File this under the "Fun" category (or perhaps "sarcasm"). If you are not familiar with the Buzzword Bingo game, you can read about it here. The next time you sit through a vendor's pitch, or a speech from senior management, print…
First Analytics has become a member of the National Safety Council (NSC), a nonprofit organization with the mission to save lives by preventing injuries and deaths at work, in homes and communities, and on the road through leadership, research,…
Nearly all applications related to sensor and machine data aim to improve operational efficiency. For example in manufacturing plants, understanding what contributes to unscheduled downtime, and thus productivity, is a prevalent use case. Factors impacting quality and reducing scrap product…
Late last year we moved just down the street to a new, larger headquarters with updated offices, furnishings, and work spaces, including areas for the team to whiteboard our ideas. Our location on the Centennial Campus research park at North…
'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…