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How To Test Your Upgrades
This guide will equip you with robust guiding principles for effectively testing a product upgrade. Adhering to the guidelines outlined in How To Test Your Upgrades will help streamline your testing process, ensuring that time is spent efficiently and in accordance with risk-based testing principles. This includes: Setting…
Elastic Load Optimization Strategies 📖
Loading data into Elasticsearch can sometimes lead to performance issues, such as slow data loads or loads that fail to complete. The Elastic Load Optimization Strategies guide outlines actionable steps to help improve the performance and reliability of Elasticsearch loads. Key Elastic load optimization strategies: Shard…
Entity Quality: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 🎭
This article looks at Entity Quality and how to judge it based on business need. It introduces Overlinking and Underlinking as a product of Entity Resolution, and these two concepts are two ends of a continuum. Entity Quality is the bedrock of any Entity Resolution (ER) based solution and has implications up and down the…
📣 Announcing Our Upcoming Webinar: Tips & Tricks for Managing Large and Complex Networks 📣
We’re excited to announce our upcoming session based on the very popular article Tips & Tricks for Managing Large and Complex Networks by @Stacey_Parsons. In this session, Stacey will team up with @Mark_Cossey, Head of Product Design, and @Matt_Long, Head of AML Solutions, to delve into practical strategies and new…
Building a Centre of Excellence, & other treats from the Quantexa Community
🎃 No Tricks, Just Treats: October Top Picks 👻 🆕Library Area: Centre of Excellence Introducing our new Community Library area filled with articles on building a Quantexa Centre of Excellence including deep dives into people, processes, and technology. Highlights include: Overview: Building a Centre of Excellence People:…
Business Analyst Entity Review Checklist 📋
Conducting a focused evaluation of Entity Resolution is a critical step in the Entity Maturity Checklist. This article provides a step-by-step guide and scoring system to help Business Analysts assess the state of Entity Resolution within their deployment. Each section includes a scoring guide, with scores ranging from 0…
Join the Race to 3000 Members!
🎉The Quantexa Community is on the brink of hitting a huge milestone: 3000 members 🎉 We want to celebrate this milestone so we're running a competition where you could win exclusive Community-branded swag! Here’s how it works: Recommend a colleague to join the Community. Request the "Recommend a Friend" badge and, in the…
Using Batch Resolver Tools for Entity Resolution
Entity Resolution (ER) is a key part of the Quantexa solution. It is important to understand how changes to improve Entity Resolution can affect the entire Entity population. If you are new to Entity Resolution at Quantexa, take some time to familiarize yourself with the concept introduced on our Documentation Site page…
Community Training Program, Multi Use Case Best Practice Guides, and more top picks from November!
Here's what you might have missed this month on the Quantexa Community: 🆕Community Training Program Powered by the Quantexa Academy, the Community Training Program provides Community members with easy access to the content of the Quantexa User Foundations (QUF) program at no extra cost. What's Included This program…
Announcing our latest Community Member Spotlight... @fshahin31
Announcing our latest Community Member Spotlight... @fshahin31 Faheem was one of the first Community Members back in December 2022. Since then, he's been asking excellent questions to help implement the Quantexa Platform and, more recently, sharing tech tips to help out other Community Members - which has earned him the…

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Academy Support Call Schedule
This post will have the latest information on Quantexa Academy Support Calls. The Academy Team will post a comment below to inform you of any cancellations for the week. To ensure you are up-to-date on the schedule, we recommend bookmarking this post so you receive a notification informing you of the updates. To bookmark a…
Announcing the new Quantexa Product Roadmap and Ideas Portal 🚀
We’re excited to introduce the new Product Roadmap and Ideas Portal, designed to enrich your ideation experience and deepen your involvement in our product development process. This portal gives you a direct view of our product roadmap and the chance to share your feedback so that together, we can shape the future of our…
Announcing our latest Community Member Spotlight... @fshahin31
Announcing our latest Community Member Spotlight... @fshahin31 Faheem was one of the first Community Members back in December 2022. Since then, he's been asking excellent questions to help implement the Quantexa Platform and, more recently, sharing tech tips to help out other Community Members - which has earned him the…
Scoring Concepts: Network Generation & Design
Learn Effective Network Generation & Design Explore the essential concepts and tools behind network generation in Scoring Concepts: Network Generation & Design. Networks are central to Quantexa solutions, offering context to complex datasets through nodes and edges. Nodes can represent either: Documents, a hierarchical…
2.7 Quantexa Upgrade Guide
Quantexa 2.7 Upgrade Guide The 2.7 Quantexa Upgrade introduces several important updates, and this guide provides additional guidance to support the transition. The upgrade includes: Core Product Changes: Migration to Data Lake, integrated ETL validation tools, updated Graph Script utilities, and more. Data Packs…
2.7 Quantexa Upgrade Guide
This guide aims to provide additional complementary guidance to that on the Docs Site related to the 2.7 Quantexa Upgrade. The 2.7 Quantexa Upgrade consists of three main parts: Core Product Changes Removal of Quantexa Incubators Data Packs Migration Read the full guide (login required):
Technical Lead
The Role The Technical Lead (TL) plays a key role in leading developer teams to implement the Quantexa Platform. The TL guides and mentors the team of data engineers to solve complex technical problems. They engage with stakeholders to translate requirements into technical tasks and balance their time between hands-on…
Senior Data Engineer
The Role The Senior Data Engineer is a professional who designs, constructs, and maintains systems that collect, store, and analyse large amounts of data. They are the main contributor to project development. They design and own complex epics, working with stakeholders to garther requirements, design approach and…
Upgrades Collection
Below you can find links to all the articles and discussions relating to Upgrades in the Community. 🗒️Articles available to everyone So You Want to Perform an Upgrade? Project Documentation to support you in upgrading Quantexa 🔒Log in required Development: Upgrade Guides 2.7 Quantexa Upgrade Guide What's it Like to Perform…
Holiday Networking Party - ACAMS Boston - Join US!!!
Come and join Quantexa, PwC and Hummingbird as we network during the holidays. Thursday - 12/19/24 - 5-7:30 PM EST Register here: https://lnkd.in/gWkPMtT5
Technical Lead Job Specification
This job specification highlights the core activities and skills essential for Technical Leads working with the Quantexa Platform. For technical leads working with the Quantexa Platform, the tools, responsibilities, and expertise recommended to meet industry standards are outlined. For hiring managers, it serves as a…
Senior Data Engineer Job Specification
This job specification highlights the core activities and skills essential for Senior Data Engineers working with the Quantexa Platform. We recommend Senior Data Engineers have at least four years of industry experience as a Data Engineer or in an equivalent role. For senior data engineers working with the Quantexa…
How To Test Your Upgrades
This guide will equip you with robust guiding principles for effectively testing a product upgrade. Adhering to the guidelines outlined in How To Test Your Upgrades will help streamline your testing process, ensuring that time is spent efficiently and in accordance with risk-based testing principles. This includes: Setting…
Scorecard Tuning📋
Scoring is a key part of the Quantexa Platform, and to maximise effectiveness needs to be tuned in an ongoing iterative process. There are various elements in the scoring process that can be tuned, and this article serves as a guide as to methods that can be employed to do so. Read the full article (login required):
Data Engineer Job Specification
This job specification highlights the core activities and skills essential for Data Engineers working with the Quantexa Platform. For data engineers working with the Quantexa Platform, the tools, responsibilities, and expertise recommended to meet industry standards are outlined. For hiring managers, it serves as a…
New guide 📖 Scoring Concepts: Write-Once Steps
Discover how to efficiently use Write-Once Steps in the Assess framework for data transformation. This detailed guide complements the Write-Once Steps documentation and helps you determine when to apply Write-Once Steps effectively in both Batch and Dynamic Scoring contexts. Key topics covered: The potential cost of using…

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4. How to add Edge Labels to the Quantexa UI
This article covers the importance of Edge Labels and walks through the necessary setup to display them in your User Interface (UI). What are Edge Labels? A Network in the Quantexa UI consists of a collection of Nodes (Documents or Entities) and Edges representing a relationship between those Nodes. Edge Labels are added…
6. How to make the most out of Intellij IDEA
This guide covers useful setup, resources and resolutions to typical issues encountered in Intellij IDEA when developing the Quantexa solution. Importance of setting up Intellij IDEA Intellij IDEA is an Integrated Development Editor (IDE). An IDE comes with more features than a typical text editor to improve software…
How I Became a... Technical Lead
Meet Charlotte… My current job title is Lead Data Engineer, but this captures a variety of activities. The things I’m responsible for range from technical leadership of a project team (coordinating the Development Team and contributing to the technical work needed to deliver the Quantexa), to leading the Data Practice…
What can Network structure tell us about risk?
By Matt Jackson and Christina Tkachenko Background Corporate registry Documents provide useful structured information for use in risk modelling. In particular, the information within can be a good indicator of suspicious activity. Yet, sometimes this information is not enough to inform a decision or take an action. By…
AI at Quantexa
AI is at the heart of the Quantexa Decision Intelligence Platform, helping users unify data and create context to make accurate and reliable decisions. Machine Learning (ML) and AI are applied in four distinct areas within the Quantexa Platform: Composite AI within Quantexa The Quantexa Platform uses multiple AI techniques…
A day in the life of Monty... Chief Innovation Mascot
To fully explain Monty’s role as a chief innovation mascot we need to first start with some other introductions. Let’s start with @Parsa_Ghaffari , entrepreneur extraordinaire, previous CEO of Aylien (now part of Quantexa and known as News Intelligence), initial creator of Q Assist and Head of Product Innovation. Product…
A day in the life of... a Technical Business Analyst
The Business Analyst Team serves as a key link between our technical developers and the end users. Our role is to help clients navigate their journey towards achieving optimal technical and business solutions across a variety of use cases. Day-to-day, we collaborate with Project Managers, Technical Leads (TLs), Solution…
3. Quantexa Best Practice: Move Fast, Break Less, 😊 More
This article is to explain the benefits of following Quantexa's Best Practice when delivering your Quantexa deployment, and provide a high level view of what those best practices are. Why follow Quantexa’s Best Practice? Quantexa’s Best Practice is born from real-world learnings. These learnings developed practices that…
1. Multi Use Case Best Practice
The Quantexa Platform is not a point solution; it has been developed on fundamental principles of flexibility and scalability, and supports multiple business applications or use cases in a single system. Many Quantexa deployments will originally serve a single use case, although some may be intended for broader use from…
A Day in the Life of a... Data Engineer
The Data Engineering team at Quantexa is responsible for implementing Quantexa’s technology solutions for clients worldwide, spanning various sectors such as banking, insurance, government, and healthcare. We manage the entire data pipeline, from ETL processes to UI configuration. Our tasks include ingestion of the data,…

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