Analytics, the ultimate renewable resource

David Pope
David Pope|May 20, 2013

The value of analytics to solve multiple business problems really makes analytics the ultimate reusable business investment, or as they say in the energy industry, it may be called a renewable resource. As I’ve commented before, organizations send billions of dollars on storing data, and unless you happen to be a [...]

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Discovering and celebrating statistics

Georgia Mariani
Georgia Mariani|May 10, 2013

In the past, I’ve contributed to this blog with posts about the use of analytics and statistics in the education industry. I haven’t written in a while because I’ve been transitioning to a new role as the product marketing manager for statistics. I’ll give you three reasons why I’m excited [...]

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What they saw at the evolution: Davenport, Dyché usher the arrival Analytics 3.0

Barry Gay
Barry Gay|May 7, 2013

In the late 1990s, Jill Dyché, co-founder of Baseline Consulting, worked on a multi-year engagement to stand up Bell South’s business intelligence and analytics strategy. “This was heavy-duty programming; this was heavy-duty code,” she recalls. “SQL is not necessarily optimized for set data to do this kind of thing, but [...]

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What is the future of big data in health care?

Becky Graebe
Becky Graebe|May 6, 2013

Big data might be daunting, but Matthew J. Becker, Senior Director and Global Head of Statistical Programming at inVentive Health Clinical, says the goal remains simple for those in health care and life sciences: cure disease and improve health outcomes. Speaking last week at SAS Global Forum, Becker noted that [...]

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Big names talk big products

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|May 5, 2013

When users attend SAS Global Forum, they often look forward to hearing from the big names of SAS. To name a few: CEO Jim Goodnight, VP and CMO Jim Davis, and Co-Founder John Sall. Inside SAS Global Forum caught up with these busy executives on the demo floor to talk about SAS [...]

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Discover something interesting and useful: A data mining overview

Kim Darnofall
Kim Darnofall|May 4, 2013

A contract instructor for SAS since 1981 and an NC State University professor, David A. Dickey has a passion for statistics and sharing that passion with others. On Tuesday at SAS Global Forum he gave a general overview of data mining, touching on decision trees, regression trees, logistic regression, neural [...]

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Engineered to win at Jeopardy!

Lisa Arney
Lisa Arney|May 3, 2013

It’s usually hard to draw a big crowd for the final session of a four-day conference, especially when it starts at 8 a.m. But this year, SAS Global Forum attendees set their alarms and got up early to hear how Roger Craig used statistics to help him win the Jeopardy! [...]

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Forecasting with 15,000 variables and 7,000 models

Alli Soule
Alli Soule|May 3, 2013

How does a $55 billion company get a sense of its demand when it operates in virtually every market – from paint to electronics – on a global scale? That’s the question Timothy D. Rey answered during a presentation on how his company, Dow Chemical, used a data mining approach [...]

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SAS Business Intelligence development: We listened. We improved. We made it easy.

Kate Moye
Kate Moye|May 2, 2013

Enthusiastic SAS Global Forum users flocked to the SAS Business Intelligence Development Roundtable for an interactive panel discussion on the current BI and reporting solutions portfolio including SAS Enterprise BI Server, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Mobile BI and SAS Visual Analytics and the future focus of the products. Panelists included SAS representatives from Product [...]

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Does the philosophy of knowledge need statistics?

Becky Graebe
Becky Graebe|May 2, 2013

If a SAS Global Forum presentation doesn’t include at least one line of code, is it still a presentation? Absolutely. Just ask those who donned their thinking caps to hear J. Michael Hardin, Dean and Professor of Statistics from Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of [...]

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