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Analytics<br />
Driving Better Business Decisions<br />
July/August 2012<br />
Brought to you by INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences<br />
Competitive Crowdsourcing<br />
Analytics as sport: a win-win for contestants and corporations<br />
Also:<br />
• The Future of Forecasting<br />
Intersection of analytics and insight, plus survey of software packages<br />
• Analytics & Big Data<br />
Skeptics vs. enthusiasts: Battle for hearts and minds of decision-makers<br />
• Analytics at IBM<br />
Technology, consulting giant’s long, rich history with advanced analytics<br />
Executive Edge<br />
Aryng CEO <br />
Piyanka Jain <br />
on what predictive <br />
analytics ‘is not’Inside Story<br />
The sport of data science<br />
How many analysts does it take to solve a problem?<br />
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