ORMS Today December 2016

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AWARDS GALORE: INFORMS salutes its brightest stars

December 2016

Volume 43 • Number 6 ormstoday.informs.org

Inside: Why the polls were wrong The presidential election that confounded everyone

O.R. at Google Tech giant a ‘candy store’ for practitioners

Sound data science Avoiding most pernicious prediction pitfall

Balancing risk with probability PG&E case study: Emerging discipline of probability management provides overall risk snapshot to assess tradeoffs between safety, reliability and cost

Moving ahead with membership Interview with incoming INFORMS President Brian Denton


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