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Fable's Transaction Data in Action
The Bank of International Settlement (BIS) /The Irving Fisher Committee (IFC) in collaboration with the Bank of Italy has just released...
Nov 17, 2022
Is Food Delivery still cooking or are taste buds changing?
The rise in the use of Food Delivery apps has been well documented with the pandemic serving up a hearty main course for many of the...
Aug 25, 2022
Amazon Prime Day sees UK card transactions increase by 12%
Amazon held its annual Prime Day event on the 12/13th July this year. In an environment where online spending has continued to decline...
Aug 4, 2022
The magic behind an optimised consumer spending panel
At Fable Data we have been very busy working to meet the demand for anonymous European spending data.
May 9, 2022
There has never been a better time to monetise anonymised data
Retail banks are being squeezed by the rising costs of digitisation combined with reducing margins from traditional revenue streams....
Jan 3, 2022
Words to Vectors
Manually tagging millions of rows of transactions with their correct merchant group is extremely time consuming and costly, which is why...
Jul 19, 2021
“Transactional data is the Mount Everest of the alternative data world” Can it be climbed?
This year the dislocation of consumer spending due to Covid-19 has presented numerous technical challenges for users of transactional...
Oct 12, 2020
The cutting edge in data ethics
Ethics has been a top priority at Fable Data since day one. Handling consumer data, even anonymised and at an aggregate level, brings...
Mar 10, 2020
Finding the features: Same stores, eCommerce and key value items
Anonymised consumer transactions lack Personal Data but contain information that we can use to create detailed features to better...
Feb 10, 2020
Training never stops…
The most important task for our Data Science is to accurately determine merchants and stock market tickers
Jan 28, 2020
The Great Alternative Data Hack
We know the predictive power of alternative data as a leading indicator of stock price movement
Oct 4, 2019
Known unknowns
We’ve solved Rumsfeld’s known unknowns problem using address data
Aug 13, 2019
TV and takeaways
The primary application of our data is the low latency read we give on daily sales at hundreds of merchants across Europe. We provide...
Aug 4, 2019
MCC
The MCC is much more than a fancy dress club for the custodians of the Home of Cricket. Card issuers use a Merchant Category Code to...
Jul 25, 2019
The Synthetic Data Generation
Improving a model using synthetic training data Any form of training requires good examples of what is to be learnt, training a machine...
Jul 17, 2019
Merchant Location: Filling in the gaps
In our earlier blogs we’ve discussed creating a training data set and modelling to predict the merchant based on the transaction string....
Jul 4, 2019
Smells like Teem Spirits
Great modelling is dependent on a great data set to train a model on.
Jun 18, 2019
Anonymising Consumer Spend Data
The General Data Protection Regulation was approved in 2016, became law in 2018, and caused a headache for many organisations that did...
May 29, 2019
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