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Trevor Hardy of the Canadian Football League -- Canada's counterpart to the NFL -- faced the task of scheduling 81 games for nine clubs across a 20-week season, balancing competing priorities for revenue, TV ratings, or player rest -- while meeting a wide...

The data now available to companies, coupled with advanced technology and business software, enables business analysts to perform the tasks of data scientists. Individuals can gain insight into everything from sales and marketing to production or shipping...

With today's tools, there's no reason to gamble on business decisions.  Before making a decision involving uncertainty, managers and executives can – and should – insist that risks are quantified and explored.

It may seem like a boast, but the facts back it up: Every single industry can benefit from modern analytics.