You might have heard this term thrown about a bit recently. Perhaps it's because you've heard politicians referring to it when discussing educational reform, or you've noticed how your job has you doing more with spreadsheets than you did five years ago. What ever...
What is algorithmic bias? A systematic error in computer algorithms which leads to unfair outcomes and giving privileges to one of the groups of users over all others. An algorithm is a set of instructions designed to perform a specific task. This can be a simple...
I've spent the last 8 years of my life surrounded by data nerds, and while I've learned so many new things about data, I can not even pretend I'm a data nerd myself. An enthusiast for sure, but a nerd... no way! I lack what my peers would consider the hammer and...
Kia ora koutou and welcome to the last OptimalBI newsletter of 2019 - hasn't this year flown by! We have enjoyed supporting our customers to create amazing outcomes for their organisations this year with a range of really interesting projects - payment integration,...
Working in the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing space I'm constantly keeping abreast of what's hot and what's not. Obviously Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence fall under the BI/DW banner, somewhere. So today I want to share Kaggle!...
Have you ever needed data for a work or academic project? If so, are there any good sites on the internet where you can easily access data? I have had to complete several projects at work where I had to build reports in various BI tool (Qlik and PowerBI). I needed to...
This month OptimalBI is hosting a Data Science Pioneers documentary screening. The first screening was crowded and the rest of the sessions are booking up very quickly, so you might have heard about it already. I'm guessing, the selling point (although it's completely...
Join us for the first public screening of this documentary in New Zealand. Cut through the hype and see what is means to be a data scientist. Featuring our very own Shaun McGirr, now Head of Data Science and Business Intelligence at Cox Automotive UK, this one hour...
Here at OptimalBI we love data, and we get upset when it's only piled and doesn't produce value. Like many others who have a website, we use Google Analytics to collect its statistics. This is valuable marketing data, so we want to make use of it and help our...
On a daily basis I have the benefit of working with organisations who are somewhere on a journey with data. Working with big or small, flush or practically bust, petabytes or megabytes, organisations see some innovative solutions deployed. One thing I often see...