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<br /> THIS ISSUE OF ANALYTICS IS SPONSORED BY<br /> HTTP://WWW.ANALYTICS-MAGAZINE.ORG<br /> DRIVING BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS MAY/JUNE 2015<br /> BROUGHT TO YOU BY:<br /> Preparing for the<br /> WAVE OF THE<br /> FUTURE<br /> · The coming flood of<br /> statistical malfeasance<br /> · Unified analytics:<br /> Mastering the data wave<br /> ALSO INSIDE:<br /> · Edelman Award & INFORMS Prize<br /> Best of the best analytics applications<br /> · HR analytics: a quiet revolution<br /> The advent of `people analytics' teams Executive Edge<br /> · Deciding the right career for you Anuj Kumar, V.P. at<br /> Fractal Analytics, on<br /> An analytical approach to a job search the problem of being<br /> `precisely inac<a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=1"> THIS ISSUE OF ANALYTICS IS SPONSORED BY</a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=2"> HTTP://WWW.ANALYTICS-MAGAZINE.ORG DRIVING </a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=3"> INSIDE STORY Catch the analytics wave Every f</a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=4"> </a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=5"> CONTENTS DRIVING BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS </a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=6"> ANALYTIC SOLVER PLATFORM Easy to Use, Industrial </a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=7"> 24 66 DEPARTMENTS 2 Inside Story 8 </a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=8"> ANALYTIC SOLVER PLATFORM From Solver to Full-Powe</a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=9"> EXECUTIVE EDGE Precisely inaccurate The art</a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=10"> ANALYTICS IN YOUR BROWSER Optimization, Simulatio</a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=11"> EXECUTIVE EDGE More often</a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=12"> portion of the market, and the quality of data ma</a> <a title="Analytics, May/June 2015 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ee0b3ec?page=13"> A N A LY Z E T H I S ! 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