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The rising popularity of apprenticeships to kickstart a career in the IT industry

Blog / Victoria Wallace / Apprenticeships, Devops

Apprenticeships have long been heralded as education and study opportunities for young school leavers, acting as an entry point to certain jobs. Sometimes apprenticeships are thought of as not encouraging progression along a tailored career path for an individual. However, this is not the case at all! Within the IT industry, apprenticeships are a great […]

What Is Augmented Data Quality And How Do You Use It?

Blog, Data Quality, Glossary / Roisin Floyd / A, ADQ

Year after year, the volume of data being generated is increasing at an unparalleled pace. For businesses, data is critical to inform business strategy, facilitate decision-making, and create opportunities for competitive advantage. However, leveraging this data is only as good as its quality, and traditional methods for measuring and improving data quality are struggling

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Mystique of HTTP Status Code 418: I’m a Teapot

Blog / Tony Brueser

The image shows the HTTP Statuscode 418 page from Google.com – Source: https://www.google.com/teapot When it comes to HTTP status codes, most people are familiar with the common ones like 200 (OK), 404 (Not Found), or 500 (Internal Server Error). However, hidden within the vast array of status codes lies an intriguing and whimsical number: 418.

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How to test your data against Benford’s Law

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML), Blog / Matt Neill / Data Quality, Machine Learning

One of the most important aspects of data quality is being able to identify anomalies within your data. There are many ways to approach this, one of which is to test the data against Benford’s Law. This blog will take a look at what Benford’s Law is, how it can be used to detect fraud,

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How You’ll Know You Still Have a Data Quality Problem

Marketing Insights / Matt Flenley / Data Governance, Data Quality, Financial, Investment Banking

Despite a seemingly healthy green glow in your dashboards and exemplary regulatory reports, you can’t help but sense that something is amiss with the data. If this feeling rings true for you, don’t worry – it may be an indication of bigger issues lurking beneath the surface. You’re not alone. In this blog we’ve taken

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How to find your birthday in Pi

Blog / Roisin Floyd

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 of Pi – 3.14 (in the American date format). As it happens, it is also the same date as Albert Einstein’s birthday! Senior Software Developer, Edele Copeland, explains why she

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How to build an effective data quality control framework

Blog / Alexandra Collins / Data Quality

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 case you missed it, here is everything you need to know about building a data quality control framework using the latest tools and technologies. What are the drivers of change

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DevOps and Security – What to look out for in 2023

DevOps & Security / Dave Brown / Devops

No one team can be all things to an entire company – Or can they?  Last week the DevOps & Security Team here at Datactics got together to reflect on what our priorities are as a team and to plan out 2023. As a small team in an ever-growing company, we began the session

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What Connects James Cameron, Data Catalogs and Data Science 101? CTO Insights with Alex Brown

CTO Vision / Alex Brown / CTO Insights, CTO Vision

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 mentioned the other day in our team meeting the market trends towards Master Data Management. Is there anything that you had noted here that you wanted to expand on when

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Top 5 Trends in Data and Information Quality for 2023

Marketing Insights / Matt Flenley / Data Fabric, Data Governance, Data Mesh, Data Profiling, Data Quality, Trends in Data Quality

Discover the latest trends in data and information quality for 2023, featuring Data profiling, Data Mesh, Data Fabric, Data Governance, and more.

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. He analyses predictions made by Gartner and how they’ve developed in line with expectations to provide insight into the evolution of the market and its various key players. Automation and

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Hate Crime Classification using NDQIS

Blog / Marketing / Government, Hate Crime, knife crime, NDQIS, Policing

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 the 50th anniversary of the first Pride event to be held in the UK. Back in 1972, the parade in London attracted around 2,000 participants, whereas over 1.5 million people

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Women in Tech and Data – Bridging The Gap

Blog / Matt Flenley / Women in Tech and Data

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 half-read books on my bedside table! In reading the very fine ‘The Making of Biblical Womanhood’, I was particularly struck by a quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The author, Beth Allison

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Battling Bias in AI: Models for a Better World

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) / Daniel Browne / AI, Bias

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. One of which is a synthetic data generation tool that can be used to create large datasets of placeholder information. This was initially built to generate benchmarking datasets as another

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Semantic Analysis of Free Text and Why It Matters

Blog / Shauna Leonard / Free Text, Semantic Analysis

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 how it applies to her work with a UK government organisation. Read Shauna’s talk below. What is Semantic Analysis of Free Text? It is the process of drawing meaning from

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Outlier Detection – What Is It And How Can It Help In The Improvements Of Data Quality?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML), Blog / Matt Neill / AI, Data Quality, ML, Outlier Detection

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 of ways, some very severe. One of the issues with detecting outliers and errors is that they come in many different forms. There are syntactic errors, where a value like

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Fortnightly Round up: A brand new partnership and upcoming panel appearances

Marketing Insights / Jamie Gordon

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 Datactics’ customers will benefit from the new partnership in addressing complexities around data in motion, by leveraging MANTA’s lineage capabilities alongside Datactics data quality and matching expertise through their Self-Service

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Why should you care about data quality?

Blog / Brendan McCarthy / 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 critical step for organisations to maximise the value of their information and subsequent decision-making. It is therefore imperative that data leaders make every attempt to raise awareness and educate on

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Data Quality Management – Gain The Competitive Edge

Blog, Good Data Culture / Luca Rovesti / Data Quality Management

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. With the emergence of data standards and a plethora of technology businesses, the data management landscape has never been so competitive. The following blog will look at how to maximise

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