In all likelihood you have come across this page in one of two ways. You are either an avid reader of the Butterfly Blog (and who isn’t?) or you reached this page, amongst hundreds of others on the Google search results for the above title, and decided this was the guidance for you…

Whilst recently driving home from our Butterfly Christmas party I discovered at entirely the least opportune time that Google had seen fit to make a pretty impactful functionality change…

I cannot actually remember the first time I ever ‘Googled’ something. For many years my search engine of choice was Dogpile (which likely really dates me!)…

One of the first ever programming environments I used was a scripting language inbuilt into my Texas Instruments TI-83 calculator, which I needed for my Maths A-level…

One of my pet peeves when working in the education sector was the attitude often taken to training. It would not be uncommon for someone to spend, what often appeared to be, a relaxed day away and then return declaring themselves to have been ‘trained’ on some important subject that was going to revolutionise learning…

When you need to export data from your SAS system JSON proves to be an ideal format, given the superb inbuilt tools in SAS…

Automation in IT systems is, of course, nothing new. In recent years, however, more and more online services have been adding automation components…

In my earlier post about using OBS for work I mentioned the possibility of using it when giving presentations via video conferencing. In this post I’ll go through some of the details of how to do that…

The revolution brought about by the use of data analytics in sports, particularly US sports is fairly well known. In 2011 a feature film, Moneyball…

An introduction to our new Insights blog and what to expect from it.