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What is a vector index and how does it benefit my business?
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What is a vector index and how does it benefit my business?

You are probably familiar with traditional databases. For example, a teacher at a school will need to enter students’ grades into a system where they get stored, and at the end of the year the grades would need to be retrieved to create the report card for each student. Or an employee database might store employees’ home addresses, pay grades, start dates, and other crucial information. Traditionally, organisations use a structure called a relational database, where different types of data are stored in different tables, with links between them, and they can be queried using a special language called SQL.

How AI can predict costs of projects
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How AI can predict costs of projects

A problem we’ve come across repeatedly is how AI can be used to estimate how much a project will cost, based on information known before the project begins, or soon after it starts. By “project” I mean a large project in any industry, including construction, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, IT, or transport, but this could equally apply to something like a kitchen renovation.

Should lawyers stop using generative AI to prepare their legal arguments?
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Should lawyers stop using generative AI to prepare their legal arguments?

Senior lawyers should stop using generative AI to prepare their legal arguments! Or should they? A High Court judge in the UK has told senior lawyers off for their use of ChatGPT, because it invents citations to cases and laws that don’t exist!

Fast Data Science at Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics on 27 June 2025
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Fast Data Science at Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics on 27 June 2025

Fast Data Science appeared at the Hamlyn Symposium event on “Healing Through Collaboration: Open-Source Software in Surgical, Biomedical and AI Technologies” Thomas Wood of Fast Data Science appeared in a panel at the Hamlyn Symposium workshop titled “Healing Through Collaboration: Open-Source Software in Surgical, Biomedical and AI Technologies”. This was at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics on 27th June 2025 at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Fast Data Science at The 4th Annual Conference on the Intersection of Corporate Law and Technology on 23 June 2025
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Fast Data Science at The 4th Annual Conference on the Intersection of Corporate Law and Technology on 23 June 2025

We presented the Insolvency Bot at the 4th Annual Conference on the Intersection of Corporate Law and Technology at Nottingham Trent University Dr Eugenio Vaccari of Royal Holloway University and Thomas Wood of Fast Data Science presented “A Generative AI-Based Legal Advice Tool for Small Businesses in Distress” at the 4th Annual Conference on the Intersection of Corporate Law and Technology at Nottingham Trent University

Generative AI consulting
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Generative AI consulting

What is generative AI consulting? We have been taking on data science engagements for a number of years. Our main focus has always been textual data, so we have an arsenal of traditional natural language processing techniques to tackle any problem a client could throw at us.

Clinical Trial Files podcast episode

Clinical Trial Files podcast episode

Listen to the new episode of the Clinical Trial Files podcast, where Karin Avila, Taymeyah Al-Toubah and Thomas Wood of Fast Data Science chat about AI and NLP in pharma, the Clinical Trial Risk Tool, what impact AI can make in clinical trials. This episode commemorates Alan Turing’s 113rd birthday on 23 June 2025.

Drug Name Recogniser Google Sheets™ plugin updated
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Drug Name Recogniser Google Sheets™ plugin updated

Drug Name Recogniser Google Sheets plugin update We have updated the Drug Name Recogniser Google Sheets™ plugin to cover molecular mass, chemical formula and SMILES strings.

Fast Data Science and Harmony at AI UK with Alan Turing Institute on 17-18 Mar 2025
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Fast Data Science and Harmony at AI UK with Alan Turing Institute on 17-18 Mar 2025

Harmony: A new AI data tool for Research at the Alan Turing Institute The Harmony project is an Official Partner of AI UK 2025, the UK’s national showcase of data science and artificial intelligence, hosted by The Alan Turing Institute.

Can AI handle legal questions yet?  The return of the Insolvency Bot
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Can AI handle legal questions yet? The return of the Insolvency Bot

Can AI handle legal questions yet? We have compared the capabilities of the older and newer large language models (LLMs) on English and Welsh insolvency law questions, as a continuation of the Insolvency Bot project.

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