Informs Magazine Nov/Dec 2019

Informs Magazine:  Nov/Dec 2019  

Featured articles:

Unchaining data scientists to make DataOps work
The three biggest trends in AI and ML right now
Survey: Scaling technology innovation can double revenue growth
Recounting 2019 Analytics Society Accomplishments
Preparing your data for analytics
New research could significantly reduce flight delays
Navigating the ‘office’ politics of analytics
CEOs say artificial intelligence tops disruptive technology
Beyond Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining
Aviation Safety: ‘Everything looks a little different’ after 737 Max
Applications for 2020 IAAA extended to December 2
2020 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics

(Much more at the link)

July/August 2018 Analytics Magazine

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Latest Informs Analytics Magazine  July/August 2018
Supply Chain and Manufacturing: When Optimization Models Fail, how to avoid Chaos ... "

Analytics Magazine

Also, see more about Informs:  https://www.informs.org/

 Analytics Magazine: Sneak Preview

The upcoming July/August issue of Analytics magazine takes a look at an eclectic list of topics, from AI and the path to the intelligent enterprise to bridging the data science gap to an analysis of public television’s deadliest cities based on four popular British murder mystery series. Warning: don’t go near “Grantchester.”

Meanwhile, the May/June issue of Analytics magazine also has something for everyone, from features on how software analytics enables real-time customer personalization and how to turbocharge analytics projects to smart automation and why data science projects fail. The issue also includes a profile of Chevron and its operations research and advanced analytics team, as well as a look at data privacy in the wake of the Facebook debacle and the role blockchain may play in solving the problem going forward.    ... "

May/June 2018 Issue of Analytics Magazine

The May/June 2018 issue of Analytics magazine features articles ranging from the direction of AI, turbocharging analytics adoption, analytics in marketing strategies, O.R. and advanced analytics at Chevron, and more ....

Lead Story

The Direction of Smart Automation
What humanity optimized by artificial intelligence might look like.
By Joseph Byrum

Features

Turbocharging Analytics Project Adoption
Three critical mindsets – business case, entrepreneur’s and adoption – close the gap between big data investment and production.
By Shashank Dubey

Real-Time Customer Personalization
How software analytics enables real-time customer personalization.
By Keith Fenech

Three Reasons to Adopt ‘People Analytics’
The path to better, quicker HR decisions includes flexibility and reliability, integration and self-service analytics.
By Sat Sindhar

O.R. & Advanced Analytics at Chevron
From solving conventional problems to solving common problems unconventionally, Chevron applies data science across the enterprise.   
By Shira Hetz and Margery H. Connor, CAP .... "

November-December Analytics Magazine

From the Informs Organization:

Analytics Magazine: Sneak Preview

The November/December issue of Analytics magazine takes a close look at a wide range of topics, including predictive analytics in the public sector, survey sampling, sales analysis, healthcare analytics and how automated analytics help detect significant business incidents. ... " 

Output Visualization for Analytics

Good practical piece out of the latest  Informs Analytics Magazine.   They still prefer to call it analytics rather than data science.    And its always been 'Machine Learning', though not called that. You have always learned from your data via machines, software and data

Output visualization of machine learning analysis
By Navneet Kesher

Data science is more than just building machine learning models; it’s also about explaining the models and using them to drive data-driven decisions. In the journey from analysis to data-driven outcomes, data visualization plays a very important role of presenting data in a powerful and credible way.  .... " 

Analytics Magazine

The latest analytics Magazine from Informs.    A practically oriented view of how analytics can be used in business today.   Industry News and Articles.

January-February 2017 Analytics Magazine

Informs January-February 2017 Analytics Magazine
An issue with emphasis on the IoT and its evolution.  Such as on related business opportunities.

September/October 2016 Analytics Magazine

The cover story of the September/October issue of Analytics magazine focuses on the threat to Cybersecurity and using better metrics and measurement to address the growing risks. You can also read about making effective decisions in real time, the truth about unstructured data, healthcare analytics, Monte Carlo for the masses, and much more. 

Lead Story
Reducing Cybersecurity Risk 
Better metrics and measurement are the keys to addressing a growing threat.   By Douglas A. Samuelson

Features
There's No Such Thing as Unstructured Data
How to get around the elephant in the room: Four keys to giving structure to unstructured data initiatives.    By Chuck Densinger and Mark Gonzales

Making Effective Decisions in Real Time
Situational intelligence brings together analytics, data visualization and IoT for a 360-degree operational view.   By Ron Stein

Smart Cities: A World of Opportunity in Data
Amsterdam example: Real-time data enables efforts to reduce traffic, pollution, energy usage and crime.   By Frank Harmsen

Healthcare Analytics in Action
Best practices: An operations-driven approach to building an action-oriented analytics framework.
By Shaillee Chopra and Daniel J. Marino

Monte Carlo for the Masses
Free tools from ProbabilityManagement.org automate the data table process for Excel users everywhere.   By Sam Savage

May-June 2016 Issue of Analytics Magazine

Informs May/June issue of Analytics Magazine focuses on getting the most out of big data & analytics with both mankind and machines.

Lead Story

Fulfilling the Promise of Analytics 
Strategy, leadership and consumption: The keys to getting the most from big data and analytics focus on the human element.
By Chris Mazzei

Among the articles: 

How to Get the Most Out of Data Lakes
A handful of requisite business skills that facilitate self-service analytics at unparalleled speed.
By Sean Martin

Making Wise Decisions with the IoT
Consumer fantasy comes true with the Internet of Things, but are organizations ready for even bigger, wider, deeper data?
By Tayfun Keskin and Haluk Demirkan

Cloud-Supported Machine Learning Services
Exploring and comparing the potential of big data analytics on selected cloud providers’ platforms.
By Lakshmi D. Baskar, Neil Lobo, Praveen Ananth and Palaniappa Krishnan

Corporate Profile: Steelcase Inc.
Advanced analytics team helps global company unlock human promise by creating great work experiences.
By Tim Merkle

Analytics Magazine: Analytics in the Cloud

The cover story of the March/April issue of Analytics magazine focuses on predictive analytics in the cloud and how every business is now a data business, whether they know it or not. You can also read about the "power company" of the Internet age, myths involved in cloud security, and the democratizing of software trends.

Lead Story

Predictive Analytics in the Cloud: It's All About the Data
Exploiting the natural synergy between the cloud and analytics in the Internet Age.
By Dave Hirko

Democratization of Analytics: New Frontier
Making data available to the people who need it and giving them the skills and tools to derive meaningful insights from it.
By Srujana H.M., Sanjay S. Sharma and Amitava Dey 

How Would Google Farm?
Lessons from self-driving cars may help win the race to feed the world via the Internet of Agriculture and analytics.
By Alex Thomasson, Gabe Santos and Atanu Basu

How to Turn Organizational Data into Corporate Strength
Understanding and analyzing the organization as a system sets the platform for value-adding analysis and company success.
By Rupert Morrison

Training Strategy in the Analytics Consulting Domain
An alternative training approach that benefits trainers and trainees equally during the teaching/mentoring process.
By Chandrakant Maheshwari

Higher Expectations Drive Transformation 
Increasing market demands and high expectations drive transformation and innovation in dynamic industry.
By Randolph Hall and Janice Partyka

January February Analytics Magazine

" ... The cover story of the January/February issue of Analytics focuses on the relatively new management method of big data, it is all about what’s driving all the excitement concerning data lakes. But dive and swim at your own risk. You can also read about investments in the human element of analytics, leveraging predictive analytics, and the power of smart technologies. .... 

Analytics Magazine Digital Copy
Features

Deep Dive into Data Lakes
The premise, the promise, the potential of a new method for managing big data.
By Sean Martin

Get Smart: Digital Business Innovation
Smart technologies, services, processes and people add up to smart systems for every sector.
By Haluk Demirkan and Bulent Dal

Customer Lifetime Value
Leveraging predictive analytics adds key new insights for estimating familiar marketing metric.
By Matthew Lulay

Corporate Profile: BNSF Railway
Operations research and advanced analytics team helps power rail giant’s success now and in the future.
By Amy Casas

Changing the Game
How analytics and village stability operations can help defeat violent extremism around the world.
By Doug Samuelson  ..... " 

November December Analytics Magazine on Real Time

November/December Analytics Magazine is now Online

From real-time analytics to data reduction to the ongoing debate over whether humans make better decisions than machines, the November/December issue of Analytics Magazine, now online, has something for everyone ... 
  
Cover Story: 
The Reality of Real Time
by Larry Skowronek
Marketing and customer interaction: Four important areas where real-time analytics can provide real value.

Analytics Magazine, September 2015

Analytics Magazine September/October 2015  by Informs.

Advances in customer intelligence, including cognitive computing for automating customer knowledge and real-time business intelligence as the impetus behind customer intelligence, highlight the September/October issue of Analytics Magazine now online. The issue also includes articles covering modernizing data structure, healthcare analytics, and newspaper analytics.

Cover Story

The Keys to Customer Intelligence
by Swaroop Johnson
Replacing data silos with "datamarts" and the impetus behind real-time business intelligence.

Cognitive Computing, Customer Knowledge  
by Guy Mounier 
How to automatically provide a clear means to make the most of your company's proprietary data.

The Magic of Managed Autonomy 
by Vinod Cheriyan
Online lender builds successful analytics team by balancing talent engagement, business priorities.

Global Business Collaboration 
by Rasesh Shah and Aliasgar Rajkotwala
The ideal infrastructure relies on the three best practice pillars: security, freedom, and mobility.

Predictive Analytics in Publishing 
by Arvid Tchivzhel
Transformation of traditional print media and the growing intelligence behind monetization strategies.
   

Analytics Magazine Addresses Human Curiosity in AI

Analytics Magazine, Jul-Aug 2015

Building Human Curiosity into A.I.
by Scott Zoldi
Self-learning models: How neuro-dynamic programming enables smart machines to think ahead.

Predicting Patient Experience  
by Sagar Anisingaraju and Mo Kaushal
Why narrative data is a healthcare goldmine: Four reasons to feel confident about the "consumerization" wave.

Curing What Ails the Healthcare Industry
by Charlie Bitzis
Interaction analytics is transforming health insurance: Four key areas where analytics is driving change.

Network Analytics for Everyone
by Will Towler
From social media to healthcare, more and more fields are turning to network science for greater insight.

Networks vs. Fraud: Connecting the Dots
by Bart Baesens, Véronique Van Vlasselaer and Wouter Verbeke
Well-constructed analytical models useful in thwarting fraudsters and their complex but revealing patterns.

May - June 2015 Analytics Magazine

A Publication of Informs: 
Analytics malfeasance, unified analytics and human resource analytics are some of the many topics explored in the current May/June issue of Analytics magazine. The issue also offers an analytical approach to answering the question, “Is a career in analytics right for you?” Meanwhile, regular columnists Vijay Mehrotra, Rajib Ghosh and Harrison Schramm give their unique perspectives on workforce management, healthcare analytics and herd immunity, respectively .... 

Analytics Magazine features Internet of Things

The March/April issue of Analytics Magazine features 
articles on a wide range of topics, including: intuitive analytics, the Internet of things, healthcare analytics, and a survey of statistical analysis software.  From Informs, the premier organization for analytical method.
  
Cover Story

Analytics & The Internet of Things
by Arnab Chakraborty, Michael Svilar,  and Prith Banerjee  
Welcome to the 'We Economy' digital ecosystem:  Finding the business hidden in your data.

Executive Edge: Interaction Analytics 
by Ryan Pellet 
Form from chaos: Gaining insights from interaction-based unstructured data (calls, texts, posts, etc.).

Forum: Intuition-Based Decision Making by Jay Liebowitz
The other side of analytics: The value of unconsciously recognizing patterns at lightning speed.

Statistical Software Survey by James J. Swain
Power to the people: Survey of popular analytical software includes a wide range of tools.

Corporate Profile: SAS by Kathy Lange
World's largest privately held software company: Where it's been and where it's headed.  ........

February Analytics Mag Emphasis on Data Visualization

February 2015 Informs monthly on analytics, the leading professional organization for analytics practice.  The most practical and largely non technical periodical I receive on the topic. Examples, hints and value examples.  In this issue, on  sports, marketing and Example:

‘Clumpiness’ more profitable than traditional marketing segments
Marketing managers traditionally segment customers by three summary measures (also known as the RFM model): recency (the period of time since their last visit), frequency (how often they visit) and monetary value (how much they spend on a visit). However, a new study published in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science shows that, in contrast to traditional market segmentation, one based on “binge consumption” brings a higher long-term return to business. .... " 

Big Data and Analytics Fighting Fraud

The November-December Analytics Magazine discusses Fraud

Big Data, Analytics, Fight Fraud
by Drew Carter and Stephanie Anderson  
Fraud doesn't play favorites; it's a multi-industry problem. How to employ analytics for effective, proactive fraud monitoring.

Goal-Driven Analytics 
by Eric A. King 
Big buzzkill: size and success don't correlate. Big data needs advanced analytics, but analytics does not need big data.

Real-Time Fraud Detection in the Cloud 
by Saurabh Tandon
Detecting fraud among online banking customers in near real time by running a combination of learning algorithms on a data set. ....   " 

Machine Learning for Data Value

In Informs Analytics Magazine

Machine Learning for Big Data Value.
Yes, big data helps unveil millions of facts about consumer behavior and trends. Leveraging emerging big data sources and types to gain a much more complete understanding of customer behavior – what makes them tick, why they buy, how they prefer to shop, why they switch, what they’ll buy next, what factors lead them to recommend a company to others – is strategic for virtually every company. But have data science organizations built the capabilities to truly harness big data? .... "