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“Who's winning?" at Cricket: Communicating Machine Learning Algorithms
The communication of statistics to the general public is generally a well covered topic. Statistics are used in all parts of our lives, ranging from the news, to politicians, to usage in many people’s day to day work…
The Race To Generative AI
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to weave its way in our lives, through such avenues as self-driving cars and drones, or more recently through the cultural shift around a vast surfacing term called Generative AI – made primarily of LLMs…
The Pareto Principle: How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome
When French philosopher Voltaire penned the phrase “The best is the mortal enemy of the good”, I wholly doubt he anticipated for resurgence in its relevancy near 300 years after his death…
What is Flourish Data Visualisation?
Flourish: What is it? With the free tool Flourish, you can upload your data and generate a wide range of data visualizations, from straightforward bar graphs and charts to interactive story maps…
Using SAS SQL to Create Data-Driven Macro Variables
If you are looking for a way to assign data values to macro variables in SAS, a PROC SQL step is one of the easiest and most readable ways to do it. In this article, you will learn how to assign data values to macro variables in a PROC SQL step, making your code more dynamic and self-sufficient…
Shine’s Spotlight: How to Make the World Add Up by Tim Harford
Tim Harford published this book “How to Make the World Add Up” in 2020, exploring different ways that people should think about numbers and statistics, with a particular emphasis on how you should trust numbers you see in the media…
Reserves Day 2023
To commemorate Reserves Day 2023 (21/06/2023), we commissioned one of our colleagues, Sally, who is an reservist with the 203 Field Hospital, to write about her experience with the Army Reserves.
Presentations, How Do We Excel? - Part 1
In all likelihood you have come across this page in one of two ways. You are either an avid reader of the Butterfly Blog (and who isn’t?) or you reached this page, amongst hundreds of others on the Google search results for the above title, and decided this was the guidance for you…
Scafell Pike Challenge Weekend
Over a weekend in late May, Butterfly Data set out to climb the highest mountain in England, Scafell Pike. Following last year’s ascent of Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon…
Mental Health First Aiders - What are They?
We wanted to share some insight as to what Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) are all about, what benefits come from having MHFAs within your workplace, and to inform our readers that Butterfly Data now has staff that are qualified MHFAs…