Update Your Data!

Help us create a visualization of member data in 2022.

One of INFORMS strategic goals is advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. We’re asking for all members to add or update their demographics so that we can better understand the diversity within INFORMS. As 2022 proceeds, you’ll see the blank outlines on the opposite page continue to fill in with color, shape and texture representing the diversity of INFORMS members. 

We’re counting on your help to complete the full picture!  We have recently updated questions to allow for multiple answers or write-in answers in case you don’t identify with the choices we provide. The information you submit via this form will replace what’s in your current member profile. 

How it Will Work

There are eight components of diversity for this project: primary work setting, highest degree, racial identity, gender identity, pronouns, birth year, language(s) spoken and OR/MS activities. Some of these, such as pronouns and languages, are entirely new questions for which we have no existing data. Most of the questions have simply been revised to update terminology and allow different or additional answers. We encourage you to review your previously provided data, contribute any updates and complete the new questions. If you have personal reasons not to share your demographic data, we encourage you to select Prefer not to answer rather than leave it blank. 

The demographics we are including in the visual representation, and its key, are illustrated on the next page. In a few weeks, all INFORMS members will receive an email with a link to the demographics survey. You can also update this information at any time by logging in to myaccount.informs.org and navigating to the "About Me" section on the My Info page. Our customer service team stands ready to help if you encounter any difficulties or have questions: informs@informs.org

We’ll remind you of this campaign periodically by email and in our eNewsletters throughout the year. Follow INFORMS on social media, and you’ll see reminders there as well! 

This project will include a large interactive art display at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, where attendees can contribute their demographic data in person. At the end of 2022, we’ll compare the demographic data we’ve collected to what we had at the beginning of the year. A full analysis of the data and an evaluation of how the results might inform our organizational priorities in 2023 and beyond will appear in the December issue of OR/MS Today

We are excited to kick off this project! But we can’t do it without you. Please help us discover and honor the diversity among INFORMS members.

Note: INFORMS is committed to respecting member privacy. INFORMS staff have access to this data, which
is governed by our Privacy Policy. 

The Visual

Hexagon divided into six sections numbered clockwise: 1 & 2, 7, 4, 3 & 6, 8, and 5

The Key

Each demographic is represented within segments of a hexagon. Four of the segments represent one demographic each, and two segments represent two demographics each, for a total of eight demographics being displayed in this project.

The segments representing two demographics include color and pattern to distinguish them. The demographics that were combined were chosen randomly: primary work setting with race, and age with gender. Wherever colors are assigned to answers, the tones were chosen randomly.

1. My primary work setting:

  • hexagon with very thin vertical black lines Academia
  • hexagon with thin vertical black lines Consulting
  • hexagon with medium vertical black lines Government
  • hexagon with thick vertical black lines Industry
  • hexagon with very thick vertical black lines Not Listed

2. My racial identity:

  • hexagon with solid #bad982 green background White
  • hexagon with solid #82c342 green background South Asian or South Asian American
  • hexagon with solid #68c075 green background Black or African American
  • hexagon with solid #68c075 green background Black or African American
  • hexagon with solid #415813 green background Eastern Asian or East Asian American
  • hexagon with solid #74a333 green background Hispanic or Latinx
  • hexagon with solid #d9e8ac green background Indigenous American
  • hexagon with solid #549e3c green background Middle Eastern
  • hexagon with solid #96ca4f green background Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
  • hexagon with solid #2e641e green background Prefer Not to Answer
  • hexagon with solid #e4eb9c green background Not Listed

3. My gender identity:

  • hexagon with thin randomized black lines Female
  • hexagon with thin randomized overlapping black lines Male
  • hexagon with randomized overlapping black circles Gender Expansive or Nonbinary
  • hexagon with very thin criss-crossing black lines Prefer Not to Answer
  • hexagon with very tiny and tightly packed black dots Not Listed

4. My pronouns are:

  • hexagon with evenly spaced white squares with very thin black outlines He/him/his
  • hexagon with evenly spaced black squares She/her/hers
  • hexagon with evenly spaced white squares with very thin black outlines and a smaller black square inside They/them/theirs
  • hexagon with evenly spaced very thin hoirzontal black lines Prefer Not to Answer
  • hexagon with evenly spaced medium hoirzontal black lines Not Listed

5. My highest degree earned:

  • hexagon with very tiny black dots None
  • hexagon with tiny black dots High School
  • hexagon with very small black dots Associate
  • hexagon with small black dots Bachelor's
  • hexagon with medium black dots Master's
  • hexagon with large black dots Ph.D.
  • hexagon with very large black dots Doctor of Medicine
  • hexagon with huge black dots Other/NA

6. My age group:

  • hexagon with solid #fbb679 orange background 10-19 Years
  • hexagon with solid #a94f16 orange background 20-29 Years
  • hexagon with solid #f57f29 orange background 30-39 Years
  • hexagon with solid #fdca8c orange background 40-49 Years
  • hexagon with solid #8f3e0f orange background 50-59 Years
  • hexagon with solid #df6420 orange background 60-69 Years
  • hexagon with solid #ffe0af orange background 70-79 Years
  • hexagon with solid #582900 orange background 80-89 Years
  • hexagon with solid #f9a456 orange background 90-99 Years
  • hexagon with solid #ca7c1b orange background Prefer Not to Answer

7. I fluently speak:

  • hexagon with solid #ffda02 yellow background Arabic
  • hexagon with solid #f9c606 yellow background English
  • hexagon with solid #e09e19 yellow background Farsi
  • hexagon with solid #fff0c3 yellow background French
  • hexagon with solid #ffd600 yellow background German
  • hexagon with solid #6a4d05 yellow background Hindi
  • hexagon with solid #d29847 yellow background Italian
  • hexagon with solid #ffed46 yellow background Japanese
  • hexagon with solid #fbe99e yellow background Korean
  • hexagon with solid #ffc956 yellow background Mandarin
  • hexagon with solid #d5a619 yellow background Portuguese
  • hexagon with solid #f7d880 yellow background Russian
  • hexagon with solid #b57916 yellow background Spanish
  • hexagon with solid #e4aa17 yellow background Turkish
  • hexagon with solid #ffe23c yellow background Not Listed

8. My professional OR/MS activities:

  • hexagon with solid #c9d7ee blue background Analytics
  • hexagon with solid #68cef2 blue background Artificial Intelligence
  • hexagon with solid #0075bc blue background Behavioral Science
  • hexagon with solid #80cec8 blue background Career Development
  • hexagon with solid #485daa blue background Computing
  • hexagon with solid #00b2ba blue background Data Mining
  • hexagon with solid #313896 blue background Data Science
  • hexagon with solid #bfe7f7 blue background Decision-making
  • hexagon with solid #008fb4 blue background Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
  • hexagon with solid #567ebf blue background e-Commerce
  • hexagon with solid #1fc0da blue background Economics
  • hexagon with solid #043673 blue background Environment & Natural Resources
  • hexagon with solid #15bef0 blue background Finance/Insurance
  • hexagon with solid #00ae9a blue background Government & Public Policy
  • hexagon with solid #5eaee0 blue background Healthcare
  • hexagon with solid #98a7d5 blue background Info Systems & Tech
  • hexagon with solid #005c97 blue background Manufacturing
  • hexagon with solid #0077a0 blue background Marketing
  • hexagon with solid #00667d blue background Military/Security
  • hexagon with solid #00468b blue background Optimization
  • hexagon with solid #262a82 blue background Revenue Management & Pricing
  • hexagon with solid #001641 blue background Simulation
  • hexagon with solid #00b3dc blue background Supply Chain
  • hexagon with solid #0088ce blue background Teaching Methods/Improvement
  • hexagon with solid #7ad0e4 blue background Telecommunications
  • hexagon with solid #008599 blue background Transportation/Warehousing
  • hexagon with solid #47bfaf blue background Not Listed