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Algorithms in the news
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 whats...
All things data vault
Over the last few years there has been a rise of the Data Vault, and we've been right there with it. Our data warehouse developers are Data Vault Certified by the Genesee Academy, and we regularly host Hans or Remco from Genesee in our training room so you can also...
Why is Unix still around?
You might think that Unix is some old school way of using computers that is slowly fading away, but having come back to computing (after living in the highlands of Scotland with no particular reason to use a computer for nearly three years), I'd have to say Unix's...
A thought or two on bias
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...
Hans Hultgren returns to Wellington this December
You'll know by know that we're huge fans of Data Vault here at OptimalBI, and at least once a year we put on a Data Vault Certification course. Well, hold on to your hats, we've got our third certification course for the year coming up in December and the time to...
Training in the future
I had the privilege of attending an instructor lead SAS Viya 3.3 administration course recently. I have attended many in-person classroom based courses in the past, plus the odd webinar but this was my first Web Class or online course where participants could engage...
Welcome Back Lawrence Corr
In November we will be welcoming back Lawrence Corr, bestselling author of “Agile Data Warehouse Design”. OptimalBI are happy to be hosting Lawrence’s Wellington 3-day BEAM* training workshop and data modelstorming masterclass. Lawrence’s data modelling expertise is...
Amazon Workspaces: Useful for CloudBI/Cloud Development?
Amazon Workspaces have been around for a while now, so I thought I'd give them a go and see what's what. What is this Amazon Workspaces thing then? Amazon Workspaces is Amazon/AWS virtual desktop as a service offering. It allows IT Administrators to provision desktops...
Bias – a capability challenge
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...
Data Vault on Graph database
Recently I have bumped into this blog by David Nicholson. I have heard an opinion that the Graph database and the Data Vault look similar before. This idea comes to mind when you see diagrams next to each other. (You can draw them to be identical, but it doesn't prove...