This blog is an extension of my previous one titled “How to create word documents (.docx) using Python“. In the previous blog, I explained about how we can generate MS Word reports (or documents in general) from scratch using Python. While building a document from scratch in Python gives you all the flexibility of the… Continue reading Generating Word Documents Using a Template in Python
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Dr. Sophie Carr and Bays Team Honoured at the Dynamic Awards 2023
We are delighted to share that Bays Consulting, led by Dr Sophie Carr, has achieved tremendous success at the Dynamic Awards 2023. This prestigious event, dedicated to recognising and rewarding women’s contributions to the business community, celebrated our team’s outstanding achievements. Following the resounding success of the inaugural event, the 2023 Dynamic Awards expanded its… Continue reading Dr. Sophie Carr and Bays Team Honoured at the Dynamic Awards 2023
Microsoft’s Myriad Modules
Choosing the topic for a specialist technical blog is hard when you are a generalist. I pride myself in being ‘not very good at lots of things’, and depending on how you are feeling you can emphasise different parts of that sentence. One factor of being a generalist is that I have used a lot… Continue reading Microsoft’s Myriad Modules
Navigating Business Awards: Choosing the Right Ones for Your Business
Small businesses need to stand out in today’s competitive business landscape. Participating in business awards can provide valuable exposure and enhance credibility. Even if you don’t win, being a finalist alone gives access to great opportunities, creating anticipation and buzz around the awards announcement. As a data consulting company and a small business, we are… Continue reading Navigating Business Awards: Choosing the Right Ones for Your Business
Bays Receives High Commendation at the British Data Awards 2023
We’re thrilled to announce that Bays Consulting have been highly commended in the ‘Data for Good Consulting Initiative of the Year’ category at the British Data Awards 2023! The ‘Data for Good Consulting Initiative of the year’ category recognises organisations that have demonstrated a strong commitment to using data for social good. The judges were… Continue reading Bays Receives High Commendation at the British Data Awards 2023
In praise of the trade show
At Bays we have recently enjoyed our second year of exhibiting at the Security & Policing Expo in Farnborough, UK. Over three days we had the opportunity to showcase some of the solutions we are developing, met existing and potential clients, and networked with partners and friends from the sectors we work in. It was… Continue reading In praise of the trade show
Hyperparameter Tuning a YOLOv8 Model with Amazon SageMaker
Object detection is a computer vision task that involves identifying objects in both images and videos. YOLO (You Only Look Once) is a state-of-the-art object detection model that is widely used within the computer vision field. It uses a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that takes an image and predicts bounding boxes around objects and the… Continue reading Hyperparameter Tuning a YOLOv8 Model with Amazon SageMaker
Reducing Meeting Fatigue and Boosting Productivity: A Remote Team’s Strategy
Bays have recently introduced a new policy, blocking out Wednesday afternoons for dedicated desk time. In principal, this means that we don’t arrange any meetings on a Wednesday afternoon, giving our team a period of uninterrupted focus time. In practice, we can find ourselves at the mercy of notifications that keep pulling us away from… Continue reading Reducing Meeting Fatigue and Boosting Productivity: A Remote Team’s Strategy
CloudWatch and Watching the Cloud
The need for simple alerts When designing a security strategy, and particularly when implementing security monitoring, one can easily fall into the trap of focussing exclusively on the more sophisticated, next-generation monitoring at the expense of more basic alerts. At Bays Consulting, we have been using GuardDuty for a while to help keep an eye… Continue reading CloudWatch and Watching the Cloud
We’re a British Data Awards 2023 Finalist
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been named a Finalist in the British Data Awards 2023 for both the ‘Best Place to work in Data’ and the ‘Data for Good Consulting Initiative’ of the Year categories. The British Data Awards is an annual quest to discover and celebrate data success stories across a diverse range… Continue reading We’re a British Data Awards 2023 Finalist