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What’s Up With All These Derailments?

A friend of First Analytics, aware of our safety work in the railroad industry, asked, "so what do you think of all the train derailments?"  He had seen reports of three derailments just within the last few days.  With the…

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Simpson’s Paradox and Safety Analytics

We previously wrote about Goodhart's law and how it poses a challenge to analytics over a period of time in the sense that "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."  But that is not…

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Before Data Science: Statistics

This post is a companion to our previous post, Beyond Data Science: Industrial Engineering.  The notion in that article was that there is more to analytics than just data science, the specific case being industrial engineering. For a long time…

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We Need People Analytics Now More Than Ever

  With the easing of the pandemic we are beginning to see increased employee turnover in what some are calling the "Turnover Tsunami"  Indeed, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is beginning to show very early signs of a…

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