Alex Brown is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Datactics. Alex has a combined total of 15 years’ experience within the software development and technical innovation sectors. He is a keen explorer of the application of data quality, the manipulation and bias that exists in AI and the change that is coming as a result of technology and ML/AI.
Alex Brown has a wealth of experience which has been reaped through his career as he has transitioned through software development to technical innovation, which has been underpinned by his academic prowess in Physics.
Our CTO, Alex Brown expresses his views, opinons and insights in the pieces of content found in this section. Alex Brown’s pieces range from his recent blog posts on the ‘Three Pillars of Production AI’ and ‘No Code and Lo Code: A lighter way to enjoy tech?’. He also has written whitepapers such as ‘Beyond Data Prep’, his most recent.
TL;DR Datactics Platform components are not affected by the CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability in log4j. Datactics is not issuing any emergency updates and Datactics customers do not have to perform any mitigating actions on the platform at this time. What you Need to Know: On 10th December 2021 a critical vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 was found in the Apache …
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Recent incidents involving AI algorithms have hit the headlines, leading many to question their worth. In this article, CTO Alex Brown outlines the three pillars of AI and looks at how they each play a part in implementing AI in production. As many who work within computer science will know, many Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects fail to make the crucial …
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 …
As featured in the recent A-Team webinar, we’ve been strong advocates of a self-service approach to data quality (SSDQ), especially when it comes to regulated data types and wide-ranging demands on a firm’s data assets. This whitepaper SSDQ, authored by our CTO Alex Brown, goes deeper into the reasons why this approach is so much …
Chief Technology Officer, Alex Brown featured as a panellist in Data Management Insight’s webinar discussing the best practices for creating a data quality framework within your organisation. What is the problem? A-Team Insight outlines that ‘bad data affects time, cost, customer service, cripples decision making and reduces firms’ ability to manage data and comply with …
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You might have missed this highly informative report from the European Banking Authority (EBA) – because the title didn’t contain the popular buzzwords of Artificial Intelligence – AI or Machine Learning – ML (nor does the front cover have a picture of a robot!). But for anyone who is trying to understand the challenges ahead for AI and …
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Yes of course Santa has data quality issues! Everyone has data quality issues. In this article, we outline how Datactics software can help Santa improve the efficiency of his pre-Christmas operations and have a stress free Christmas Eve delivery and a relaxing Christmas Day. Data Quality Firewall, REST API, Data Quality Remediation Datactics provides a …
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Here at Datactics, we’ve recently done a number of Transliteration matching tasks helping people with Japanese, Russian Cyrillic and Arabic data sets. Transliteration matching can seem challenging, especially when presented with text that you don’t understand, but with the right techniques a lot can be achieved – the key is to really understand the problem …
We are pleased to announce that the latest version of the Datactics LEI Match Engine and health check now includes matching fuzzy matching of entity name to SWIFT BIC code. The SWIFT BIC data is provided by the GLEIF open-source SWIFT to LEI mapping that was introduced in February this year. This latest change helps underline that the LEI …
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