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Technical Blogs

Using Entity-Entity for the first time
In this blog, we ask Rosie Lang (Principal Data Engineer at Quantexa) to share her experience and walk us through the set up and use of Quantexa's Entity-Entity, a feature which allows you to see how individual Entities are associated. So what’s Entity-Entity all about?Figure 1. Entity-Entity Entity-Entity allows you to…
Introduction to the Quantexa Academy
About the Quantexa Academy The Quantexa Academy is a modular learning experience that teaches individuals the key skills needed to successfully develop, deploy, and use the Quantexa platform. It offers a range of eLearning programs. The technical certification programs (Academies) offer assessments that allow learners to…
Become a Quantexa deployment wizard! - launching Quantexa's Deployment Engineering Best Practices!
Want to know neat tricks for deploying Quantexa? Our architects have distilled their favourite deployment learnings into a brand new best practice section on the documentation site which will help you deliver and run high quality Quantexa deployments. These learnings come from deploying Quantexa over many years at dozens…
So you want to perform an upgrade?
Why are upgrades so important in the tech industry?To keep your data secure.Critical to security, upgrades come with the latest versions of third party software, reducing risk from vulnerabilities, such as the Heartbleed Bug which affects older versions of openSSL. To take the latest features.Upgrades come with a host of…
Introducing the Latest Quantexa Module: QPython
In this article, we'll introduce QPython and give some examples of how your data scientists could use it for interacting with the Quantexa platform. The Quantexa Decision Intelligence Platform is a powerful tool underpinned by a set of capabilities for performing complex analytics with Quantexa-processed data, such as…
Predicting Risk through Network Shape
Encoding network shape has been a big factor in the success of our recent shell company detection machine learning model. Central to the model is the ability to evaluate the context of a business – given by the network of nodes surrounding it – in a way that can be input into explainable ML models. Early on in our…
Release Notes overview
Our Release Notes have everything you need to know about the features, capabilities, fixes, and improvements in each release of The Quantexa Platform, so it's a very important and popular area of our Documentation Site. On Community, you'll find the latest Release Notes in the release announcements category. What can I…
Using Assess Dynamic Scoring for the first time
This blog is about getting a simple Dynamic Scoring pipeline off the ground in Quantexa version 2.0.0, to get some Scores showing in your User Interface (UI). So what’s Assess Dynamic Scoring all about? Figure 1. Assess Dynamic Scoring Compared to getting basic Dynamic Scoring working in Scoring Framework 1 (SF1), it’s…
Scala Prerequisite Assessment for Quantexa Certification Academies
*Scala is a trade name of Lightbend Inc. Intro In this article, we will answer a few popular questions about the Scala* Prerequisite Assessment - the first major challenge on your path to becoming a Quantexa Certified Data Engineer or Scoring Engineer. You can learn more about these two certification programs in the…
Underlying platforms used by Quantexa
Introduction Quantexa makes extensive use of underlying platforms to enable it to operate at reliably at scale. When choosing these platforms the key principles were that they should be: Open source such that customers would be able to deploy them without incurring licence costs Widely adopted such that there is a large…