A key part of our cash collection service involves document conversion from HTML templates to DOC, XLS or PDF. After years of usage, our current solution causes us conversion issues from time to time and we also started seeing limitations such as difficulty of integrating it into new APIs. At…

The problem — Do you trust your data? By Victor Bouvier, Data Scientist at Sidetrade Before deploying a machine learning (ML) model into a product, we need to evaluate its performance. A well-adopted practice is to split the data into a train set (data used for training the model) and…

By Christelle Dhrif, Chief Communications Officer at Sidetrade. Birmingham Tech Week became the largest regional technology festival in the UK after its hugely successful inaugural event last year. It attracted more than 5,000 attendees to seminars and workshops held across the city. Birmingham now has around 6,000 tech companies that…

By James Vickery, Jamie Hennerley and Yassine Fastani A hackathon aims to produce exciting and valuable projects while providing an opportunity for teams from different countries to build new work relationships. After eleven hackathons, which typically consisted of our entire R&D flying out to Paris, our twelfth was a challenge…

R&D Superheroes By Luke Hennerley, Lead Application Engineer at Sidetrade Covid-19 forced many businesses to re-evaluate and understand how they can emerge in a position of strength in a post-pandemic world. As lockdowns forced cinemas to close across the globe, we all faced a summer without superheroes. …

Our open-sourced frontend stack and the story behind it By Clément Déon, Frontend Architect, and Luke Hennerley, Lead Application Engineer at Sidetrade The essentials Need a solid React stack for your next enterprise-sized application? We’ve setup everything you need to get started into a Github repo available here: sidetrade-labs/react-redux-typescript Modern 2020 stack for a React app built with redux and typescript (and other things) …github.com

by Dr Clément Chastagnol, Head of Data Science, Sidetrade On 3 November 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt was triumphantly elected President of the United States, with over 60% of the votes, much to the embarrassment of Literary Digest, a leading magazine, which had predicted a landslide victory for his Republican opponent…

50 applications, burritos, and five new Code Academy Graduates By Luke Hennerley, Lead Application Manager at Sidetrade and Mark Sheldon, CTO at Sidetrade. Coding bootcamps in the UK are a good thing, but they’re not perfect. I’ve always believed — as someone who’s been an apprentice with Microsoft, and spent…

By Clément Chastagnol, Head of Data Science, Loïc Petit, Senior Data Engineer, and Jie Lu, Data Scientist at Sidetrade. Are you a user of Facebook’s multi-lingual aligned word embeddings MUSE? …