Presented by David B. Hoffman, University of Alaska Anchorage - An important part of solving complex problems is creating visuals that precisely represent the problem, the resulting models and the solutions. How do you create these and what criteria should guide making effective visuals? This is...

Presented by Alex Cosmas, Booz Allen Hamilton As the data collected by businesses grow bigger and wider, so does the promise of developing streamlined insights through causal and predictive analytics. To that end, Bayesian Networks offer the promise of deriving actionable insights for organizati...

As the largest wholesale automotive auction company in the world, Manheim deal each year with more than 90,000 dealerships that can both sell and buy cars from the company's physical sales and online channels. In only 90 days, the analytics team designed, unified and centralized customer analytic...

Presented by Kathy Lange, SAS; Mark Hayward, Mayo Clinic; Chris Fry, Strategic Management Solutions; Mitchell Burman, Analytics Operations Engineering This session provides industry leaders from INFORMS Roundtable discussing real-world analytics issues, solutions, and best practices for runninga...

Presented by Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) men’s Division I college basketball tournament (more commonly known as MarchMadness) is an annual competition which draws widespread attention in the United States...

Presented by Stephen Chambal, The Perduco Group - Sports analytics is an exciting field with numerous opportunities for applying advanced analytics to develop unique and creative solutions for the industry. The Perduco Group has made a strategic push into the sports domain, leveraging analytical...

Presented by Scott Nestler, PhD, CAP, Chair, Analytics Certification Board - After a couple years in development, the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®) program launched at last year’s INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and O.R. in San Antonio. Since then, there have been a number of...

At the INFORMS analytics conference in Boston this spring, the lineup was stellar as analytics experts looked at major trends in the way that analytics professionals find their place at their organizations. Here was the lineup: - Moderator: Julia Kirby, Harvard Business Review - Accenture: Jeanne...