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White Paper - Risk Identification in Public Contracts: the role of Generative AI and the Company Analysis Tool
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.
Data Privacy Day 2025: Building Trust Through a Societal Compact for Health Data
On this Data Privacy Day, it’s worth considering how to balance progress with the safeguarding of data…
SAS Made Simple: How to prevent rounding errors when using SAS’s Proc SQL
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…
SAS Fans 2024 - Understanding Analogies in Data - Part 2
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…
SAS Fans 2024 - Understanding Analogies in Data - Part 1
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: A Game-Changer in Combating Corruption in Public Procurement
AI is reshaping the fight against corruption in public procurement, unlocking tools that elevate transparency, accountability, and operational efficiency worldwide…
Why Do We All Talk About Data Like It’s Water?
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?
Semantic Analysis Using LLMs - Classification with BERT
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...
SAS Made Simple: ANYCNTRL & NOTCNTRL Regex Alternatives for SAS
A control character is a character that does not represent a traditional printable character but is intended to act as a particular action...
What Does AWS DataZone Do?
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...