How will analytics rock your world in 2012?

Malene Haxholdt
Malene Haxholdt|January 13, 2012

It’s true. “Big data” can be a problem and an opportunity. Many organizations have struggled to manage, much less profit from, the deluge. In 2012, look for big data to spur demand for big data analytics. New developments in high-performance computing as well as increased demand for visualization and text [...]

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Contagion: Wash hands after reading

Trent Smith
Trent Smith|October 23, 2011

For the past year, I’ve had the pleasure of serving on the communications team of the National Collaborative for Bio-Preparedness (NCB-P), of which SAS is a partner and the analytics provider. That experience was heavy on my mind as I recently watched the film Contagion. I may drop some minor [...]

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Analytics is a field of dreams

Dan Zaratsian
Dan Zaratsian|September 21, 2011

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. -Yogi Berra As Moneyball hits theaters on September 23, I know awareness and appreciation for analytics will spike. The thought of the little guy being able to outmaneuver their stronger, better equipped opponent resonates with many people and relates [...]

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Three real-world examples of text analytics

Kristine Vick
Kristine Vick|July 13, 2011

Thousands of people have participated in this year’s Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, and now is your chance to get in on it too! Whether you are able to join in live on July 20 or view later on demand, you’ll want to catch the complimentary Webinar, “Text Analytics – [...]

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Analytics successes in full swing at Predictive Analytics World

Tapan Patel
Tapan Patel|November 15, 2010

Last month I attended the Predictive Analytics World conference in Washington DC. It attracted more attendees from last year with broad representation from multiple industries. The conference was kicked off by Eric Siegel’s keynote focusing on Five ways predictive analytics cuts enterprise risk. The gist of his presentation was to [...]

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Planning for the KDD data mining event

Kristine Vick
Kristine Vick|July 9, 2010

Several of us at SAS are gearing up for the 16th annual ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. If you are not familiar with this, it is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research [...]

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Text Analytics Summit - Day 2:

Anne Milley
Anne Milley|June 3, 2009

Wow–attending the 5th annual Text Analytics Summit was truly an enriching experience. My compliments to Seth Grimes and the conference organizers for convening such interesting speakers and content. Day 2 started with Sue Feldman and Hadley Reynolds of IDC. Key takeaways from their keynote, Text Analytics Market Report: Think about [...]

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Anne Milley reports from the Text Analytics Summit

Anne Milley
Anne Milley|June 2, 2009

First time attending Text Analytics Summit here in Boston and expectations (though high) were exceeded. Despite a late train and missing Conference Chair, Seth Grime’s pre-conference workshop yesterday, it was good to see Nick Patience’s workshop on vendor selection and do a little pre-conference networking. Since I am CT-based, it [...]

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