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ANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
Anxiety
over AI
Time to alleviate fears of
artificial intelligence
Analyze This!
Assignment experiment
pushes Vijay Mehrotra
out of his comfort zone
ALSO INSIDE:
· Edge IoT analytics
· Analytics at Kroger
· Self-service analytics
· Get to know your data
INSIDE STORY
Hot topics: AI & ML
Are there any hotter topics in the
analytics community today than artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning
(ML)? If so, please let me know.
Ironically, in 1991, when I began
editing OR/MS Today (the membership
magazine of INFORMS), AI and ML were
also hot topics. At the time, Lionheart
Publishing, which has produced OR/MS
Today for the past 30 years, also published
a newslett
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INSIDE STORY Hot topics: AI & ML Are there any
CPLEX Optimization Studio .
CONTENTS DRIVING BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS
Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Optimiza
16 62 DEPARTMENTS 2 Inside Story 8
Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Data and
A N A LY Z E T H I S ! Getting out of my comfort
through more complex problems, and to confront da
A N A LY Z E T H I S ! This is exactly what
• Network With Your Professional Peers and Those
HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS 2017: The year of ambiguiti
which would remove the individual pen- alty for n
HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS opened for innovations and
need to keep an eye on blockchain’s impact on hea
INFORMS INITIATIVES Essential skills, football,
Noonan combines a hands-on teaching and le
INFORMS INITIATIVES “For each individual at
The insight provided by the model leader i
INFORMS INITIATIVES new procedure for registeri
there was no statistically significant differen
NEWS & TRENDS Consultancy reports on AI, tech sp
benefit – AI augmentation – a combination of huma
NEWS & TRENDS activities that are currently per
and tech consulting, and systems inte
NEWS & TRENDS plans or abandon market-entry pl
over the next three years. Areas most affected wi
FORUM Anxiety over artificial intelligence No
Gartner predicts that by 2022, one in five workers
FORUM decisions through optimization creates a
ASSOCIATE CERTIFIED ANALYTICS PROFESSIONAL An
FORUM hasn’t been a single instance of GMO pois
about that, and explore all of the possi- bilitie
DATA GOVERNANCE The rise of self-service analy
Effectively integrating disparate data from diffe
S E L F - S E R V I C E A N A LY T I C S determ
for capitalizing on analyt- ics. Users can harnes
S E L F - S E R V I C E A N A LY T I C S easy “
when considering today’s increased regu- latory e
CORPORATE PROFILE Advanced analytics at Kroger
A 2013 finalist for the Edelman Prize, Kroger and
CORPORATE PROFILE shoulder, a small wink and th
front-end helped Kroger answer the question,
CORPORATE PROFILE an average of four minutes to
Kroger was able to measurably decrease average ch
CORPORATE PROFILE temperatures were then record
for a demonstration, we hear, “We had no idea you
EDGE COMPUTING A deep dive into Edge IoT A
The central portion of edge computing is the seam
EDGE COMPUTING edge. When low-latency results a
Figure 1: Edge computing architecture example. So
EDGE COMPUTING interfacing with modules that ru
In order to address these challenges, IBM
EDGE COMPUTING Figure 3:
SET SAIL FOR SUCCESS. EXHIBIT & SPONSOR
LEVERAGING DATA Know your data … and it
The industry has the data; where we fail is to le
LEVERAGING DATA same output because such insti
Figure 1: The process of transforming data into i
LEVERAGING DATA decide the costs considering th
ANALYTICS 2018 Baltimore, MD | April 15–17 The IN
CONFERENCE PREVIEW 2018 Business Analytics & O.R
successful analytical projects from inception thr
CONFERENCE PREVIEW meeting. The poster format i
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FIVE-MINUTE ANALYST Song of survival: the rock b
Given its many aging stars, rock and roll may no
FIVE-MINUTE ANALYST us; we can simply use th
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