Tom Davenport, First Analytics chairman and noted author and expert on analytics is releasing two books this month, September, 2022. Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration explores worker-AI collaboration in real world settings. By offering detailed, real-world case…
We will be presenting at the 2022 Community of Human and Organizational Learning 28th Annual Conference. Our session is entitled, “Predictive Analytics for Safety.” The conference will be held June 14-16, 2022 at Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, CO…
This is a re-post of an article originally by First Analytics Chairman Tom Davenport. More of Tom's articles can be found here. One of the key attributes of the lean startup approach popularized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries is…
With supply chain issues topping recent news, the railroad industry is under scrutiny for how well they operate their networks. As a follow-up to our previous post about railroad industry operating ratio, we here consider how analytics and machine learning…
We will be presenting at the 2021 UTA Oil & Gas Safety and Health Conference. Our session is entitled, “Add Predictive Analytics to Your Safety Management System.” The conference is a hybrid in-person and virtual event. It will be held…
Over four years ago we commented on "bewildering technology landscapes". Matt Turck from Firstmark Capital has produced these landscape charts for a number of years. And these can be "eye charts" in the sense that, visually, it's a myriad of logos packed…
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…
Perhaps the most common use of machine learning algorithms is to look for anomalies or unexpected events and send an alert to somebody who can act on it. See for example, this use of machine vision, which triggers real-time alerts to an…
Year-over-year comparisons can attribute too much of a volume decline to COVID-19. That is what we showed at the beginning of the pandemic, with predictive analytics applied to railroad car loadings data from the American Association of Railroads (AAR). The…
The railroads are a great indicator of the strength of the economy and nobody monitors rail traffic more than the American Association of Railroads (AAR). Their weekly rail traffic reports are watched closely, even when extreme stresses to the economy…