We’ve added datasets and documentation enhancements to the recent 0.18.4 release of Kedro — Jo Stichbury, Technical Writer, QuantumBlack Labs Since its inception there have been some major milestones in the lifetime of Kedro. From being open-sourced in 2019, to being donated to the Linux Foundation. Kedro is constantly being developed and the latest release, made in December 2022, brings a raft of changes…

Himanshu Godara, senior data engineer; Nehil Jain, junior principal data engineer at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey. About five years ago, Maxime Beauchemin, creator of Apache Airflow and Apache Superset, talked about data engineers (DE) having the worst seat at the table. Thankfully, much effort has been invested in improving how…

Emily Jones, Vanita Kalaichelvan, Giulio Morina and Julian Waton, Data Scientists, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey At a basic level, AI learns from our history. Unfortunately, much of societal history includes some discrimination and inequality. It’s therefore essential that data practitioners consider this in their work as AI built without acknowledgement…

Merel Theisen, tech lead for Kedro Framework At QuantumBlack, we’ve always asserted that the only useful data science code is production-level. That’s why we developed Kedro, a development workflow framework which aims to become the industry standard for developing production-ready data science code. Since its inception in 2019, Kedro has…

Helen Mayhew, Partner, and Nicholas Fletcher, Associate Partner, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey The 11th of October marks Ada Lovelace Day, a special moment in the annual tech calendar. It’s an International Day of Recognition that celebrates women in STEM, named after the woman widely recognised as the world’s first computer…

Garazi Gomez de Segura Solay, Senior Data Scientist, Sam Hiscox, Senior Data Engineer and Shawn Tan, Data Engineer, QuantumBlack Many people seeking their first job often find themselves in an age-old and challenging loop: you can’t gain employment without experience and you can’t gain experience without employment. A similar refrain…

Hamza Oza, Senior Designer, QuantumBlack and Visiting Tutor at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London The advanced analytics industry has matured significantly in recent years and today’s analytics teams now include product managers and designers as well as engineers. However, it can sometimes be difficult for those…

Doug Cha, Senior Expert; Mathieu Dumoulin, Senior Expert; Benjaluck Yuttisee, Senior Digital Consultant; and Bruce Philp, Partner, QuantumBlack At QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, we focus on providing advanced analytics solutions for clients, which often requires building or upgrading that client’s existing data platforms. Over time we’ve collectively poured over hundreds…

The intersection of art and data has been a fascinating area of creativity and innovation for decades. Generative art — a concept where part or all of an artwork is created by an autonomous system — can trace its roots back to the 1960s, while the Algorist movement of the…