Data mining is the process of seeking valuable or interesting pieces of information from a large dataset that would otherwise be inaccessible. Extracting meaningful data provides insights and answers to problems we could not define before. Mahdi & Company has performed pattern detection, pattern prediction, and trend analysis across hundreds of thousands of news media and articles.

Data visualization is the artistic graphic representation of data — making it accessible, understandable, and distinguishable. Good visualization allows us to find trends and patterns quickly. We have worked on creative approaches that live in dashboards or are incorporated into digital stories that use different media to tell an engaging narrative.

Natural Language Processing lets us perform automatic entity recognition on large quantities of text. We have worked on NER across health care, legal, and journalism — training datasets and extracting named entities from millions of documents.

Asset Digitalization involves converting physical documents to digital images, extracting text using Optical Character Recognition, extracting named entities, and storing them in a retrieval system. At Mahdi & Company we have built this as a product called The Shoebox — tailored for tens of businesses.
