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Data Acquisition in Mountain Biking
In our modern world, data is used almost everywhere to make our lives easier, to sell us things, or even to give elite athletes an edge over their competitors…
Big Government Data Strategy - No more Chief Data Ostrich!
Governments around the world are going digital. Considering this, the OECD published a ranking table which rated the UK as 2nd best worldwide…
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Two areas of machine learning (ML) have undergone rapid advances over the last few years: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Image Recognition…
Guess Who? Netflix & Data Anonymisation
Data anonymisation is the process of protecting sensitive or private information by erasing or encrypting identifying information about an individual in data. Some of the data this can relate to might include names or locations. Subjective information such as…
Dynamically Creating Code with SAS
The ability to dynamically create code allows you to make incredibly flexible systems for processing data. For example, on a project Butterfly Data has worked on, we built a data quality system which checked the quality of 190+ data types, each of which had different formats.
Transliteration of Emojis
The wide variety of spoken languages on Earth (widely estimated to be in the order of 7000) are a significant addition to the diversity, culture and rich complexity of society […] to record in binary the letters and symbols that make up those alphabets, many different encoding standards have been created.
Using Machine Learning to Detect Fake News
For my final year University project, I was tasked with using Artificial Intelligence to solve a real-world problem. The misinformation I was seeing every day sprawled over social media about such things as the American election and, more recently, the Covid-19 pandemic, sprang to mind…
Visualising data using Python with SQL Data
When you think of creating a webform for getting user input from and into a locally hosted SQL database, the last thing you might think of is using Python.