Starting in the late Fall of 2024, you may have seen the rise of the term "Agentic AI." This is validated by the Google Search Interest Index chart you see in this blog post. As we find ourselves in the…
Often, the insights gained from preparing data for analysis can rival or even exceed the insights generated by the models themselves. As data scientists and data engineers delve into cleaning, organizing, and transforming data, they uncover information that informs not…
Adopting artificial intelligence (AI) into your business can drive innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage. However, one of the crucial decisions you'll face is whether to build your AI solution in-house or buy a ready-made solution from a vendor. This "build…
This article was originaly posted at Forbes.com by First Analytics chairman and cofounder, Tom Davenport. XREA and First Analytics are partners, as announced here. ---- During the Information Age, many companies pulled together data from public and private sources and…
You won't want to miss a compelling demonstration of a predictive safety application, to be presented at the upcoming Utility Analytics Week in San Diego on October 19th. SoCalGas will present a coaching tool, based on machine learning, to support…
Tom Davenport, First Analytics chairman and noted author and expert on analytics is releasing two books this month, September, 2022. Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration explores worker-AI collaboration in real world settings. By offering detailed, real-world case…
There has never been a more challenging time for the trucking industry. From driver retention and recruiting, to safety, maintenance, and fuel savings, leading companies are now beginning to use a data analytics approach to improve their operations and financial…
It may be said that predictive maintenance is the poster child for the "analytics of things." Preventing down time and reducing maintenance costs has been a successful use of data science for a long time. But sometimes there is…
This post is a companion to our previous post, Beyond Data Science: Industrial Engineering. The notion in that article was that there is more to analytics than just data science, the specific case being industrial engineering. For a long time…
With the easing of the pandemic we are beginning to see increased employee turnover in what some are calling the "Turnover Tsunami" Indeed, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is beginning to show very early signs of a…