Guiding Companies Toward Climate Action and Compliance
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is an organization that helps companies and financial institutions set goals to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions
Grey Data isn’t Good for Business
Using scraped or grey data for building data models can present several risks and ethical concerns, which is why it’s generally advised to avoid relying on such data.
Address Insights Reimagined
In today’s dynamic business environment, particularly within the retail, real estate, and service sectors, leveraging precise location data has become indispensable.
Point Sigma Improve AI-driven Analytics
Identifying and swiftly responding to data-driven insights across a range of needs from marketing and credit risk through to customer service and collections is now a common, business critical requirement.
Stop Scraping Open Data!
Looking back into the deep dark days of the early web Before the advent of open Apis Schema.org and RDF, and definitely, well before Artificial intelligence, visual web scraping was one of the very few ways to get structured data out of the web.
Why Data Management is far from ‘NIRVANA’.
Using external data, in particular, to enrich context, improve accuracy or broaden scope matters significantly if data practitioners are to deepen insights, improve predictions, or personalise offerings.
What does chronological age mean?
Chronological age is a concept that measures the number of years a person has been alive since birth, chronological age forms the basis of our understanding of time and aging.
Comparable Areas, OA or LSOA?
Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) fit within Local Authority boundaries and Output Areas (OA) fit within an LSOA. These were originally developed as part of the census to allow for comparison across different parts of the country.
Experienced data buyers discover Doorda via Nomad Data
Doorda, a UK data provider specializing in property, business, and geo-demographic data, has partnered with Nomad Data to discover sophisticated data buyers
Insuretechs look to Doorda to construct better client and risk profiles
Doorda provides the insurance sector, from brokers and underwriting platforms to established tier-one insurers, with reliable UK data to improve assessments and recommendations.
Using INNER JOIN versus CROSS JOIN in SQL
Using the right JOIN statement in your SQL code is critical for accurate results. While it might be easy to identify a bad data set when only a few results are returned, it’s not so easy when you have thousands of results.
Should You Use NULL values in Your SQL Database?
If you search for NULL standards in Google, the first page shows you answers from both sides of the debate. Using NULL values in your database is a permanent choice. Once you choose to allow them, you need to allow NULLs in all SQL database tables.
Government and Open Data for AI Start Ups
AI and machine learning start-ups are some of the most exciting and interesting businesses out there today. They are curing diseases, trading trillions of pounds of stock, and making sure your home assistant can understand what you want when you say “OK Google”.
4 Useful Tips for Working with R and RStudio
Working with R and RStudio can be very rewarding as R is one of the most powerful data processing and data visualization programming languages available.
Smoking rates across the UK
Whilst smoking rates are trending downwards nationally there are still pockets where smoking greatly exceeds expected averages. In 2018, 14.7% of people aged 18 years and above smoked cigarettes.
Your biological age can go into reverse
Biological age refers to how old your body seems, based on various physical and functional markers, rather than just counting the years you’ve been alive.
Life expectancy, who wants to live forever?
Life expectancy is a statistical measure that estimates the average number of years a person is expected to live based on various factors such as their birth year, gender, and the overall health and living conditions of a population.
Identify the best locations for new stores using data
Data is a cornerstone of effective location analysis, providing critical insights for businesses aiming to make informed decisions about where to establish their presence.
4 easy ways to Optimize SQL Queries and Enhance Security
The fastest way of improving response times is to Optimize your SQL Queries. Your backend SQL server be it MYSQL or Microsoft is the powerhouse of application performance.
What Our Customers are Saying
“Doorda was differentiated given their unique proposition”
Nigel Wilson
Partner, Deals Insight & Analytics, PWC
“We had to acquire masses of data about the local population as soon as we could”
Vivienne Parsons
Specialist Business Analyst, South Central Ambulance Service
“The new partnership gives our clients more available depth within our existing data products”
Kelly Preston
Managing Director of 118/Market Location
“Doorda has become a trusted data partner and we think there’s a lot more we can do together”
Scott Logie
Customer Engagement Director, Sagacity
“Doorda brought us data we hadn’t seen before”
Mao Ruijia
Lead Growth Analyst, Capital on Tap
“The acceleration in time to value for CARTO customers is a clear win-win.”
Luis Sanz
CEO, CARTO
“Doorda excels in providing the detailed, raw data that is so key”