AI-powered Learning and Development platform
K.A.T.E.® provides Data Science and Software Development training, assessment and recruitment solutions for forward-thinking companies around the world.
Struggling to assess Data Science candidates at scale?
Wondering how to attract fresh talent to build job-ready internal Data Science capacity?
Frustrated with artificial toy coding problems and challenges?
K.A.T.E.® ( or Knowledge Assessment Teaching Engine ) is a SaaS proprietary system for Data Science training and assessment. It is developed by Cambridge Spark and is supported by the UK’s government innovation agency. K.A.T.E.® integrates research in source code analysis, compilers and recommender systems. K.A.T.E.®‘s purpose is to provide highly personalised code feedback and diagnostics to learners within an industry simulated environment.
Many organisations have adopted K.A.T.E.® to build internal Data Science capability and close technical skill gaps at scale, complete with a customisable talent management and assessment dashboard, K.A.T.E. Analytics, designed to optimise your talent development processes. K.A.T.E.® supports Python, SQL and Spark.
K.A.T.E. helped significantly to make our option pricing competition using Python a big success
Dr. Heiko Schäfer, Quantitative Developer, IMC Trading
The K.A.T.E. environment provides progressive exercises with immediate feedback and scoring. Our experience is this really helps the participants to stay motivated and focussed.
Dr. Stephen Simmons, Athena Research, JPMorgan
Production Ready
K.A.T.E.® promotes unit testing and compliance to coding standards by integrating Pep8, Pylint and Cyclomatic Complexity.
Git-powered
You submit code to K.A.T.E.® using GIT. This means K.A.T.E.® exploits version control and you receive feedback via continuous integration. This allows you to use your own toolchain and editors such as a notebook, pycharm or vscode as well enable team collaboration.
Instant Feedback
You never have to wait to receive feedback on your code and projects. K.A.T.E.®provides immediate feedback on how you are performing. You can submit as many times as you want.
Personalised Recommendations
K.A.T.E.® learns about you and gives you reading recommendations so you can continuously learn.
Adaptive Learning
K.A.T.E.® learns your strength and areas of improvements every time you submit code. This way K.A.T.E.® can offer you a personalised set of exercises to help you bridge the gaps quicker and more effectively.
Metrics
K.A.T.E.® reports relevant metrics and diagnostics so you can effectively benchmark your code. These include software metrics such as PEP8, Pylint, Cyclomatic Complexity, Unit Tests and Machine learning metrics such as accuracy, F1 score, MSE and confusion matrix.
K.A.T.E.® provides structured, expert-led data science and coding projects, enabling you to upskill, reskill and onboard team members quickly and effectively.
Become more efficient and productive by eliminating time spent on technical assessment and marking. K.A.T.E.® automatically evaluates each individual’s capabilities aligned with industry software development practices and Machine Learning methodologies.
K.A.T.E.® allows you to make quicker, more informed hiring decisions. Leveraging AI technology, K.A.T.E.® provides an adaptive assessment platform to optimise your recruiting process and helps you to find and retain the best talent.
