Davenport
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 concerned…
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 with…
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…
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, transportation,…
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…
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 areas…
Data scientists enjoy seeing the progress made in their profession. The field of cognitive computing, with its related technologies such as deep learning, will surely be the next big trend to watch in the coming years. See, for example, this article from…
Originally published by Tom Davenport at the Wall Street Journal blog. The press and blogosphere are full of references to “The Internet of Things” or even “The Internet of Everything.” It’s great to connect inanimate objects to the Internet, of course. But…