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Whatever your advertising needs, INFORMS has a way to help you. From advertising in our journals and magazines and sponsoring our meetings, to renting our mail and e-mail lists and everything in between, INFORMS allows you to reach more than 10,000 operations research professionals and more than 20,000 analytics professionals in ways that suit you best. Stop here for more information first and then contact the INFORMS staffer who can help you best.
Watch for your highly popular digital industry magazine. Scheduled topics for July/August include business forecasting, power of predictive modeling, and forecasting software survey. Click here to peruse the May/June issue. To advertise your services or employment openings in Analytics, contact Maria Bennett at maria.bennett@mail.informs.org or 770-431-0867, extension 219. Click here for a 2012 media planner.
Book your ad by July 16 to run in the issue scheduled for August 10. OR/MS Today averages 12,000 visitors a month with more than 8,000 page views to advertising pages. August is the annual back-to-school issue. Scheduled features include innovative education and breakthrough analytics programs. Click here for more advertising information or contact Maria Bennett at maria.bennett@mail.informs.org or 770-431-0867, extension 219.
Peruse these interesting articles: Bridging the gap between quantitative and qualitative information in text analytics; Scheduling for better healthcare; TNT Express Wins 'Super Bowl of O.R.'; O.R. and the National Science Foundation. Plus, see the large photo spread from INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research. Click here for current html issue. Log in to peruse digital version of your member magazine.
I thoroughly enjoyed the feedback I received on my podcast about pirates and operations research. I feel obligated to write a post about an actual paper in the latest Decision Analysis issue about pirates and operations research written by Juan Carlos Sevillano, David Rios Insua, and Jesus Rios. Here is the abstract... Read More.
MSc in OR qualifications? What is more useful: robust optimization or stochastic programming? How ready are businesses to exploit the full potential of O.R.? OR Exchange is your meeting place for questions and answers about O.R. and analytics. Create your own good karma here.
Various committees and subdivisions have coalesced around this definition: "Analytics - the scientific process of transforming data into insight for making better decisions." In last issue of eNews, we asked what you thought. You told us:
28%: I love it!
44%: I'm 80% OK but I would tweak it.
15%: I'm less than 50% OK and I would re-write extensively.
4%: I hate it.
9%: Why do we need an official definition of analytics?
Join your colleagues and weigh in on INFORMS' definition of analytics on OR Exchange.
Submit your abstract by July 15 for the second annual Innovation in Analytics Award. Sponsored by the Analytics Section of INFORMS, this new award recognizes creative and unique developments, applications, or combinations of analytics techniques used in practice. Semi-finalists and finalists will receive high-profile speaking opportunities at INFORMS two large conferences. Click here for more information.
Moderated by noted IT futurist Thornton May, a panel of experts explores the excitement, promise and challenge of big data. What's the real state of big data analytics today, both among the major players such as Google, eBay and LinkedIn as well as among startups in many industry areas? View video here.
October 12-13, 2012, Djerba Island, Tunisia
Since 1992, IFORS has organized a series of International Conferences on OR for Development (ICORD) approximately every three years. The 2012 Workshop is designed to follow from the ROAD Conference on October 11. Separate registration is required. For details go to http://www.informs.org/O.R.-Around-the-World and download the ICORD flyer from the Connect with People box.
