CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION (COR) is a registered Trademark of the Alberta Construction Safety Association) This is the second blog in a series on COR effectiveness. As we discussed in the first blog of this series, which you can find here, the study we did with the Saskatchewan Construction Safety Association (SCSA) sought to answer a…
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Does C.O.R. Help Reduce Injuries?
Artificial Intelligence is not a Magic Box
If you haven’t heard of Artificial Intelligence by now then you’ve been living under a rock. AI is everywhere and it’s touted as a solution to all humanity’s problems. However, despite the sexy term and AI’s household-name status, it’s still very much a science that requires deep expertise to use it correctly. One cannot simply…
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To COR, or not to COR…
CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION (COR) is a registered Trademark of the Alberta Construction Safety Association) If you read our blog from October of last year, you know that practical data science is our jam! We have done a lot of research and are very excited to share some of our results with you. Our goal is…
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Becoming a Practical Data Scientist
When I told my colleagues at the university that I was leaving to start a new career in the commercial sector, their first response was mostly shock and disbelief. In their defense, an academic leaving after five years of successful research and teaching is not something you see every day. It may not seem like…
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Infrastructure Stimulus Spending could Increase Injury Rates
As the debate over infrastructure spending and economic stimulus rages on, our focus has been on looking at the potential impact to injury rates that might result from an influx of cash in the construction sector. We’ll leave the economic debate to the economists and politicians but we’ll go on record supporting infrastructure spending. A…
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