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Board - ORBEL - Belgian OR Society
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ORBEL Award (OM Partners). ORBEL Wolsey Award (N-SIDE). Elected for the years 2015 and 2016:. Aghezzaf, El Houssaine. Labbé, Martine. Sörensen, Kenneth. Van Utterbeeck, Filip. Elected for the years 2016 and 2017:. David, Benoît. De Baets, Bernard. De Causmaecker, Patrick. De Smet, Yves. Mélot, Hadrien. Schyns, Michaël. Vanden Berghe, Greet. Van Vyve, Matthieu. Operational Research Societies: Bernard Fortz and Pierre Kunsch. Federation of Operational Research Societies: Bernard Fortz. February 2-3, 2017.
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OR at Work: May 2015
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Monday, 25 May 2015. There is more to analytics than just fishing in the data lake. We live in an era in which we celebrate technology, we live for the l atest gadgets. Find the best model. Best practice before running any statistical analysis is to first visually inspect the data. In 1973, Anscombe presented. When summarizing the ...
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OR at Work: Do numbers really speak for themselves with big data?
http://john-poppelaars.blogspot.com/2015/04/do-numbers-really-speak-for-themselves.html
This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Sunday, 5 April 2015. Do numbers really speak for themselves with big data? Chris Anderson, former editor in chief of Wired was clear about it in his provocative essay “ The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. How would this work in practice? Remark : Details of the regression example. Paul Jensen's...
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OR at Work: June 2015
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Sunday, 21 June 2015. Prescriptive analytics, the next big step? It’s the most advanced, most promising variant of analytics, at least that’s what vendors of analytics software are saying, but it is also the most demanding. To position the different types of analytics cleary shows that. Gartner positions prescriptive analytics ...
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OR at Work: A toast to Occam’s razor; Accuracy vs Interpretability
http://john-poppelaars.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-toast-to-occams-razor-accuracy-vs.html
This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Tuesday, 10 March 2015. A toast to Occam’s razor; Accuracy vs Interpretability. It’s a rather simplistic interpretation of Occam’s razor to prefer simple over complex models. Occam’s advice is to choose the simplest model in case the competing models have the same predictive ability. So he puts model accur...One of the golden rules...
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OR at Work: July 2014
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Wednesday, 30 July 2014. When data gets Big, it becomes complicated. Growth of data is immense. Source www.idc.com. How data impacts strategy. That digital and data with an IP address have transformed businesses today is clear. Nobody buys an encyclopaedia anymore; we just look it up on Wikipedia. It gets control over its sourcing ...
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Dolor's Rants: September 2013
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Friday, 13 September 2013. The Impact of Operations Research on People, Business and Society. Last week the international conference on Operations Research OR2013. Took place in Rotterdam. The conference was the result of the close corporation of the GermanOR society. GOR), the Erasmus University Rotterdam and t he Dutch OR society.
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OR at Work: There is more to analytics than just fishing in the data lake
http://john-poppelaars.blogspot.com/2015/05/there-is-more-to-analytics-than-just.html
This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Monday, 25 May 2015. There is more to analytics than just fishing in the data lake. We live in an era in which we celebrate technology, we live for the l atest gadgets. Find the best model. Best practice before running any statistical analysis is to first visually inspect the data. In 1973, Anscombe presented. When summarizing the ...
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OR at Work: Is Big Data Objective, Truthful and Credible?
http://john-poppelaars.blogspot.com/2015/01/is-big-data-objective-truthful-and.html
This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Sunday, 18 January 2015. Is Big Data Objective, Truthful and Credible? As if massive data sets and some predictive analytics always will reflect the objective truth. But can big data really deliver on that promise? Is big data objective, truthful and credible? Source : IBM Global Data Growth. Can we treat all that new data the same...
