Data literacy, analytics, and AI without the hype

Data and AI

How to read your own data, what analytics can and cannot tell you, and where AI genuinely helps an operational organization.

In this track

4 pieces

Reading your own incident data

Response time distributions, why averages mislead, and the handful of measures that actually inform a deployment decision.

20 min read

Dashboards people actually open

Designing around a standing decision rather than around available fields.

12 min read

AI for the fire service: what it is good at

A working explanation of what these systems do, where they are reliable, and where confident output should not be trusted.

16 min read

AI governance and policy

Writing policy before deployment: accountability, records implications, and what you tell the public.

Premium22 min read

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This outline is public so it can be argued with before it is written. If something here is wrong, missing, or in the wrong order for how a department actually works, that is worth knowing now.

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