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· 2015: Predictions for predictive analytics<br />
· Small analytics company takes on Ebola<br />
· Case study: Why cloud analytics works<br />
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Bill Gossman, head<br />
of ASA Corp., on<br />
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changer for using<br />
data analytics<br />
INSIDE STORY<br />
Prediction: Big year for analytics<br />
Happy New Year! ’Tis the season to be<br />
making predictions about what the future<br />
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dictive analytics who contributed their in-<br />
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<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=2"> INSIDE STORY Prediction: Big year for analytics</a>
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<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=5"> ANALYTICS IN YOUR BROWSER Optimization and Simula</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=6"> 66 70 DEPARTMENTS 2 Inside Story 8 </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=7"> AnAlytic Solver PlAtform easy to Use, industrial </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=8"> A N A LY Z E T H I S ! Thoughts on collabo</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=9"> AnAlytic Solver PlAtform from Solver to full-Powe</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=10"> A N A LY Z E T H I S ! costs but also without a</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=11"> active and innovative data scientist with a lot o</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=12"> A N A LY Z E T H I S ! The second of these p</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=13"> CPLEX Optimization Studio . </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=14"> WHAT'S TRENDING Top 5 analytics predictions f</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=15"> 2015 more we play in the same sandbox,</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=16"> WHAT'S TRENDING more recently at Sony Pictures,</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=17"> five MoRe pRedictions foR 2015 Dr. Andrew Jen</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=18"> HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS What to expect in 2015 </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=19"> interoperability roadmap, ONC described one of it</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=20"> HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS Gaining market share ha</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=21"> companies. They are also busy trying to find new </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=22"> VIEWPOINT Cloud analytics works for me </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=23"> other analysts in different organizations. While </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=24"> VIEWPOINT 3. The grey box approach all</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=25"> CONCLUSION Cloud-based analytics or cloud an</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=26"> FORUM CAP: How to become a modern-day analyti</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=27"> to travel to other towns to practice their craft,</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=28"> FORUM are earning an advanced degree, and 51 pe</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=29"> but early career professionals may find the diffe</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=30"> INFORMS INITIATIVES Edelman Award, continui</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=31"> • LMI/Defense Logistics Agency for “Peak and N</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=32"> INFORMS INITIATIVES and visualizing data. This </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=33"> C M Y CM MY CY CMY K USD_Online MBA BA Analytics</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=34"> NEWSMAKERS Lumina, Chevron earn DA honors </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=35"> of their productive life. Some are up to 1,200 fe</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=36"> NEWSMAKERS “By clearly identifying the issu</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=37"> and Professor Ronald Howard of Stan- ford Univers</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=38"> EXECUTIVE EDGE Leadership: The real gam</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=39"> THE ANALYTICS QUANDARY FOR LEADERS An anal</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=40"> EXECUTIVE EDGE Even limited analysis of min</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=41"> the size of the company. Larger corpora- tions ge</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=42"> EXECUTIVE EDGE Leaders who take a stra</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=43"> Catch the Wave: Real-World Analytics Solutions I</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=44"> DATA VISUALIZATION The future of data visualiza</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=45"> figure 1: Billion Dollar O’Gram. Edward Tufte, “</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=46"> DATA VISUALIZATION in Figure 2 and Figure 3, co</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=47"> figure 4: Global spread of infectious diseases. </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=48"> DATA VISUALIZATION </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=49"> the internet of things Tens of billions of</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=50"> DATA VISUALIZATION figure 6: The 5</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=51"> figure 7: Microsoft’s Holograph, an interactive 3</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=52"> DATA VISUALIZATION Data visualization: The</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=53"> figure 1: Natural log of relative operating speed</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=54"> DATA VISUALIZATION Realizing how quickly we </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=55"> Analytics is a prime example – collecting and mai</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=56"> DATA VISUALIZATION figure 2: A d</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 57" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=57"> increasingly sophisticated, they’ll be able to he</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 58" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=58"> DATA VISUALIZATION involved. Mapping techniques</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 59" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=59"> Is the largest association for analytics in the c</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 60" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=60"> ANALYTICS IN ACTION How analytics helps contai</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 61" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=61"> science and analytics to the problem. They were n</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 62" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=62"> TRACKING EBOLA The scenario created c</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 63" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=63"> figure 1: Illustration of the LUX user interface.</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 64" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=64"> TRACKING EBOLA • The user then instructs t</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=65"> $ INFORMS third conference on the health sector </a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 66" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=66"> CONFERENCE PREVIEW Business Analytics and O.</a>
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<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 69" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=69"> Are you spending significant resources collecti</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 70" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=70"> FIVE-MINUTE ANALYST The</a>
<a title="Analytics, January/February 2015 page 71" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/79b53367?page=71"> X X X X X X X </a>
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