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Misinformation is a growing global concern, influencing public opinion, shaping campaign outcomes, and eroding trust in institutions. Could artificial intelligence be the answer to combating the issue?
Small data shifts create big impact - just like the butterfly effect. B-Corps like Oddbox, Neighbourly, TOTM, and Butterfly Data are using data to drive business success while benefiting wider society. How can we amplify this impact? Let’s explore.
During this year’s Public Sector AI Week, Sara Boltman, co-founder of Butterfly Data, spoke about the growing role of artificial intelligence in government and public services. Drawing from her background in data science and machine learning, she highlighted AI's potential to improve decision-making while warning of the risks of bias without proper oversight.
Butterfly Data and Oxford Insights developed the Company Analysis Tool (CAT) to identify risks in public contracts using AI. It integrates UK contracting data with ‘red flag’ methodologies to flag suspicious companies.
On this Data Privacy Day, it’s worth considering how to balance progress with the safeguarding of data…
Join us as we look at how to prevent rounding errors when using SAS’s Proc SQL; leveraging the default formatting of the SELECT INTO statement. I recently encountered some peculiar behaviour when using the “select into” function in SAS’s proc SQL. It was rounding very large numeric values in macro variables to the nearest 5 significant figures…
Analogies can be overused and can be used in many difference situations, and this can be distracting.
As an example, using the Recipe analogy is a good way for describing different concepts and ideas…
As our very own Henry Newman-Burke looks to present at SAS Fans on Wednesday, 27th November, he will be sharing his take on ‘What if Santa was moving house?’ A presentation which shares the festive view of analogies used…
AI is reshaping the fight against corruption in public procurement, unlocking tools that elevate transparency, accountability, and operational efficiency worldwide…
I was in a meeting recently and had the horror of witnessing someone referring to a data ingestion process as “the data being slurped in”. Once I’d recovered from this moment, it did get me thinking, why are we all so obsessed with talking about data like its water?
In this articles we will explore how to use Large Language Models (LLMs) for Semantic Analysis. In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionised the field of natural language processing (NLP), venturing into the new frontiers...
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During some recent project work, I had the opportunity to explore various data management software suites. On one of these projects, I was tasked to carry out in-depth research and produce a POC (Proof of Concept) analysis on a specific cloud-based data management platform, AWS DataZone...
At Butterfly Data we have now got into the annual tradition of getting all the staff together for a weekend away in the Spring to go and climb a mountain somewhere. In the first year we went up Snowdon and last year we went up Scafell Pike…
At Butterfly Data we pride ourselves on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and understand that everyone’s identities are formed by more than just what we see at work…
Collective intelligence can be defined as “the shared intelligence of a group”. In the book “Superminds” by Thomas W Malone, from MIT’s Centre for Collective Intelligence, he refers to collective intelligence as a “supermind”…
When working with data in SAS Viya you have most likely accessed it via a Caslib. In order to analyse this data, you need to load it into CAS memory. So this is going to be a short guide into how best to achieve this…
SAS Viya is a comprehensive data analytics platform, which is particularly useful due to the speed improvements, compared to older versions of SAS, offered by the parallel processing of the SAS Cloud Analytics Service (CAS) within SAS Viya…
Butterfly Data proudly announces its commitment to the Tech Talent Charter (TTC), an initiative aimed at fostering greater diversity within the technology sector. By joining the TTC…
Following on from Neurodiversity Week 2024, our team wanted to use the space of our blog to highlight some thoughts and facts on Neurodiversity…
International Women's Day (IWD) has been commemorated annually on March 8th since its inception in 1908. This global observance serves as a platform to shed light on the myriad challenges and injustices women confront in their daily lives…
This article might be somewhat more specific than a few of our broader discussions here. However, SAS Viya is a reasonably new tool…
As a team that takes on data management problems, one of the things that we consistently do is adapt and adjust dynamically to different data scenarios…
If you have been on the internet at all since 2022 you will almost certainly have heard of generative AI tools and large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT…
We wanted to share some exciting news on an effort we have been working towards in the background for a little while now, we are now officially a B Corp!
For users running SAS 9.4 maintenance release 4 or later, the LIBNAME JSON engine is a great feature that allows JSON data to be read into SAS with only a few lines of code. For those without access to the JSON engine…
A data quality dashboard can be a very useful tool for displaying the state of your organisation’s data, but if these are not approached and designed correctly then they can become confusing and frustrating for your users…
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…