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Rewriting History: How AI Made Sense of Historical Data

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 Most customers complain about the amount of data their business collects. To gain a better understanding of the data, you need to wrap it all around a tighter framework and utilise data analytics consulting services . When working with a government agency, we came across a case where the agency was holding onto old documents that had historical importance and value. However, they didn't have the capacity to interpret the data. Sitting on a huge repository of historical data, the researchers were not able to identify patterns in the documents and make sense of the decisions that affected the laws of the day they were written. AI Used to Uncover History The challenge was also that the documents were written in different styles, subject matter and hand-writing styles. To extract the most out of the data, NovaWorks built custom handwriting recognition models that can analyse the old English terms and styles. These models were then translated to the language of today using data analyti