INFO RM S IN I T I AT I VE S
The second new course, “Foundations
of Modern Predictive Analytics,” will
be taught by James Drew, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, Verizon (ret.).
Modern predictive analytics, the
science of discovering and exploiting
complex data relationships, has rapidly
changed in recent years, especially in
today’s businesses. This course will
give participants hands-on practice in
handling real data types, real business
problems and practical methods for delivering business-useful results.
Some of the topic areas to be covered
in this course are: linear regression, regression trees, logistic regression and
CART (classification and regression
trees).
The course will be held in Washington,
D.C., Sept. 15-16, and San Francisco,
Nov. 7-8.
Learn more about these courses
including course outlines, instructor
biographies, program objectives and
how to register at: www.informs.org/
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ANALYTICS CLUSTER SET FOR
INFORMS ANNUAL MEETING IN S.F.
The Analytics Section of INFORMS
will present the analytics cluster of sessions and presentations at the INFORMS
Annual Meeting in San Francisco
Nov. 9-12. The cluster encompasses
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20 sessions featuring the renowned
analytics practitioners and leaders. Nine
additional sessions will be jointly organized in collaboration with the Health
Applications Society (HAS),CPMS
(the Practice Section of INFORMS)
and the Section on O.R. in Sports
(SpORts).
The sessions/presentations within
the cluster cover such topics as:
• Successful application of analytics in
multiple industries such as healthcare,
transportation, defense and sports
• Analytics focus areas such as big data,
spreadsheets and predictive analytics
• Panel discussions on understanding the connection between O.R. and
analytics, building analytics programs to
support organizations’ needs and business analytics in healthcare industry
• Winners of the Innovative Applications
in Analytics Award and the SAS Student
Paper Competition
• Why’s, how’s and what’s of analytics
certification
More information about the conference can be found at http://meetings2.
informs.org/sanfrancisco2014/.
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