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Happy International Women in Engineering Day! Here at Bays, we’re committed to supporting our female colleagues and helping them reach their career goals. That’s why we’re so excited about today, where we’ll be recognising our amazing women in engineering and technology, sharing their stories with the world, and celebrating them as an inspiration for other… Continue reading Women in STEM: An interview with Holly Jones

This blog will show you how to create word documents (.docx) using Python. This can be very useful, especially in the generation of reports. I’ll be using below report as an example. The library that will be used to do this in this blog is docx v0.8.11. In [1]: # !pip install python-docx=0.8.11 Libraries: In [2]: import pandas… Continue reading How to create word documents (.docx) using Python

With a degree in Master of Arts, I never dreamt of working in data science and alongside some great mathematicians and number nurds. After more than a decade working in marketing, and a year with Bays Consulting, I’m now proudly calling myself a Baytonian. So, what does our company Bays Consulting do? We deliver data… Continue reading We are Baytonians

Covid restrictions are lift, companies are asking themselves the questions about what the new way of working will look like. I have been asked a few times how our ‘remote company with an office’ operates. I thought this is a good opportunity to write about it in my overdue blog! Bays is a 12 person… Continue reading Remotely Flexible: Our Way of Working.

Positive workplace culture is essential to small business productivity, as toxic cultures are estimated to cost the UK economy an eye-watering £15.7 billion per year. This month, Bays Consulting have joined a growing community of businesses, who are showing their investment in creating a positive workplace culture for their team by joining the Breathe Culture… Continue reading Bays Consulting joins the Breathe Culture Pledge

After the recent widely publicised comments by Katharine Birbalsingh that ‘girls don’t like hard maths’, she followed it up with a tweet which said: ‘Why are people scared of the evidence that says that in general men are more systematic and women more empathetic.  Why can’t we say that out loud? That doesn’t mean there… Continue reading Hard Maths and Empathy

I want to see how many times proper nouns are mentioned in the text I’m using (the first part of Pride and Prejudice) and whether any of them are Mr. Darcy. There are a few ways to identify parts of speech in text, however I’m going to be using TextBlob, a Python library. I’ll to… Continue reading Identifying parts of speech in text using TextBlob, will I find Mr. Darcy?

This time it was over the subject of children’s nursery rhymes. Having brought up three urchins, one became well versed in playing them with all manner of nursery rhymes and little ditties. If you have, or are even remotely associated with, children you are probably familiar with things like “Old King Cole”, “The Cat and… Continue reading I have been Disapproved of. Again.

Bays Consulting is calling all Sunderland residents to help complete an online survey about potential cold and damp in their homes, between 8th to 29th April. Bays Consulting are working with Sunderland City Council, Connected Places Catapult and Parity Projects on the Homes for Healthy Ageing programme to develop an innovative solution to help elderly people to… Continue reading Bays Consulting conducting a survey on cold and damp in homes in Sunderland