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Seeking referral to Economist - fiscal impact of highway project

Posted By Carrie Beam 08-15-2024 13:23
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Hi all - seeking a referral to an Economist who can calculate the fiscal impact of a highway project. Open to individual consultants and/or consulting firms. Is this you? Or do you know anybody? I would very much appreciate the connection. Thanks, Carrie ------------------------------ ...

UC Davis MSBA Zoom Open House - March 5 and March 13 - you're invited!

Posted By Carrie Beam 02-28-2024 12:31
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Hello INFORMS members - interested in the next generation? You are warmly invited to our Zoom open house for the MSBA (Master of Science in Business Analytics) program at UC Davis. Learn how you can have a grad student team (5 students for a full academic year - 1200 hours of analytics attention) work ...

Seeking Consultant: HIPAA Privacy Rule Section 164.514(b) -- statistical de-identification of data

Posted By Carrie Beam 10-19-2023 10:57
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Hi all - posting for an attorney colleague of mine: "We are looking for an individual who renders information not individually identifiable by determining that the risk is very small that the information could be used to identify an individual and then document such. (the "Expert Determination" method, ...

Freestyle OR Supreme - signups open for Phoenix 2023 game show - students especially invited!

Posted By Carrie Beam 10-02-2023 21:04
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It's time ... for FREESTYLE OR SUPREME! Signups now open for our student "frame that problem" game at INFORMS Phoenix 2023. This is a fast-moving game show in which sponsor DataPrime will present a real-world analytics problem, and student teams compete to frame the problem using the INFORMS Job Task ...

Slightly OT - contract software programmer wanted (Angular, Python, MySQL)

Posted By Carrie Beam 09-22-2023 16:52
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Hello all - A client is looking to hire a contract software developer, starting part-time. Needs experience with Angular, Python, and MySQL with good communication and fluent English; would be working with one existing software developer on a startup piece of software. Know anybody? Feel free to forward ...

Freestyle OR Supreme - Got a Wild Problem and Want our Students to Solve it for You? Sponsor needed!

Posted By Carrie Beam 09-13-2023 20:13
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Hello supergeeks - once again we are running the Freestyle OR Supreme Expo Game Show at the Annual Meeting in Phoenix and (global warming or not) it will be hot, hot, HOT! This fast-moving game-style show has our sponsor give a 15 minute overview of an OR/analytics problem "in the wild," and then our ...

Subject matter expert - windmill physics (intellectual property documentation)

Posted By Carrie Beam 08-25-2023 20:09
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Hi all - slightly off-topic in that it's not straightforward OR, but it's math and you all are subject matter experts, so hoping you can help. Feel free to forward; this is for a client of an intellectual property attorney I know. California-based inventor is filing for a patent on a mechanical device ...

Text/language parsing help plus front-end developer referral?

Posted By Carrie Beam 04-04-2023 13:25
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Hi all - asking for help on language/text parsing here. I have a consulting project in which they want to take in a paragraph or so of free-form text, such as a human's dictation of an event or an email describing a situation. We want the computer to be able to extract out meaningful bits from this ...

Freestyle O.R. Supreme Expo - for all students and early career professionals (fame and glory await) - 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting

Posted By Carrie Beam 10-08-2022 12:21
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Hello all sports fans - once again it's time for Freestyle O.R. Supreme, our Expo Game Show. It's Wednesday morning October 19 in Indianapolis, and we welcome all competitors: grad students, undergrads, early career professionals, and anybody else who wants to build a resume, practice consulting skills, ...

Slightly OT - anybody have connections at Waymo, Cruise, or other self-driving car companies? (Former intern of mine looking for internship/job)

Posted By Carrie Beam 01-23-2022 20:15
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Hi all - I'm seeking a favor here.  A former intern of mine is interested in working for self-driving car companies, such as Waymo or Cruise. Does anybody have any connections who might be willing to spend a few minutes with him conducting an informational interview? He's going to graduate in December ...

Slightly OT: RPA (Robotic Process Automation?)

Posted By Carrie Beam 11-13-2021 18:56
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Hi all - slightly off topic but you are the best geeks around.  I'm looking for a referral to a resource that can implement RPA (robotic process automation).  Does anybody know of any independent contractors or (better yet) companies that can do RPA?  The sort of thing where they code a UiPath robot ...

Freestyle O.R. Supreme Game Show Signups available! (Students and early career professionals esp encouraged to play)

Posted By Carrie Beam 10-18-2021 13:21
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Hey geeklets! It's that time again - time for Freestyle O.R. Supreme at our Annual Meeting. What is Freestyle? It's our Annual Meeting game show for students and early-career professionals (although we are equal-opportunity; your department head is welcome to play as well.) This year we are running ...

Data set for affinity analysis / market basket analysis algorithms? Ideally healthcare/medical, will take anything IE-related

Posted By Carrie Beam 08-13-2021 17:33
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Hi all - I'm working on an Analytics class (taught in R if that makes any difference.)  Currently we use Affinity Analysis (also called Market Basket Analysis) on a case study data set with students in a marketing/cross-selling domain.   Turns out we aren't Amazon.com with the shopping cart recommender.  ...

Slightly OT: Image tagging - any experience with Google Vision API or similar technology?

Posted By Carrie Beam 06-30-2021 14:42
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Hi all - Does anybody have any experience in Google Vision API or similar technology for photo tagging? The use case application - we have lots (10,000+) of photos of objects (think different types of household items), and we want to tag them with text like "hammer" and "dish" and "stove." We have a ...

Annual Meeting - Freestyle O.R. Supreme Game Show Signups Open (Students especially encouraged to sign up!)

Posted By Carrie Beam 11-03-2020 19:56
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[Re-posting because we have a few spots left!] Hey geeklets! It's that time again - time for Freestyle O.R. Supreme at our Annual Meeting. What is Freestyle? It's our Annual Meeting game show for students and early-career professionals (although we are equal-opportunity; your department head is welcome ...

Annual Meeting - Freestyle O.R. Supreme Game Show Signups Open (Students especially encouraged to sign up!)

Posted By Carrie Beam 10-27-2020 15:15
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Hey geeklets! It's that time again - time for Freestyle O.R. Supreme at our Annual Meeting.   What is Freestyle? It's our Annual Meeting game show for students and early-career professionals (although we are equal-opportunity; your department head is welcome to play as well.) This year we are running ...

Students - have a practice-oriented presentation for Annual Meeting 2020 in Maryland?

Posted By Carrie Beam 06-09-2020 15:14
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Calling all students (or professors who have students)! We have a few openings for practice-oriented student presentations at the Fall 2020 Annual Meeting.  The track is called "Student Focused Papers - The Next Generation" and while we aren't quite Star Trek enough to make it all the way to the next ...

Engineering Management textbooks?

Posted By Carrie Beam 05-14-2020 10:12
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Hi all - I'm looking to review Engineering Management textbooks suitable for a graduate level class for Master's of Science of Engineering Management students.  They will typically have earned an undergrad engineering degree, have worked for a while, and are now coming back to school to earn a Master's.  ...

Professors - have you used Editor's Cut in your classes? We want to know!

Posted By Carrie Beam 04-21-2020 18:08
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Hello all - looking for professors (or anybody really) who has used Editor's Cut in their classrooms.  What is Editor's Cut?  A curated online collection of the best of INFORMS publications, grouped under areas like Cybersecurity, Transportation, Military O.R., and more. I'm drafting an article for OR/MS ...

Data science recruiters?

Posted By Carrie Beam 01-13-2020 19:16
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Hello - posting on behalf of a colleague.  He is currently moving to the United States from Europe (he is a foreign national, married to a U.S. citizen and has immigration paperwork under way.)  Does anybody know of any data science recruiters he should be speaking with?  If so, please let me know and ...