They call themselves a process safety company but there is more to Empirisys than just safety. Listen to industry veteran Pete Sueref talk about how data analytics and behavioral science can combine to help prevent the greatest man-made disasters of modern times. Wouldn't you like to know what really caused the challenger disaster?

Highlights

• [00:03:30] human factors or organizational factors ... are the root cause of pretty much every single huge catastrophe.
• [00:05:21] there's quite a harmful, safety artifact that you see in lots of buildings... we haven't had an accident here for a hundred days, and you update her every day and 101 days...
• [00:06:34] there's a whole movement in the industry around safety one versus safety two, where safety one is looking at fault and blame and safety two ... improving and taking ownership for safety in the organization.
• [00:13:00] as well as being a data science consultancy, we also have leadership and behaviors and culture consultants.
• [00:15:25] it's probably a dirty secret, the analytics world, generally the most, dashboards don't really get used that much.
• [00:20:00] There's this virtuous triangle... You can't have good reliability and good productivity without good safety.
• [00:28:40] advice I give to everyone that wants to be a data scientist is learn SQL before you do anything else, learn SQL.
• [00:33:22] This idea of the citizen data scientists become much more prevalent.