Visit us at SAS Global Forum
We are a sponsor of SAS Global Forum once again this year. Please stop by and say hello. Our booth will be in the lower Quad, directly across from the Analytics demo stations.
Why Your Analytics of Things Aspirations Will Fail
Yes, everybody’s talking about analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). A recent Gartner hype cycle places the “Internet of Things” squarely at the top of the so-called “peak of inflated expectations.” Nearby, just a little down the slope on either side,…
Visualization: The Weather of My Life
First Analytics team member Matt Yancey shows some nifty visualizations of the weather of every day of his life: The Weather of My Life
Eight Data And Analytics Capabilities You’ll Need For The IoT
Originally published by Tom Davenport in Teradata Perspectives at Forbes.com There is widespread agreement that the Internet of Things will be a transformative factor in the business use of information. The prospect of billions of connected devices promises to transform home activities,…
Pax Analytica
One of the leaders of First Analytics, Tom Davenport, has written about how to organize analytics professionals within companies. For example, in “Five Ways to Organize Your Data Scientists” he comments on organizational variations ranging between a fully decentralized organization with…
When Will the Analytics of Things Grow Up?
Initially published by Tom Davenport on Data Informed. A few years ago, while working with DJ Patil (now the Chief Data Scientist of the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy) on an article about data scientists, he related to me a…
First Analytics Celebrates Union Pacific’s Safety Achievement
Union Pacific’s announcement this week of an all-time record low reportable injury rate, making it the safest Class 1 railroad in the United States, is a validation of a data-analytic approach to safety. First Analytics has worked with Union Pacific since 2011…
When data prep turns into p-hacking
One might assume that data generated by sensors and event recorders would be clean because after all, these are precise instruments, right? Alas, the analytics of things suffers from the age-old challenge of data quality. This screenshot from SAS Visual Analytics show that for…
Let’s not overlook the old analytical mainstays for opportunities
The hot field of analytics is rife with hype and its associated buzzwords, such as “big data” and “data science.” Some have pointed out that, while the world fixates on big data, there are opportunities to be had with the small data…
Cognitive technologies all set to transform business processes
Originally published by Tom Davenport at Deloitte University Press Some cognitive technology vendors and customers are moving past the “science project” phase and using artificial intelligence (AI) to transform business processes. Now is the time for businesses to consider the…