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Analytics Brio Trends – Best Practices – Models - Frameworks An Online and Print Magazine from Analytics & Big Data Forum – Asia Pacific Volume 1, Issue 1 April 2014 From the Guest Editor’s desk… Welcome to the first edition of Analytics Brio – an online and print magazine from Analytics & Big Data Forum – Asia Pacific. The response to the first executive committee meeting at NASSCOM East office was overwhelmingand we would like to thank everybody who attended, shared, commented and gave us the roadmap to begin the journey. We hope that you enjoy the magazine just as much and contribute as well to make it more exciting and comprehensive going forw ard. The Analytics & Big Data Forum – Asia Pacific should be able to contribute to effective use of analytics models and techniques including but not limited to Big Data, Predictive modeling, Machine learning, sentiment analysis anddifferent tools. The focus should be to complement each other as individuals and groups in mentoring, guiding and inspiring in newtrends of analytics. The outcomes can be action items at individual levels after interactions/meetings and also formulate work as evangelist in this area to influence associations, governments and bodies to update policies regarding promotion and usage of analytics in the corporate as well as social developmental work. In this issue we discuss the ways in which analytics is changing the lives of young and veteran companies across the business domain and some of the basic questions on emerging and popular technologies like Big Data. We also have few articles on applications of analyticsin sectors like Telecom and Power. Enjoy Reading ! Gautam Banerjee [email protected] Analytics Brio 1