Everyone who knows about monarch butterflies, likes monarch butterflies. This blog post focuses on their food source - milkweed. And to get you in the mood, here's an amazingly beautiful picture my friend Eniko made of a monarch: In recent years, I had heard reports of the dwindling number of
All global researches and surveys show that all kind of fraud, like procurement fraud, is rising and empowered by new dimensions in matter of vulnerabilities and attack methods. From traditional check tampering and skimming methods to cyber crime attacks, fraudsters become more sophisticated, with a powerful arsenal of technology in
Update-in-place supports the ability to update a SAS Deployment within a major SAS release. Updates often provide new versions of SAS products. However, when using the SAS Deployment Wizard to perform an update-in-place you cannot selectively update a machine or product. As a general rule if you want to update
In my previous post, Are you ready for the Analytics Fast Track? Part I, I shared details of the SAS and Intel proof of concept program, and promised to follow up with information about our “For Purchase” program. Many organizations are looking for sandbox environments that allow their data scientists
This article describes how you can evaluate the Lambert W function in SAS/IML software. The Lambert W function is defined implicitly: given a real value x, the function's value w = W(x) is the value of w that satisfies the equation w exp(w) = x. Thus, W is the inverse
A medida que evoluciona el panorama de la analítica y por la experimentada trayectoria que en SAS hemos construido por 40 años como líderes en el mercado, nos enorgullece dar a conocer un evento, en torno a la analítica de negocios y sus tendencias, mediante la fusión de The Premier
It’s nearly impossible to avoid the debate. From politicians and pundit commentary, to dinner table discussions across the United States, the hot topic for the last several years has been the rising cost of health care. Consider that health care expenditures in the US were $3 trillion in 2014 and are
What do people have in common who have used analog clocks, vinyl records, and payphones? They were all probably born before 1980! Now, let's focus on those payphones!... A lot of young kids these days can't imagine a world where everyone doesn't have a wireless phone. My buddy Ed likes
Have you ever had problems matching data that has typographical errors in it? Because of the nature of arbitrary typos and incorrect spelled words a specific matching technique is required to tackle those cases. SAS Data Quality, with its traditional, in nature deterministic matching approach is by nature not best
Corrupción y fraude fiscal son dos temas que se encuentran en el foco de atención de la opinión pública. Casos como los “Panama Papers”, acusaciones de lavado de dinero en contra de la ex presidenta de Argentina, Cristina Fernández y la sentencia de la justicia chilena en el caso Mazza,
Meiner Meinung nach werden in Zukunft nur noch ergebnisorientierte Fragestellungen an eine Cloud gerichtet, die dann fallentsprechend beantwortet und abgerechnet werden. Die Cloud wird Mittel zum Zweck. Niemand fragt, ob Cloud oder nicht. Cloud-Technologie wird zur Basistechnologie. Warum? Weil sie billiger und gleichzeitig effizienter für Firmen ist. Denn neue Geschäftsmodelle
The annual SAS Analytics Conference is upon us again. This year it is known by a different name, Analytics Experience 2016, but the location, Las Vegas, is the same as it has been the previous two years. Just like last year, I will be attending and presenting on analytics for panel
Hadoop has driven an enormous amount of data analytics activity lately. And this poses a problem for many practitioners coming from the traditional relational database management system (RDBMS) world. Hadoop is well known for having lots of variety in the structure of data it stores and processes. But it's fair to
In an increasingly connected world, the automotive industry is embracing opportunities from the Connected Vehicle and Connected Dealer to reach the Connected Customer. At the recent Automotive Analytics Executive Forum, we heard terrific success stories and far-reaching experiments aimed at facilitating the best customer experiences whether buying a vehicle or getting
Yesterday I opened up the Wall Street Journal and found the usual mix of ads from major technology vendors touting their IoT (Internet of Things) prowess, and claiming they all have the secret sauce to make all of our IoT dreams come true. Where do I sign up?! Meanwhile, back
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Ob der Big Data-Hype schon vorbei ist oder nicht, sei dahingestellt: Big Data ist es jedenfalls nicht – und gibt immer noch genügend Gesprächspunkte für eine Blog-Serie. Im ersten Beitrag zum Thema Big Data Governance möchte ich auf den disruptiven Effekt von Big Data auf Unternehmen eingehen. Hier sind meiner
Many univariate descriptive statistics are intuitive. However, weighted statistic are less intuitive. A weight variable changes the computation of a statistic by giving more weight to some observations than to others. This article shows how to compute and visualize weighted percentiles, also known as a weighted quantiles, as computed by
Often I have written articles that are motivated by some question by a user on how to create a particular graph, or how to work around some shortcoming in the feature set to create the graph you need. This time, I got a question about Clinical Graphs that were mostly working
When I attended my first SAS conference in 2003 I was not only a first-timer, I was a first time presenter. Needless to say I was a bit nervous. I did not know what to expect. Was my topic good enough for these savvy programmers and statisticians? Well my first
Leading up to the Analytics Experience conference, we're going to explore the big trends, hot topics and what's ahead in the industry with some of the companies leading the way. I had the chance to interview David Septoff, CEO of Zencos to get his take on what you need to know about
Some organizations I visit don’t seem to have changed their analytics technology environment much since the early days of IT. I often encounter companies with 70s-era base statistical packages running on mainframes or large servers, data warehouses (originated in the 80s), and lots of reporting applications. These tools usually continue
First, if you landed on this topic because you encountered this SAS message: ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order. ...then I'll tell you right now: you've probably left off a semicolon in one of your SAS statements. If you're lucky, the SAS
En muchas ocasiones, el término Big Data es empleado genéricamente para referirse a la recolección y análisis a gran escala de grandes cantidades de datos. Sin embargo, en SAS contemplamos la definición de este concepto más allá del procesamiento de datos masivos y lo consideramos relativo al contexto y situación
Have you ever wondered how far you live from the closest nuclear power plant? I've crunched the numbers for cities here in the US, and created an interactive SAS map to help answer that question! The average age of US nuclear power plants is 35 years, and there just doesn't
Two years ago, I found myself the proud, first-time owner of a garage. My wife and I quickly started to add new items to the garage – a battery-powered lawn mower, two beach cruisers and four Tommy Bahama beach chairs. They were stored with ease. What a fantastic world I'd been missing out on. But it wasn't long before we outstripped our
Ich wette, dass bei einer Umfrage „Wer mag unstrukturierte Textdaten analysieren?“ die meisten antworten würden: „Ich eher nicht.“ Und das hat einen guten Grund. Denn diese Frage bedeutet: Wenn du unstrukturierte Daten in Textform analysierst, musst du viel Zeit mitbringen. Zeit für die manuelle Regelerstellung in Systemen wie Excel, Zeit
Hace algún tiempo compartíamos en este mismo espacio una serie de recomendaciones para implementar de manera acertada una estrategia de marketing móvil apoyándose para ese objetivo en la analítica y gestión de los datos. Muchos de esos consejos siguen siendo válidos, pero hoy debemos hablar de una evolución: la analítica
.@philsimon continues his series on data prep and anlytics.
As Zika starts spreading into the US, it will be important to have a way to track it. Therefore I wrote some SAS code to pull the latest data from the CDC website, and plot it on a map... But before we get into the details of my map, I
