End of Year Reflection
For our last post of 2020, we wanted to share a more personal note with our readers to talk about how grateful for the resiliency and flexibility our team has shown during this challenging year.
Reversing the Curse: The 80 / 20 Split In AI Projects
Most AI projects spend 80% of time cleaning data and only 20% analyzing it. VIA has been investing heavily in using our own AI and software development skills to reverse this ratio.
Meet the Team: Natalie Winger, Data Specialist
Meet Natalie Winger, Data Specialist at VIA. Natalie talks about her experience joining VIA entirely remote and the funniest memory at VIA so far (spoiler: it includes a cat!).
Introducing SWEET: AI for Data Wrangling
SWEET stands for Smart Wrangling Engine for Extraction and Transformation. SWEET, a built-in function on VIA's TAC™ platform, uses AI to wrangle data.
Meet the Team: Ashley DaSilva, Team Leader, Product Development
Meet Ashley DaSilva, VIA's Team Leader, Product Development. Ashley talks about one of her passions outside of work and her favorite VIA memory (which happens to take place in the underground city of Montreal).
Need a laugh?
Hear all the funny remote moments from the team at VIA.
Meet the Team: Annvie Nguyen, UX Designer
Meet our fabulous UX Designer, Annvie Nguyen! Annvie talks about her proudest accomplishment at VIA and some of the shenanigans that take place at our holiday parties!
Working Remotely? Us too!
See what we look forward to each day!
Meet the Team: Emma Fechney, Senior Lead, People and Operations
Meet our Senior Lead, People and Operations, Emma Fechney! Emma talks about her greatest accomplishment at VIA so far and a potential side career for our team.
Meet the Team: John Muddle, Team Lead, Data Science
Meet John Muddle, VIA's Team Lead, Data Science. John walks us through a typical day for him at VIA and just how his favorite sandwich, the bacon butty, should be enjoyed!
Meet the Team: Antoine Dozois, Software Developer
For the launch of our Meet the Team blog series, we are interviewing Antoine Dozois, a software developer at VIA.
Thank you, 2019. Now, let’s do this 2020!
2019 was a milestone year for VIA: we launched GDAC™, spoke at events across the globe, and expanded the VIA community.
Understanding How EV Charging Behavior Affects Distribution Networks
At VIA, we are beginning to see that transformers are stressed by the switch to EVs. Our focus is finding ways to keep these assets healthy.
The Importance of Unit Testing
VIA’s Ashley DaSilva, Team Leader, Product Development, was invited to lead a workshop on unit testing for McGill’s Computer Science Graduate Society. Ashley discussed the critical importance of software testing, why developers should embrace unit testing, and when and how to use mocking.
So, You’ve Updated Your Privacy Policy
The energy industry as a whole is more data-dependent than ever before. But, how can utilities balance consumers’ rights to data privacy, security, and anonymity, while leveraging this wealth of new information to improve service reliability and efficiency? At VIA, we are enhancing our Trusted Analytics Chain (TAC) platform to address this challenge.
