The Operations Research / Management Science Blog

The Operations Research / Management Science Blog

Entries from September 2008

Operations Researchers Use Mathematical Modeling to Forecast Election Outcome

September 20th, 2008 · No Comments · General

There are already several articles on this topic (see references), so I will just briefly talk about it.
Election day is only over a month away. Dr. Sheldon H. Jacobson, an OR professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and his students have created a mathematical model that dynamically forecasts the outcome of the [...]

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Research Shows That Most Organizations Are Not Confident with Their Analytics

September 14th, 2008 · No Comments · General

Ventana Research, a leading benchmark research and advisory services firm, released a new benchmark research, “Decision-Making and Performance: Improving Essential Business Analytics and Technologies”, which revealed the striking fact that while most organizations wish to optimize their decision-making, only one-third of them are confident in the quality of their analytics.

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