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…
In technology and business, Agile methodologies have become something of a gospel. They are hailed for their flexibility, responsiveness, and ability to foster continuous improvement. But in this congregation of Agile followers, there exists a group of nonconformists – the…
We have published the Railroad Greenhouse Gas Expert plugin for ChatGPT to OpenAI's ChatGPT store. This plugin is primarily built from papers, reports, and other materials produced by Wayne Kennedy, a long-time subject matter consultant to First Analytics, along with…
For the longest time, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies were limited mostly to mass marketing, unable to address consumers directly. That has changed, and with the emergence of Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), understanding and predicting consumer behavior is now more…
We are kicking off the new year with our updated website launch! And our New Year’s resolution is to continually keep it fresh and up to date. Our current website was put in place in late 2019. It had changed…
As a firm which focuses on moving beyond data science to optimization, we recognize that there is a distinction between what is mathematically optimal and what is business optimal. As we enter into what is predicted to be the busiest…