First Analytics will be co-presenting at the upcoming WRI 2025 Heavy Haul Conference, to be held June 11–12 in Kansas City, Missouri. The conference, hosted by Wheel-Rail Seminars, focuses on topics related to wheel and rail system performance in railroad…
We issued this press release today, May 13, 2025. CARY, NC, May 13, 2025: First Analytics, a leader in applying advanced analytic and AI solutions is pleased to announce a new company: Sentient Safety. Sentient Safety is focused on helping…
We are have been invited by Gurobi to conduct a virtual training session at Gurobi Days Digital, May 6-7, 2025. You can view the two-day event agenda and register for free at this page. Though the audience will largely be…
We are pleased to announce that First Analytics will be participating in the Foresight Practitioner’s Conference 2025, hosted by the Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. This year’s event will take place on March 3-4, 2025, at the University…
We recently learned of the passing of John D.C. Little, whose foundational work in operations research and decision science set the stage for how organizations harness data for strategic decision-making. His extraordinary legacy dating back to the 1950s includes a…
First Analytics announces the appointment of Rob Stevens and Todd Gustafson, Ph.D., as Managing Partners, strengthening the company's leadership in advanced analytics and AI consulting. Rob and Todd each bring 30+ years of experience consulting to fortune 500 firms globally…
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…
The Journal of Business Forecasting recently published an article by First Analytics’ titled “The Promise of Generative AI in Forecast Value Added Analysis.” The article explores the potential of integrating generative AI, specifically large language models (LLMs), into Forecast Value…
In the fourth quarter of 2024 First Analytics, contributed to a number of events and publications. In the spirit of sharing insights with industry professionals and practitioners, we point to some of them here. Forecasting We published an article in…
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…