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First Analytics Partners with XREA

First Analytics is announcing its analytics development partnership with XREA. XREA is a market analysis software platform that helps real estate developers determine what and where to build. The real estate industry needs to quicken the adoption of technology and advanced analytics…

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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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First Analytics Joins the Gurobi Alliance

First Analytics recently joined the Gurobi Alliance as a service partner.  Gurobi produces the world’s fastest and most powerful mathematical optimization solver – the  Gurobi Optimizer – which is used by leading global companies across more than 40 different industries…

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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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Don’t be a Texas Sharpshooter

We have previously discussed interesting phenomenon in analytics which, if not carefully considered or understood, can lead to unexpected or incorrect conclusions.  See, for example, Simpson's Paradox and Goodhart's law.  And then there is "data-dredging" of which so-called P-hacking is…

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