A recent post, Jedi SAS Tricks: The DATA to DATA Step Macro, engendered a lot of response on Twitter. One of the re-tweets included a call to action - make this a button in Base SAS!
In a previous blog, I discussed SAS date and time values, and how date and time formats can be used to your advantage in SAS Visual Analytics. That blog addressed some of the features provided for handling date information, like date formats, date hierarchies, and calculated data items based on time
The Barnett Shale in North Texas hit a historic mark on April 25: Its rig count fell to zero. Two hundred rigs once harvested the 40 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in this massive basin, stretching beneath 17 Texas counties. Today, nothing. This dramatic silence in North America’s second-largest
Cada año SAS reúne a miles de usuarios y colaboradores de diferentes países, para hablar sobre tendencias, innovación y tecnología, con la finalidad de exponer a los equipos a toda esta información, capacitarlos y así poder incrementar su desempeño, para generar metodologías internas cada vez más interesantes y adaptadas a
No importa el tamaño de su organización, usted necesita una solución que le permita explorar todos los datos relevantes que se generan a diario de forma rápida y sencilla, descubriendo oportunidades ocultas e identificando relaciones clave. Todo con el objetivo de tomar las mejores decisiones de manera inmediata y precisa.
W cyfrowych czasach analiza danych jest już nie tyle koniecznością, ale codziennym zadaniem każdej firmy. Skuteczność i prawność procesów podejmowania decyzji ma kluczowy wpływ na to, czy organizacja odniesie sukces, czy porażkę. Wykorzystanie zaawansowanej analityki w celu uzyskania jak najlepszych rekomendacji w procesach biznesowych stało się nowym i bardzo skutecznym narzędziem
At SAS Global Forum in Las Vegas I was asked the question, “What does PROC REPORT do?” It is a simple question, but I hesitated to answer. I’m normally so deep inside the nitty gritty details of PROC REPORT that I don’t often think about what it would be like
As American football teams prepare to select new team members later today, fans and pundits can only guess how the draft will turn out. Will your favorite professional team make good picks? And will your favorite college players go to good teams? With high stakes and billions of possible outcomes,
Look at the report below. Imagine being asked to allow your users to select which Measure, highlighted in yellow, they are looking at: Income, Expense or Profit. This is a frequent report requirement and I’m going to outline just one of the ways you can design your report to satisfy
The expletive leapt from the lips of the orthopedic surgeon as he entered my hospital room. He was swathed in a green gown, purple gloves, and a white surgical mask – for his protection, not mine. He was clearly upset. “What, exactly, does $#@! mean?” I asked. “It means you’re
Small causes can have large effects; or how a discovery in the Barnett Shale can spike some interest in the rest of the world and change the face of the industry. This article is co-written by Sylvie Jacquet-Faucillon, Senior Analytics Presales Consultant, SAS France; and David Dozoul, Senior Adviser
It's a common problem in any industry: getting a large number of similar requests for information. But with limited resources and an already overburdened staff, how do you handle it? At El Paso Community College, analysts from the Institutional Research (IR) team enlisted the help of IT to create a data
In my last post we started to look at two different Internet of Things (IoT) paradigms. The first only involved streaming automatically generated data from machines (such as sensor data). The second combined human-generated and machine-generated data, such as social media updates that are automatically augmented with geo-tag data by
These: Zum Daten-MAN-gen braucht man Software. Hat man mehr Daten, nimmt man mehr Software… „Mehr vom selben!“ – jener Kulturtechnik aus der Ecke „viel hilft viel“. Stimmt das so? Man kann dies‘ knifflige Thema von verschiedenen Seiten beleuchten – im Folgenden einige mehr oder minder ernste Ansätze dazu:
Cinco de Mayo is a little over a week away, ole! Simply translated to the “fifth of May,” for most of us Cinco de Mayo doesn’t mean much more than a great excuse to have fun with friends while indulging in nachos, burritos and of course margaritas!
My previous post highlighted presentations at SAS Global Forum 2016 that heavily used SAS/IML software. Several of the authors clearly want to share their work with the wider SAS analytical community. They include their SAS/IML program in an appendix or mention a web site or email address from which the
Contrary to popular belief, it is okay to: 1.Let yourself feel emotions other than happiness. Happiness is great. I love happiness. But to feel happy 100% of your life is not human. Happiness doesn’t mean denying other feelings like frustration, sadness, disappointment, etc. It takes some confidence and skill to allow yourself to feel
Beim Predictive Modellig erstrebt man gute (d.h. möglichst trennscharfe) Risiko/Chancen Scores mittels “des besten Modells”. Dieses wendet man auf neue Daten an, um ausgewählten Risikoklassen bestimmte Maßnahmen zukommen zu lassen. In dieser Standardsituation kommt eine große Auswahl an Machine Learning und Data Mining Verfahren für die Modellierung zur Anwendung. In
This is the first out of a series of two blog articles in which I will attempt to discuss the importance of the execution of the principles of the BCBS 239 in the Banks. I feel that a Bank’s risk management department is like a radar on a ship. It
Over the years I have written many blogs about insurance fraud including those on anti-money laundering, data quality in fraud, anti-fraud technology, life insurance fraud and even ghost broking. It’s clear that insurance fraud comes in many shapes and sizes and as losses continue to grow, detecting and preventing fraud
Neulich habe ich mit Kollegen die kleinen, feinen Unterschiede diskutiert, die es innerhalb sehr fein definierter Kundensegmente gibt. Da ist mir die Werbung einer amerikanischen Bank wieder eingefallen: Sie zeigt Bilder von eineiigen Zwillingen, die einen Altersunterschied von nur zehn Minuten haben. Die Werbung zeigte, welch große Auswirkungen selbst eine
Right now, National Health Service (NHS) managers and clinicians in the UK are under phenomenal pressure to find big efficiency savings while improving the value of services to patients. Many in the NHS see integrated care as the answer. But the first step is finding innovative ways to increase the
When was the last time an informational graph or chart caught your eye? I mean, really caught your eye in a way that made you want to emblazon it on a greeting card or frame it for your office? What’s that…never? Me neither, until I had the opportunity to see
I was sad to hear that one of my favorite singers, Prince, died last week. This blog post describes a graph I created to show his legacy. Prince was at the height of his popularity when I was in high school and college, which were the formative years for much of
Inventory is a result of decisions. Inventory is not the problem... the problem is the decisions. I recently had an interesting conversation with the VP, Supply Chain at a leading global manufacturer. He is not happy with the results from the inventory optimization he is using. He was told inventory optimization
Everyone in health care is talking about data and analytics these days and the vendor world has shifted into overdrive. So what is really going on in the trenches, and what does this mean for the future? Does this mean that we will finally find the holy grail of information-driven
Everyone in health care is talking about data and analytics these days and the vendor world has shifted into overdrive. So what is really going on in the trenches, and what does this mean for the future? Does this mean that we will finally find the holy grail of information-driven
.@philsimon on what to do when the data breaks bad.
SAS® Real-Time Decision Manager es una de las soluciones que la multinacional ofrece al sector de las telecomunicaciones para detectar de forma automática las necesidades de sus clientes y elaborar estrategias de marketing que cumplan con sus expectativas. A nivel mundial, la industria de las telecomunicaciones es un sector muy
It’s almost impossible to avoid election coverage right now, no matter how hard you try. If you’re like me, you’re fleeing to the safety of South Africa’s recently launched Netflix in to order avoid the coverage of the US primaries currently dominating international TV and print news, or South Africa’s
