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Innovative models are now allowing health care organisations to drive cost reductions and create personalised treatment plans in ways which wouldn’t have been possible, even a few years ago…

At Butterfly Data, we truly believe that harnessing the power of data analytics has become essential for success in the healthcare industry…

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…

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…

Tim Spector is both a professor of genetics at King’s College London and an author of popular science books, such as this one we’re reviewing and “The Diet Myth” amongst others…

SAS Viya is a cloud-native platform which is able to host many of SAS’s other services such as SAS Visual Analytics or SAS Studio. One of the strengths of SAS Viya is the Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) in-memory engine…

I recently did a short course on IBM Cognos Analytics and I learned a healthy amount on the solution itself, but what was most exciting was seeing how data visualisation tools can be used to tell data management stories…

In data science or data-based projects, the quality of data is one of the most pertinent aspects to be considered. In the case of developing intelligent systems using various AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques…

I recently attended Big Data LDN, one of the biggest tech exhibitions and conferences in London and I was really excited by the latest kind of technology that was being showcased…

Cricket is one of many sports that has undergone a “data revolution” over the last 10 years. This follows in the footsteps of the famous “Moneyball” philosophy which revolutionised baseball in the early 2000s…

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…

One of our directors, Sara, recommended I read this book a long while ago, so I gave it a read for my next blog post. Nate Silver has a background in statistics and making predictions…

Two areas of machine learning (ML) have undergone rapid advances over the last few years: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Image Recognition…

Butterfly Data are proud to have taken part in the Digital Sandbox Sustainability Cohort this year. Successful Companies, selected by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and City of London Corporation (COCL), were challenged to tackle problems in finance…

You have probably heard of root cause analysis, and perhaps even been asked to do it, but what is it? It may sound like an invasive dental procedure but, far from pulling teeth, root cause analysis is an important part of working with data…

When you need to export data from your SAS system JSON proves to be an ideal format, given the superb inbuilt tools in SAS…

Data and literature are two subjects which often are not considered to naturally accompany each other. But, as someone who has stakes in both camps, I would make the argument that the two complement each other in a way that truly brings out the best in both…

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.

The credit union consolidation rate has held steady at about 3.5% a year for the past 40 years. The most common merger scenario has larger entities acquiring small and midsize credit unions. Analysts are speculating that pressures on the biggest credit unions will force many to consider merger strategies in the months to come.

In the first eight months of 2021, publicly announced mergers and acquisitions (M&A) were valued at more than $3.6 trillion globally and $1.8 trillion in the US according to Dealogic. Both numbers are the highest since 1995, when the data provider began its tracking.

Fuzzy Matching, also known as Approximate String Matching, is a technique to identify whether two strings are similar but not the same. Some everyday uses of fuzzy matching include: spell check, auto-correct, spam filtering, record linkage, and address matching.

I joined the British Army in 2011 and I served over 8 years; going through 6 months of rigorous training to transform from being a civilian to a soldier.

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

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.

At the start of this year, Kane Williamson scored 238 in New Zealand’s first innings of their second Test match against Pakistan in Christchurch. Remarkably, this was the first time…