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DRIVING BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS
november/december 2014
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28 Goal-driven analytics
Big buzzkill: size and success don’t correlate. Big data needs
advanced analytics, but analytics does not need big data.
By Eric A. King
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40 Big data, analytics fight fraud
Fraud doesn’t play favorites; it’s a multi-industry problem.
How to employ analytics for effective, proactive fraud monitoring.
By Drew Carter and Stephanie Anderson
48 Real-time fraud detection in the cloud
Detecting fraud among online banking customers in near
real time by running a combination of learning algorithms
on a data set.
By Saurabh Tandon
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54 Corporate profile: AOE
Analytics Operations Engineering, Inc. applies advanced
quantitative methods to solve challenging operations problems.
By Mitchell Burman and Lauren Berk
62 Software survey: Decision analysis
Decision tools continue to evolve, providing analysts with
more horsepower to transform vast amounts of information into
better decision-making.
By William M. Patchak
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