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Structured outputs with Pydantic AI original ↗

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Naming Things Is Hard original ↗

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Two Engineers, One Mentoring Story: Why Both Sides Win original ↗

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2025

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Introducing Analytics Engineering original ↗

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2024

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Combining text with numerical and categorical features for classification original ↗

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Combining machine learning with rules-based personalisation original ↗

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Ease into Ruby with a Python background original ↗

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My internship project: from ideation to implementation original ↗

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Meet our women in engineering (Part 2)original ↗

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Mindfulness with GitHub original ↗

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How we hire in engineering original ↗

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Type checking in Ruby – Part 1 original ↗

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My experience as an Analytics Intern original ↗

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What a data science degree doesn’t teach you original ↗

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In full flow: moving from Jenkins to Actions – Part 1 original ↗

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How we structure our data teams at FreeAgent original ↗

3 Jun 2022

10 tips and tricks for a good intern job application original ↗

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The three skills you need to be a Data Analyst, and how to get them – Part 3 original ↗

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The three skills you need to be a Data Analyst, and how to get them – Part 2 original ↗

10 May 2022

The three skills you need to be a Data Analyst, and how to get them – Part 1 original ↗

10 May 2022

The legendary data warehouse application original ↗

24 Mar 2022

Hosting Women Who Code Edinburgh original ↗

8 Mar 2022

Trading the lab coat for the computer – my journey to data science original ↗

8 Feb 2022

Training Hugging Face models in parallel with SageMaker original ↗

2 Feb 2022

Our data science hiring process original ↗

28 Jan 2022

Hiding Elements on the Web original ↗

18 Jan 2022

How I prepare for a tech job interview original ↗

5 Jan 2022

2021

Being an Introvert in a Meeting original ↗

30 Nov 2021

Using data to understand the effects of a four day working week original ↗

27 Oct 2021

Here’s to Thriday original ↗

4 Oct 2021

Fine-Tuning BERT for multiclass categorisation with Amazon SageMaker original ↗

15 Sept 2021

Software engineering: 5 things they don’t teach you at university original ↗

10 Sept 2021

The Value of an Internship at FreeAgent original ↗

9 Sept 2021

New wine, old skins – how FreeAgent blends existing tools and fresh approaches original ↗

8 Sept 2021

I Came, I Saw, I Categorised original ↗

7 Sept 2021

Lessons from my first software engineering internship original ↗

6 Sept 2021

Bank Transaction Entity Detection with AWS Comprehend original ↗

17 Aug 2021

Say hello to some of our women in engineering!original ↗

25 Jun 2021

Titlecase, underscore and laser guns original ↗

10 Jun 2021

Engineering Principles at FreeAgent original ↗

14 May 2021

Control freaks: how we built our own version control for Matillion original ↗

27 Apr 2021

A day in the life of a Web Analyst original ↗

9 Apr 2021

Shopping for data: How thinking about supermarkets might help you to manage your Looker implementation original ↗

26 Mar 2021