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Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste

The title of this post is a quote credited to Winston Churchill, although the attribution is questionable.   It conveys the notion that dramatic events generate new insights and create opportunities for growth.  Put another way, "look for the silver lining."…

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What’s Up With All These Derailments?

A friend of First Analytics, aware of our safety work in the railroad industry, asked, "so what do you think of all the train derailments?"  He had seen reports of three derailments just within the last few days.  With the…

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Analytics Arrives in the Trucking Industry

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…

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Simpson’s Paradox and Safety Analytics

We previously wrote about Goodhart's law and how it poses a challenge to analytics over a period of time in the sense that "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."  But that is not…

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