Could text analytics also do the work of economists? One financial services firm. Boston-based Business Intelligence Advisors (BIA), is using text mining to do just that. BIA provided the relatively commonplace service of filtering through corporate earnings calls to detect warning signs in executive behavior. BIA employees listened individually to those calls at first. But as the service became more popular, the only reasonable way to grow that service was to automate it. A variation of text mining was the best way to accomplish that automation.