Resources
Blogs
Snowflake's Data Sharing: Unlocking the Power of Collaborative Analytics
Here we review Snowflake, a cloud-based data platform, that has emerged as a game-changer with its powerful data-sharing feature. The platform will be an important feature in the toolkit for financial services for staying ahead in the competitive landscape of data science and analytics.
Excel's breaking point: The case for data-driven precision in store-specific space plans
Embracing optimised store-specific space plans is a strategic imperative for modern day retailers. By optimising space utilisation, adapting to dynamic market shifts and enhancing shopping experience by identifying and catering to unique customer missions, macro space optimisations empower retailers to craft customised strategies for each of their locations.
Streamlit - Enabling rapid deployment of light weight web applications
Streamlit has emerged as a game-changing technology in supporting the process of building lightweight web applications, enabling us to transform models into functional, user-friendly applications at speed, requiring minimal writing of code.
Unleash Your Organisation's Collective Knowledge with AskQS AI Search
As part of our ongoing commitment to innovation for our clients, QuantSpark has built ‘AskQS’, a new AI-powered assistant that plugs into corporate networks and empowers employees for effortless knowledge discovery.
Investing in Data Science Teams: Where should Investors Begin?
Access to the right tech talent is essential for investors to drive value creation at the portfolio level. But how should you choose the best team for your situation?
The Key to Successful Churn Renewals Analytics: Actionable Insights, Building Trust, and Optimizing Model Accuracy
Advanced analytics can help predict customer churn and inform proactive outreach. But models must provide actionable insights and build trust to drive value.
GPT and Large Language Models: Hold on to Your Hats, Disruption Looms
GPT-4 and other AI advancements have the potential to cause significant disruptions in society, altering both jobs and business models forever.
Advanced Analytics and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a leading cloud computing platform offering a wide range of services, including computing, storage, databases, big data analytics, and machine learning tools, with key advantages such as scalability and cost-effectiveness.
How effective diagnostics generate value for business and pave the way for successful data initiatives
The analytics diagnostic is an essential tool for understanding how an organisation can use data to drive strategy, accelerate ways of working, or simply to make money. Over short sprints, QuantSpark identifies and ranks these opportunities according to feasibility and ROI, creating a supporting roadmap to develop high priority items.
The long-tail opportunity for online retail pricing strategies
Whilst a long-tail of products makes economic sense, the larger the assortment the more reliant the retailer is on automated pricing strategies which can often require sophisticated analytics.
Revenue forecasting: The billion dollar private equity opportunity
Using data analytics can help SaaS businesses – and their private equity backers – make strategic decisions with more confidence. We explain the science behind revenue forecasting, and the revenue forecasting methodology recently developed for a private equity client.
Automating asset management - without abandoning Excel
Evolving analytics in asset management doesn’t mean leaving Excel behind.
Yet it does present some areas for improvement: difficulties extracting insights from disparate data; complex-to-interpret calculations and functions.
We take a creative approach to this for asset management clients, building bespoke solutions that evolve — rather than interfere with or replace — their business-critical Excel models.
Private equity buy & build: Enhancing portfolio valuations with data integration
PE investors: Are you prioritising data integration in buy and build?
For a buy and build strategy to succeed, clarity on how each business is performing is essential.
This often requires integrating data from disparate company systems — key for both short-term operations and longer-term validation of investment hypotheses.
With a solid, integrated data backbone, you can later generate the visualisations you need to present a watertight exit valuation case.
How to get the most out of Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web service that provides information and statistics from their search engine use as well as analytical tools to help with search engine optimisation (SEO) and advanced marketing. Google Analytics can provide insight into the activities of a customer from the first click to their last click, following their journey through your site