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While generative AI (GenAI) can help define viable objectives for organizational and policy decision-making, the overall quality of those objectives falls short unless humans intervene.

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Travelers systematically give restaurants higher online ratings than locals do, revealing a “tourist bias” that could distort how diners and platforms interpret online reviews.

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Prepopulating e-commerce search bars with trending or personalized keywords can meaningfully increase both purchasing and consumer spending. 

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When the insurance company monitors your driving in real time does it help?

When the insurance company monitors your driving in real time does it help?

News Release, February 6, 2019

CATONSVILLE, MD, February 6, 2019 – The traditional model for setting auto insurance premiums has been to base rates on the motorist’s driving history, age, gender and even marital status (in some states). Thanks to new technological options, insurance companies and motorists have started to work together to give the insurance companies access to better data on an individual driver’s risk level, and give the same driver a sense of greater control over how much he or she will pay in insurance premiums.

2019 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference: Industry 4.0

2019 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference: Industry 4.0

KD Nuggets, February 5, 2019

With analytics driving and impacting nearly every industry today, it is ever-more essential and challenging to stay current in this rapidly moving field. The 2019 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research offers a rich experience for Analytics professionals and other business leaders to learn from and network with leading experts and professionals at the epicenter of the evolution of data science.

With weight loss being a common self-improvement goal does the ‘buddy system’ approach to weight loss work?

With weight loss being a common self-improvement goal does the ‘buddy system’ approach to weight loss work?

News Release, January 29, 2019

CATONSVILLE, MD, January 29, 2019 – One of the more common self-improvement goals, particularly in the winter months before “beach body” season, is to lose weight. How people attempt to achieve their goals may vary by individual, but one of the more popular approaches is enrollment in a commercial weight loss program that uses a ‘buddy system’ approach to weight loss.

ABOK is No. 2 on list of best books to read this year

ABOK is No. 2 on list of best books to read this year

BookAuthority, January 24, 2019

The INFORMS Analytics Body of Knowledge (ABOK), released earlier this year at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, has been named second on the list of “22 Best New Analytics Books to Read in 2019” by BookAuthority, which identifies and rates the best books in the world, based on public mentions, recommendations, ratings and sentiment.

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