Read up on our technical blogs, covering technology & AI, data management and data quality, and insights from the market.
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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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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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
DevOps and Security – What to look out for in 2023 Read More »
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
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
Top 5 Trends in Data and Information Quality for 2023 Read More »
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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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
Women in Tech and Data – Bridging The Gap Read More »
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 method of evaluating software performance,
Battling Bias in AI: Models for a Better World Read More »
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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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
Outlier Detection – What Is It And How Can It Help In The Improvements Of Data Quality? Read More »
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
Fortnightly Round up: A brand new partnership and upcoming panel appearances Read More »
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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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
Data Quality Management – Gain The Competitive Edge Read More »
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 futile exercise. Adopting a data fabric or mesh approach is important as it enables better management of data in-motion as it flows throughout the organization. Moreover, it allows for potential
Building a Data Fabric with Datactics Self-Service Data Quality Read More »
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. Partly funded by Invest NI, the scheme helps companies recruit a graduate into their business for 18 months, during which time the candidate will spend several months in a foreign
New York With Invest NI’s Graduate To Export Read More »
In March 2022 Datactics took advantage of the offer to visit a local high school to discuss AI Ethics and Machine Learning in production.
AI Ethics: The Next Generation of Data Scientists Read More »
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.
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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 new or emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial services. Datactics won the A-Team Innovation award for the creation of Rapid Match, a system which allowed financial analysts to
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With Snowflake connectivity, SQL rule wizard and the ability to bulk assign data quality breaks, ADQ 1.4 makes end-to-end data quality management even easier.
