Introduction -- Section I. Evolution and adoption of the analytics process. 1. Evolution of analytics concept 2. The analytics knowledge management process -- Section II. Analytics knowledge applications in Latin America and emerging economies. 3. Analytics knowledge application to healthcare 4. Diffusion of adoptions on dynamic social networks: a case study of a real world community of consumers 5. Prescriptive analytics in manufacturing: an order acceptance illustration 6. A stochastic hierarchical approach for a production planning system under uncertain demands 7. Big data and analytics for consumer price index estimation 10. Data analytics to characterize university-based companies for decision making in business development programs 11. Statistical software reliability models 12. What Latin America says about entrepreneurship? An approach based on data analytics applications and social media contents 13. Healthcare topics with data science : exploratory research with social network analysis -- Index.