World Mental Health day, recognised every year on the 10th of October, is an opportunity to raise awareness of mental health issues and to contemplate on how we can support those suffering from them in any form. Ahead of this day one of our directors, Wayne, has written a piece on effectively managing the impacts of stress on mental health.

While working for a large government client we were keen to get them to maximise the benefits of their new SAS Viya installation.

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.

As a data analyst early in my career, I haven’t had a chance to work with many programming languages. Most of the work I have done has been using SAS, so when given the chance to have a go with Python I jumped at the opportunity.

Here at Butterfly, we love to celebrate our team and particularly today we want to recognise the achievements and unique entrance to our team of James Lancashire

The revolution brought about by the use of data analytics in sports, particularly US sports is fairly well known. In 2011 a feature film, Moneyball…

This increase in online shopping and mobile banking does appear to have made fraudsters change their tactics too. Scammers who would have carried out their crimes in the real world, have started working from home as well…

This is one of the first things I did when moving from academia, knowing and loving all things R, to data analysis at Butterfly Data where the SAS language would be my main tool…

The trend of dis-owning and de-cluttering has become more popular in recent years. The Swedes are well known for practicing the art of ‘Death Cleaning’, and Mari Kondo’s theory that an item should only be retained…

The scale of fraud is now a national security issue, according to a report published recently by the Royal United Services Institute.