Read up on our technical blogs, covering technology & AI, data management and data quality, and insights from the market.
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
In March 2022 Datactics took advantage of the offer to visit a local high school to discuss AI Ethics and Machine Learning in production.
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.
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 …
Datactics wins Most Innovative Data Quality Initiative at the A-Team awards Read More »
In her previous blog Dr Fiona Browne, Head of AI and Software Development, assessed the need for the AI and Machine Learning world to prioritise the data that is being fed into models and algorithms (and you can read it here. ) This blog goes into some of the critical capabilities for data quality tools …
How Data Quality Tools Deliver Clean Data for AI and ML Read More »
The rise in popularity of open datasets has seen an increase in light of the Covid-19 Pandemic. With more people thirsty for data, there exists a need for technology solutions to ensure open datasets are maintained and reliable. Open datasets consist of structured data that is machine readable and typically used by individuals, financial services …
4 Data Quality Tool Features for Improving Open Datasets Read More »
February is here and we’re back to share with you exciting news about events, new roles, new content, and exciting growth news! Shortlisted at the Insider Northern Ireland Dealmaker Awards 2022 We are delighted to find out this morning that we have been shortlisted forPrivate Equity/Venture Capital Deal of the Year at the Insider Northern …
Fortnightly Round up: Exciting Award news and more! Read More »
The National Digital Policing Strategy discusses some of the challenges the police are facing in terms of achieving digital transformation. Among them, legacy technology lock-in, conservative risk appetite and inconsistent understanding of data are listed as key barriers. In our experience, data quality monitoring and matching is key to achieving operational efficiency. ‘Policing in the …
How to Improve Operations with Data Monitoring and Matching Read More »
We thought we would mark Apprenticeship week by involving our very own Systems Administration apprentice, Victoria Wallace, who has been completing her apprenticeship with Datactics alongside studying at Belfast Met. In this blog, Victoria chats about her experience in technology so far, her apprenticeship, the skills she has been acquiring, and of course, her experience …
Environmental, Social and Governance Factors “Over the long-term, environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues- ranging from climate change to diversity to board effectiveness- have real and quantifiable financial impacts…” So noted BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink in the wake of the Paris Climate agreement, following the United Nations’ (UN) adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. Since Fink’s 2016 …
Self-service data quality & matching specialists routinely winning awards and recognition for our software, company culture and customer satisfaction.