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Data Governance or Data Quality: not always a ‘chicken & egg’ problem

chicks, egg, hatched

In this  blog with Datactics’ Head of Sales, Kieran Seaward, we dive into market insights and the sometimes-thorny issue of where to start. Data Governance or Data Quality is a problem data managers and users will fully understand, and Kieran’s approach to this is influenced by thousands of hours of conversation with people at all

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No-code & Lo-code: A Lighter Way To Enjoy Tech?

chocolate mousse, food, dessert

In this article with Datactics CTO Alex Brown, Matt Flenley asks about the nature of no-code and lo-code platforms like Datactics’ Self-Service Data Quality, and whether they really are a lighter way to enjoy technology?  The lo-code no-code paradigm can be a bit like Marmite. Some people say that it’s great, it gets the job done, and these are

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Read how AI is transforming Data Quality in this exclusive white paper

AI Whitepaper for Entity Resolution

  In this AI whitepaper, authored by our Head of AI Fiona Browne, we provide an overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and their application to Data Quality. We highlight how tools in the Datactics platform can be used for key data preparation tasks including cleansing, feature engineering and dataset labelling for

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Dataset Labelling For Entity Resolution & Beyond with Dr Fiona Browne

balance, inspiration, motivation

In late 2019 our Head of AI, Dr Fiona Browne, delivered a series of talks to the Enterprise Data Management Council on AI-Enabled Data Quality in the context of AML operations, specifically for resolving differences in dataset labelling for legal entity data. In this blog post, Fiona goes under the hood to explain some of

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What is driving the need for Data Quality Metrics in Retail Banking?

marathon, running, runner

Retail Banking Part 1 – Marathons present a titanic challenge that has long dominated the human psyche: the will to finish, to get over the line, to win. Whether in-person or virtual, the London Marathon is no different! In previous years, the official app has contained a feature to help friends, family and supporters locate

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Explainable AI with Dr. Fiona Browne

explanin

The AI team at Datactics is building explainability from the ground up and demonstrating the “why and how” behind predictive models for client projects. Matt Flenley prepared to open his brains to a rapid education session from Dr Fiona Browne and Kaixi Yang. One of the most hotly debated tech topics of 2020 concerns model

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