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Business Intelligence, Data Science, Blockchain, and many more
Business Intelligence, Data Science, Blockchain, and many more
Scrum is a "lightweight framework" for iteratively and collaboratively developing complex products. It is typically used to develop software. Agile is an umbrella term for all the...
In this article, we’ll show you how to use AWS Lambdas to schedule the uptime of your EC2 instances...
In this article, we’ll cover how to use AWS Lambda and Amazon CloudWatch to automatically backup your EC2 servers. Snapshots...
Towards the end of 2015 Microsoft announced it's partnership with Alteryx, a market leader in data blending and advanced analytics, and Microsoft's first alliance member...
On the 27th of October I attended the Big Data In Use Conference in London. Below is a summary of the content presented there. There 3 main trends were empowering...
Keyrus is excited to announce that we’ve created industry-leading blockchain connectors for the popular self-service data tools: Qlik Sense and Alteryx. With these connectors...
What is a dashboard really for? At its essence, a dashboard should be designed to immediately convey...
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of rules which enable programs to communicate with one another effectively. Developers of many websites incorporate...
This week, Tableau published its Top 10 Business Intelligence Trends 2018 report and, much like the return of the Pumpkin Spice Latte at my local Starbucks and the twinkling...
Early in my career, thanks to some great managers, I was fortunate to have landed in a position with the responsibility of regularly presenting the performance of the business...
Are there really more hurricanes? What are the numbers telling us? This is a classic example of how you can make false claims by using summarized data and overlooking...
When working within a BI team, achieving a sufficient level of organisation and efficiency can be tricky - most notably due to team size, the complexity of work, and the difficulty...
When working in any form of enterprise environment, data access generally needs to be restricted for different departments, roles, and individuals, based on a set of defined...
Flight or network maps are great for displaying data in a unique way; they can be used to show the flow of goods, people, deliveries, etc. Within my current project, these maps...
Many people and organisations are considering moving their existing QlikView applications into Qlik's more modern product offering, Qlik Sense. So far, Qlik have been...
Shapes in Tableau are a powerful way to tell a story and help to enhance key information to your users on a dashboard, as well a way to create buttons in Tableau. There are...
Following on from the development of a fairly large and complex Qlikview application for analysing customer journeys, the MI team at a global private bank were faced with a...
Until Microsoft have updated Power BI with Dynamic Parameters, What If analysis will be a little tricky. This post will take you through how to build a What If report in Power BI...
When it comes to helping our clients make data driven decisions, forecasting and What If analysis are two of our key tools. At the end of 2016, Power BI made forecasting based...
Gamification is the concept of applying elements of game playing to other areas of activity to motivate, engage and change user behaviour. Companies have long been gamifying...
QlikView has established itself as one of the most comprehensive business discovery and analytics platforms of the modern BI market. With it’s in-memory processing and...
Geoanalytics is the approach of applying spatial analysis to our data in order to understand our world, where things are, how they relate together, and what actions...
Hans Rosling was a Swedish academic who was best known for his TED talks using data to explore developmental issues around the world. He was the co-founder and chairman...
An interactive and creative dashboard often needs to have numerous charts that are shown and hidden in response to a users' actions. In Tableau, charts can be made to...
MicroStrategy, the culmination of over 20 years of BI experience from the Washington based company of the same name, offers a unified enterprise platform on which to...
In Tableau, there are multiple ways you can filter and restrict your data. This can be either to improve performance, to give the viewer the correct information, or to highlight...
Having recently added IBM’s document capture system, IBM Datacap, to our client offerings, this post will briefly summarise its features and capabilities. Datacap enables...
While Tableau, QlikView and Microsoft’s Power BI are all competitive market leaders in the BI sector, each specialises somewhat differently. Tableau’s user friendly drag and drop...
This blog post is a bit of a summary of a more ongoing project of mine. If you're interested reading more, see my Qlikview Skeleton Repository on GitHub...
For those of you familiar with QlikView, you should know the Binary Load. A Binary Load allows you to rapidly load all of the data from one QVW into another, with the...
Visualising your data on a map can be very insightful and interesting. This post will walk you through how to plot your geolocational data on a map in QlikView. Generating...
Market Abuse Regulations (MAR) took effect on July 3 2016 across the EU. In order to align with these new set of rules, financial institutions operating in financial markets...
You might have seen a custom table in QlikView before. These allow users to build their own reports, selecting a combination of dimensions and measures from a pre-defined...
Keyrus were at Alteryx’s Inspire Europe conference again this year and had an engaging and informative two days. There was a lot to learn about their new offerings, the...
In previous blog articles, we have covered how to use the Python library, BeautifulSoup to programmatically navigate through websites and extract useful data.
Previously in the "Your First Machine Learning Pipeline Series", we learned how to run a model on breast cancer data and select a feature set using the RFE algorithm...
This blog will cover how we can implement stacking and ensembling of multiple machine learning models into a single predictive model in Python. Stacking predictive models is...
I see you’re ready for the next part of the "Your First Machine Learning Pipeline" series – part II! If you’re new to this series, you can begin by following along with the first post...
The Python programming language is often associated with Data Science and it's applications. This is in part due to the Scikit-Learn library, one of python's excellent...
In the first part of this series of blog posts we created a simple webscraper in Python that would go to Yahoo Finance and fetch a table of currency exchange rates. There are a...
A common problem many data science projects face is where to source data from. One of the richest sources of external data is the web, and being able to access websites and...
A common problem across businesses in many different industries is customer churn. Businesses often have to invest substantial amounts of money in attracting new clients...
Using the sample Alteryx module, Forest Model, the following article explains the R generated output. If you would like to view the data and output yourself using Alteryx...
Twitter’s data can often provide valuable insight into your company's products, brand, clients, or competition. You can extract sentiment, volume, what's trending, and....
Following on from my previous article on fuzzy matching rather disparate data sources, this post will detail further methods of comparing and matching entities, as well as...
Often when dealing with internal data - whether it be from CRM or ERP systems, relational databases full of financial transactions or product information, or anything else of a...
If you're reading this post, I'm sure you're probably wondering, "What is it like to work at Keyrus?" "What kind of people will I be working with?" "Are there socials?" All these...
The provision of reliable and enabling technology is increasingly becoming a key differentiator for Higher Education institutions on the backdrop of increasing ...
On 6th June 2017, Keyrus kicked off a series of informative articles, webinars and events dedicated to the importance of the single customer journey and customer interface...
As a global consultancy specialising in data, analytics and digital for over 20 years, Keyrus constantly needs to respond to the major challenges facing enterprises today. In what is...
Since the emergence of the Data Protection Act (DPA) in 1998, there has been a strong focus on legislation surrounding how personal data is handled and protected. In just...
Not a Vim or Nano master, or just can’t get a hang of the HJKL? Had enough of SCP-ing or WinSCP-ing files to local? Look no further; whether you access your servers through...
Reflecting on a year where much has happened across the world of data and analytics, below we make our predictions for key trends to look out for 2017. We’d love to hear...
On 22nd September 2016 Keyrus hosted this year’s Driven by Data Summit – Harnessing Disruption in the 4th Industrial Revolution. This year's theme looked to discuss the ever...
Welcome to Keyrus UK official blog. Starting today, we will be posting weekly articles on everything that enables us and our clients to be data driven companies - from reviews of...
When launching an EC2 instance on AWS, you can choose from not just the AMIs (Amazon Machine Instances) offered by AWS, but also from the Marketplace, which has a lot more...
For those of you who have screen sessions open with a variation of the following #!/bin/bash while: do ...do something... sleep 360 done, it doesn't need to be like this...
First of all, merry christmas and a happy new year to you all. To welcome you into 2017, and rekindle our brains after NYE, we thought we'd write down a few Bash commands...
In a world where data is being processed at an inconceivable rate, companies are constantly striving to gain that competitive edge through data analytics. This is...
In this article, I will provide an overview of the binary search and insertion sort algorithms. A Python implementation of these concepts will also be provided to help build understanding.
This March has seen another edition of a celebration of Women's day and with it numerous marches and demonstrations for women's rights. Indeed though...
Now that the Keyrus UK blog has been up and running for a little while, with both the design and underlying processes settling into place, we thought it would be...