'Tis the season of the mileage run. Some frequent fliers find themselves just short of qualifying for a particular elite status tier in an airline loyalty program for next year. In order to secure status, some will book cost-effective flights…
For analytics professionals there was a time where model building decisions were nearly entirely related to methodology and algorithm selection. These decisions also informed the choice of software to use. Today, the availability of algorithms and software has exploded, making…
The applications of IoT data are many, as you can see here. The most touted application is predictive maintenance: foretelling when an asset such as a machine or component might encounter a fault, or fail outright. Sometimes we are not…
First Analytics was a sponsor of the recent Analytics Experience conference, hosted by SAS. Some of our activities there are described in this news post. Our chairman, Tom Davenport, recently published a ten-year update to the book that is credited…
You've heard of the four Ps of marketing. How about the four Ps of safety? The first three are the targets we focus on to foster safety: people; places; and processes. The last, predictive analytics, is a data-driven way to…
It has been ten years since Tom Davenport, one of the leaders of First Analytics, along with Jeanne Harris, published the seminal book, Competing on Analytics. It is credited for initiating the serious adoption of analytics by businesses. Tom says…
The sharing of techniques and methodologies across industries can produce advances in successful applications, not only for the practice of analytics as a whole, but for individual firms. Practitioners in the areas of marketing and supply chain analytics, for example,…
This is the time of year when many people are taking vacations. Be careful! Did you know that some workplace safety incidents can be tied to employees returning to work from their vacation? Well, this is true at times, but…
For the first time, First Analytics will be participating in the National Safety Council Expo, to be held in Indianapolis, September 25-27. With companies now collecting volumes of safety-related data, the time is ripe to apply advanced analytics to help…
First Analytics is a sponsor and active participant in the upcoming SAS Analytics Experience 2017. Please stop by our booth in the innovation hub to say "hello'. Additionally we invite you to attend some sessions that we will be involved…