Data Analytics

Finding Needles, Understanding Uncertainty and Building Puzzles

We use a variety of analysis tools to extract new information from large data sets.

Finding the Needle in the Haystack

Data captures from interconnected measuring devices can now generate unmanageable quantities of data each day. Somewhere in that data is information describing trends, faults or errors that could indicate impending failures or best operating practices. We can help find those indications in a timely manner so you can enable corrective actions that could prevent failures or improve efficiency.

Understanding Uncertainty to Increase Value

Every piece of data has some degree of uncertainty due to factors such as measurement error, discrete sampling of continuously changing processes and misinterpretation. We use probabilistic analysis methods to account for a variety of uncertainties. These analyses provide a statistics-based description of the process that can be used to make informed decisions.

Building Puzzles

Many data sets are an assembly of discrete pieces of information that describe a set of assets. This information is often gathered from different sources and is in various formats. There may be no consistent structure or meta-data that links one piece of information to a specific asset. We use statistical methods to analyze each record in the data set to determine what aspect of the asset it describes and which asset it applies to. This provides you with information to support operational decisions and enables performance tracking.

Various data analytics techniques are used in each of these scenarios including:

• Informed searches;
• Baysian analysis;
• Monte Carlo simulations;
• Internet of everything/big data; and
• Cloud computing.