What’s a nice defense consultancy company such as the Perduco Group doing in the sports analytics space?
Over the past decade, corporations across industry verticals have invested significant capital to upgrade their infrastructure to analyze customer data collected within a multichannel environment. And so the obvious next question is – what now?
I was recently promoted from “associate professor” to “professor.” There were two notable things about this promotion:
As of this writing, 7.5 million people have signed up for their own health insurance policies via Healthcare.gov or 14 state-run health insurance exchanges. In addition about three million people have enrolled in state Medicaid programs. Private enrollment outside of those insurance marketplaces is also growing and could be substantial.
Do you have two imaginary voices that are on each of your shoulders telling you opposite messages? I do. And the voices are conflicting. One is a message of positive hope and possibilities, and the other one is of negative discouragement.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which collaborated with Kid Risk, Inc. to use analytics and operations research to combat the remaining pockets of polio around the world, won the 2014 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Eric Siegel’s book – “Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die”– deals with quantitative efforts to predict human behavior. One of the earliest efforts to do that was in World War II. Norbert Wiener, the father of “cybernetics,” began trying to predict the behavior of German airplane pilots in 1940 – with the goal of shooting them from the sky.
INFORMS is launching a new topical conference that will put the focus squarely on the business of big data – how organizations can transition from being data-rich to decision-smart. The INFORMS Big Data Conference will be held June 22-24 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. The conference is organized around tracks on “Big Data Case Studies,” “Big Data 101” and “Emerging Trends in Big Data.”
Warning: Factorials and powers are ubiquitous in this article. Like Tribbles from Star Trek, expressions like “64” look cute and innocent, but they are some of the most deadly mathematical beasts known to man.
Your government has lost track of a high profile foreign spy and they have requested your help to track him down. As part of his attempts to evade capture, the spy has employed a simple strategy. Each day the spy moves from the country that he is currently in to a neighboring country.
In the last few articles I tried to put the spotlight on new developments in healthcare around the world. As we are getting closer to the end of 2019, I am energized to see positive movements in the healthcare analytics and health information technology space continuing worldwide. Let’s look at what is happening at home first.
