ACB, continuing education & more

Mitchell-Guthrie, Levis to lead Analytics Certification Board

Polly Mitchell-Guthrie of SAS and Jack Levis of UPS will serve as chair and vice chair, respectively, of the 2016 Analytics Certification Board (ACB) following their election by INFORMS members and CAP designees.

They will be joined on the ACB Board by: Aaron Burciaga, CAP, Accenture Digital; Tom Davenport, Babson College; Bill Franks, Teradata; Esma Gel, Arizona State University; Jeanne Harris, Columbia University of New York; Lisa Kart, CAP, Gartner; Kathy Kilmer, Disney; Jonathan Owen, CAP, GM; Greta Roberts, Talent Analytics; Jim Williams, CAP, FICO; Melissa Moore, INFORMS executive director.

The ACB will meet on a quarterly basis to provide oversight and guidance to the Certified Analytics Professional and the Associate Certified Analytics Professional programs.

For more about the CAP® program, visit https://www.certifiedanalytics.org/about.php

INFORMS Career Center offers support for internships

Just in time for the annual internship season, INFORMS now offers support for both students and employers through the INFORMS Career Center. Students can access analytics internships posted through INFORMS Career Center and elsewhere on the Web. To start your search, select Job Seekers Job Search from the menu at careercenter.informs.org, apply the “Internship” filter under JOB FUNCTION and click “Update Results.” Employers can post internships through INFORMS Career Center for free. To post your position, select Employers Post a Job from the menu at careercenter.informs.org,” click the appropriate continue button (INFORMS member or not), log in and then select the appropriate “30-Day Internship Posting.”

INFORMS launches Education Resource Library

INFORMS recently launched the INFORMS Education Resource Library, a comprehensive new site about university analytics programs that offers a rich set of resources including a listing of university programs and their courses, syllabi and case studies and research conducted by INFORMS committees about the intersection of university analytics programs and industry. Whether you’re directing a corporate analytics department and reaching out to job candidates, an analytics expert seeking to work with university researchers, an academic, or a student, you’ll find a wealth of resources at https://education.informs.org/home.

Analytics conference + continuing ed workshop = bundled savings

INFORMS Continuing Education is offering special savings on its two-day, professional development workshops when “bundled” with registration for the 2016 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research in Orlando, Fla.

On April 13 and 14, INFORMS will conduct its “Essential Practice Skills for High-Impact Analytics Projects” and “Foundations of Modern Predictive Analytics” courses at the University of Central Florida Executive Development Center in downtown Orlando. Register before March 21 and pay $1,950 for registration to the 2016 Conference on Analytics, as well as one of the two continuing education courses mentioned above.

For more information on the bundled pricing visit the Continuing Education page for the 2016 Analytics Conference.

INFORMS aids Data Science Bowl

INFORMS will once again support the National Data Science Bowl, an online, three-month-long (ending March 14) competitive event sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle. Held in conjunction with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health), this year’s challenge is to develop an algorithm to empower doctors to more easily diagnose dangerous heart conditions and help advance the science of heart disease treatment. For more information, visit www.datasciencebowl.com/