by Victoria Maclennan | Nov 1, 2018 | Analytics |
It’s been an eventful few weeks news wise with many high profile organisations admitting to their algorithms containing bias, even our government have opened the door a wee crack acknowledging there might be an issue within their programmes. Here is a summary of...
by Melanie Butler | Oct 18, 2018 | Analytics, Business Intelligence, Coaching, Open Data |
If my reading is in any way accurate (my own version of sample preparation bias) there are nearly 200 varieties of bias. What does this say about our decisions made so far? Cognitive bias tricks people into spending money now rather than saving for the unknown...
by Victoria Maclennan | Sep 28, 2018 | Analytics |
It seems bias in algorithms is a very hot topic at the moment. In a surprisingly honest move Twitter admits their algorithms aren’t always impartial: Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has told US lawmakers the company’s algorithms have not always been...
by Kate Loguteva | Sep 11, 2018 | AgileBI, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Microsoft |
Microsoft has introduced a new feature of graph database in SQL Server 2017. This is not a new idea, graph platforms were on the market for a while now. I have decided to dive in to understand why graph databases are special and how they could be used in Business...
by Victoria Maclennan | Aug 16, 2018 | Analytics |
Last month I was invited to speak to students at our local Victoria University, studying the Future of Work course, co-taught by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Victoria Business School. Impressed by the innovative convergence of humanities,...
by Anastasia Gorbatenko | Jul 26, 2018 | Analytics, Business Intelligence, Open Source |
Here I would like to share one of the tricks I used in different project implementations to simplify aggregation, avoid manual coding and leave room for scaling. I’ll explain the process using the following example. Lets say we work for a big online shop and...
