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Analytics<br />
Driving Better Business Decisions<br />
September/October 2012<br />
Retail Science<br />
Driving profitability with analytics<br />
Also Inside<br />
• Analytics predicts presidential election<br />
• Leveraging Big Data around customers<br />
• Certified Analytics Professional program<br />
Executive Edge<br />
eBay VP Bob Page<br />
on the future of<br />
data and analyticsINSIDE STORY<br />
‘Mudders’ uncover treasure<br />
In the July/August issue of Analytics, John Toczek, author of the “Thinking Analytically” column in this publication and the “PuzzlOR” column for OR/MS Today, proposed a contest to, as he described it, “put your analytical skills to the ultimate test.” The contest, “The 2012 Analytics Treasure Hunt,” consisted of five puzzles that focused on common problems encountered in the mathematics, statistics and operations research fields. <br />
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<a title="Analytics, September/October 2012 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/577682e8?page=4">Departments Inside Story Executive Edge P</a>
<a title="Analytics, September/October 2012 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/577682e8?page=5">EXECUTIVE EDGE The future of data and analytic</a>
<a title="Analytics, September/October 2012 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/577682e8?page=6">EXECUTIVE EDGE – lower costs, faster time to i</a>
<a title="Analytics, September/October 2012 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/577682e8?page=7">PROFIT CENTER Feeling the power By E. Andrew </a>
<a title="Analytics, September/October 2012 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/577682e8?page=8">Analyze This! Colleagues, columns and catching </a>
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<a title="Analytics, September/October 2012 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/577682e8?page=10">Consumer Insight Driving profitability with reta</a>
<a title="Analytics, September/October 2012 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/577682e8?page=11">Retail Analytics The retailer, however, is stil</a>
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<a title="Analytics, September/October 2012 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/577682e8?page=13">Retail Analytics Propensity models enable retai</a>
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<a title="Analytics, September/October 2012 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/577682e8?page=15">MARKETING: DATA IS DIVINE Leveraging Big Data</a>
<a title="Analytics, September/October 2012 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/577682e8?page=16">LEVERAGING BIG DATA make decisions and strategi</a>
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<a title="Analytics, September/October 2012 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/577682e8?page=22">DECISION-MAKING Taming the data tidal wave AHP</a>
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