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In the modern world of portable electronic devices and massive data storage capacities, people often worry about losing their data when they don’t want to. However, there are plenty of times where you do want to ‘lose’ your data, or rather delete it, and be certain that it is truly deleted – especially if it… Continue reading Is Your Data Definitely Deleted or Left Lying Liberally? 

Do you want to play rock, paper, scissors against your computer? Well, here’s how to do it…(Skip to the code at the end if you want to play straight away.) When I looked this up online there were so many ways to write the code for this game, from introducing loops through to using integers instead… Continue reading Rock, paper, scissors

Data is everywhere, from websites, devices, apps, emails, and it all adds up. Companies today, big or small, are faced with an avalanche of data scattered across their organisations. Yet data is critical to businesses if handled correctly and leveraged well. Companies can harness the insights hiding within it, derive more value from the information… Continue reading Data, data science and your business

I did. Really. Yes, it was a long time ago– he’s been gone from the physical world for nigh on 40 years – and it wasn’t really that big a deal. And I had earned it. Probably. I was a reasonably well behaved kid but I did have a few moments. What I was getting… Continue reading I got a thick ear off my dad

It is commonplace these days, to hear expressed the view that humankind, taking all things into account, is not the blessing to our planet we might like to think. This is a view you agree with or not. A conclusion that is difficult to argue with though, is that our species has come to dominate… Continue reading Learning, truth and data science

PDF files are all over the internet and often contain a lot of important information. However, extracting that information can sometimes seem an impossible task. In this blog we will learn how to extract the text from a PDF given here and print out clean sentences in a data frame. First we need to install the following… Continue reading Pages of Difficulty and Frustration: PDFs, and how to use Python to turn their content into Pretty Data Frames

Hugh congratulations to our founder and Managing Director, Dr Sophie Carr on winning the ‘Women in STEM’ of the year award at SheInspires Awards ~ Local and Global last Thursday. Sophie was presented with the award as an inspirational woman in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths as well as a leading entrepreneur. The award… Continue reading Dr Sophie Carr was named the Winner of ‘Women in Stem’ of the Year Award

(Slack notifications for AWS GuardDuty findings) Enabling AWS GuardDuty appears a quick win to improve cloud security. But to be effective, cloud administrators need to be shown its findings quickly, in order to evaluate them and take appropriate action. At Bays Consulting, any GuardDuty findings pop up immediately in Slack; in this blog I will… Continue reading On Guard, Slack Off

Decision Trees (DTs) are a non-parametric supervised learning method used for classification and regression. The goal is to create a model that predicts the value of a target variable by learning simple decision rules inferred from the data features. We’re going to try to predict the species of penguins based on their body measurements. Firstly… Continue reading SK Learn – Decision Trees and Penguins

Sending emails can be a tiresome task at times, especially if you have to send the same email to different people with their names included. This blog will go step-by-step into how to simplify this tedious process using python. The only pre-requisite might be some basic python knowledge. Note: I will be using Python 3 for this blog.… Continue reading How to send a simple email using Python