Companies in all industries have strived in the twenty-first century to improve safety. And it has worked. Incident rates have been on a continual decline since 2003, as shown by data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (see figure)…
We invite you to attend a webinar we are participating in, sponsored by the Community of Human and Organizational Learning. Here is the event description: With all of the publicity and hype surrounding Generative AI, it is easy to be…
We announce the publication of the Harvard Business Review digital paper, "GenAI Can Help Companies Do More with Customer Feedback," co-authored by First Analytics co-founders Tom Davenport and Mike Thompson, along with Jim Sterne. This research offers deep insights into…
In prior posts, we have attached various laws, paradoxes, and fallacies to work in data science and machine learning. See for example, Simpson's Paradox, The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy, Goodhart's Law, and Benford's Law. In this post we consider the True…
Thanks to our partnership with Gurobi, we are participating in OSDC East. Our talk, entitled "Unlocking Hidden Value: Data Science + Optimization" follows a theme we have discussed previously. Many business opportunities do not end with data science. In many…
We are happy to announce our participation in the North American Meat Institute's Environment, Labor and Safety+ conference. The event will be held April 16-17, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference brings together professionals at all levels of the…
AI chatbots are becoming widespread in areas such customer service, marketing, and operational matters. With a variety of open and free-to-use large language models (LLMs) available, the most prominent being Open AI's ChatGPT, employees have turned to these AI assistants…
Do your eyes roll when you hear the term "AI" thrown out indiscriminately? Do you bring your AI Buzzword Bingo card to meetings, especially vendor sales pitches? Then we have something for you! We have placed in our library a…
Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) professionals continually strive to create workplaces that are not just compliant but fundamentally safe. Most are familiar with the so-called Heinrich/Byrd Safety Pyramid, commonly referred to as the “Safety Triangle". But in this post we…
In 2022 we announced our participation with GBADs - the Global Burden of Animal Diseases Program. In collaboration with GBADs, the World Organisation for Animal Health, the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture, and the International Livestock Research Institute, we have updated our…