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From ORMS Today, February 2009
Sample dashboards for healthcare and The Beijing Olympics from idashboards.com
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers
Watch those assumptions: Recipe for Disaster.
New data opportunities for DSS: Exploring a ‘Deep Web’ That Google Can’t Grasp
Does anger lead to better decision making? Read the premis and the results.
Let's look at a decision: March Madness.
An interesting example of modeling, including stating assumptions: Finding Osama Bin Laden.
Analytics Solutions from Accenture Information Management Services: read more
More on the Accenture Study.
Web Sites
To Hell with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut by Thomas Wailgum. The Accenture study.
Gut Versus Analytics: What's the Real Story? by Neil Raden.
The official trailer from the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey
An innovative way of gaining information about problems on which you are working: Illumino. Illumino is now owned by Oracle and is part of their Beehive product. For an earlier description of the product,
check here.
As we talk about decision making, consider:
See how companies are using data mining to change their business: American Express.
James Taylor's blog on Enterprise Decision Management.
Predictive Analytics with Data Mining: How It Works
The factors causing pressure to increase DSS and business intelligence use.
The stages of analytics use from "Istvan Szeman, :Business Intelligence Past, Present and Future," SAS Institute, 2006, http://www.sas.com/search/cs.html?url=http%3A//www.sas.com/offices/europe/bulgaria/downloads/saga_conf_sas.ppt&charset=iso-8859-1&qt=degree+of+intelligence+competitive+advantage+%2Bgraphic&col=extsas&n=1&la=en, Viewed January 29, 2009.
The Analytical Decision Process Spider Diagram from "Ferris, J, How to Compete on Analytics: The Analytical Center of Excellence," A SAS Institute White Paper, http://www.sas.com/apps/whitepaper/index.jsp?cid=6426, nd, Viewed January 29, 2009.
Blogs
Which direction is the bus moving?
With enough analysis, we can understand how to "help" intuition. See recent efforts to understand the article in Science News.
A (January 10, 2005, p.57) Time magazine article critiques a new book about
decision making called Blink. Read the article and be prepared to discuss this in terms of what it means for designing decision support systems.
If you are rusty on HTML, you might consider the HTML help page.
Unlocking the Door to the White House
Decision 2008
Candidate 'Match Game' from USA Today
Meet the Candidates from KSDK
Select a Candidate Quiz from WQAD
Select a Candidate Quiz from Political Base
Do You Know Where Your Identity Is? Personal Data Theft Eludes Easy Remedies
2005 annual STLWEBDEV Best Sites of the Year competition
The Maximization Debates
ACM Tech News
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