I recently attended Big Data LDN, one of the biggest tech exhibitions and conferences in London and I was really excited by the latest kind of technology that was being showcased…

Cricket is one of many sports that has undergone a “data revolution” over the last 10 years. This follows in the footsteps of the famous “Moneyball” philosophy which revolutionised baseball in the early 2000s…

In our modern world, data is used almost everywhere to make our lives easier, to sell us things, or even to give elite athletes an edge over their competitors…

SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) is a server that provides a cloud-based, run-time environment for data management and analytics with SAS. It allows data management and analytics to take place on either a single machine or as a distributed server across multiple machines…

Butterfly Data are proud to have taken part in the Digital Sandbox Sustainability Cohort this year. Successful Companies, selected by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and City of London Corporation (COCL), were challenged to tackle problems in finance…

You have probably heard of root cause analysis, and perhaps even been asked to do it, but what is it? It may sound like an invasive dental procedure but, far from pulling teeth, root cause analysis is an important part of working with data…

Data and literature are two subjects which often are not considered to naturally accompany each other. But, as someone who has stakes in both camps, I would make the argument that the two complement each other in a way that truly brings out the best in both…

Data anonymisation is the process of protecting sensitive or private information by erasing or encrypting identifying information about an individual in data. Some of the data this can relate to might include names or locations. Subjective information such as…

Now, the question I want you to consider as you read this article is why do we do that if science and research basically says that 'sitting is the new smoking' and has been linked to obesity, heart disease, and cancer? 

When you think of creating a webform for getting user input from and into a locally hosted SQL database, the last thing you might think of is using Python.