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AI-powered social media bots can increase user engagement on posts, but they fall short of encouraging users to post more overall.

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When a politician uses emotionality in social media to engage with his or her constituents, two things happen. One: the politician sees an increase in engagement with individual constituents and then at scale. Two: the politician may actually expand his or her following.

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A new peer-reviewed study found that direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising for prescription smoking-cessation drugs meaningfully reduces cigarette use, while advertising for over the counter (OTC) nicotine products does not. 

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INFORMS Awards Wagner Prize to Israel’s Yedioth Group

News Release, October 14, 2013

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®), the leading professional association for analytics professionals, today announced that the first place winner of the Daniel H. Wagner Prize judged by CPMS, the association’s practice section, is Yedioth Group, the Israeli media company, for analysis that reduced the cost of delivering print magazines at a time when the news industry is facing ever increasing competition from the Internet and social media.

Balinski Wins von Neumann Theory Prize

News Release, October 8, 2013

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®), the leading association for professionals in analytics, today announced that Michel Balinski of C.N.R.S. and the École Polytechnique/Paris Tech in France was named the 2013 recipient of the association’s John von Neumann Theory Prize.

Geoffrion Wins Presidents Award

News Release, October 8, 2013

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®), the leading association for professionals in analytics, today announced that Arthur Geoffrion, the James A. Collins Professor of Management Emeritus at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, was named the 2013 recipient of the INFORMS President’s Award.

INFORMS Narrows the Big Data Skills Gap

News Release, September 4, 2013

CATONSVILLE, MD – September 5, 2013– The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) – the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the fields of analytics, operations research (O.R.) and management science – announced today it will offer the analytics industry’s most advanced continuing education courses for elite analytics professionals, beginning in the fall of 2013.  

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