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Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence have moved from emerging technologies to become core tools in organizations today. These technologies enable enterprises to dive deeper into ever-growing volume of data to solve multifaceted business problems. In an interview with Analytics Insight, Melissa Bowers, PhD, Director of the Master’s in Business Analytics (MSBA) program at the Haslam College of Business, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville shares how the college offers a cutting-edge business analytics program to train the next generation of data scientists for today’s forward-thinking organizations.

The New York Police Department, working mostly in secret with private companies and in-house data scientists, has developed its own crime-forecasting technology.

Whether or not you have an analytics background, in this digital age algorithms are everywhere… in how ambulances determine their route to the hospital, in elections… you name it.

INFORMS member Dean Hartley discusses his article "Persuasion Wars, Part 1," featured in the June issue of OR/MS Today magazine, which explores the history of the science of persuasion.

Given the scale of the world’s food supply, there aren’t many industries that lend themselves to the power of data science and analytics than agriculture. This is the thinking behind a new research paper from a group of data scientists who make a case for finding new ways to use blockchain, AI and API management to enable “smart agriculture.”  The paper, “Agricultural Digital Transformation,” has been published in the OR/MS Today journal from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).