Machine Learning in Consumer Credit: A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Mitigating Bias
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
The financial services sector was one of the first industries to widely adopt predictive modeling, starting with Bayesian statistics in the 1960s and evolving after the advent of neural networks to deep learning and beyond. Machine learning applications in this industry are endless, whether in auditing, fraud detection, credit scoring, or others.
Raw Strings and String Interpolation
Monday, August 22, 2022
Our declarative modeling language Rel has been expanded to include new string functionalities to better handle and manipulate string data.
Understanding Our World
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Rel is not a procedural language. It is a relational declarative language with roots in logic programming. Rel goes far beyond a simple type system by allowing you to define the rules your creations have to obey. Definitions are not methods that turn input into output, but rather rules that can be evaluated in both directions.
Is Database Administrator Still a Good Job?
Thursday, August 11, 2022
The job of a database adminstrator is evolving, just as almost all careers in IT. DBAs are often the ones closest to the task of capturing the real world. This is arguably the base of the entire application stack. If you model is wrong, your data will be wrong, your predictions will be wrong, your decisions will be wrong. It all falls apart without the right model. It falls apart without those people who know what to capture and in what detail, what to connect and in what ways. That's the DBA.
Good Neighbors
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Rel supports relations as arguments, recursion, variable arguments and inlined definitions that reference other inlined definitions. These features give you tremendous power so you can express your business logic clearly and concisely. Power that was typically reserved for procedural languages is now available in your models and queries.
Playing With Legos
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Do you remember playing with legos as a kid? This is what our query language Rel feels like. You don’t have to write 300 lines of SQL code and go absolutely insane trying to debug or handle it all in your head. You make progress with every little definition. You can divide and conquer the problem by building small pieces, combining them together and creating something that is greater than the sum of its parts.