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Data Management | Data Visualization

Vincent CotteFebruary 21, 2013 0

Overcoming the Top Four Challenges to More Effective Decision Making With Data Visualisation

Our recent innovations into Data Visualisation have led us to be inundated and involved in lots of conversations with customers and prospects looking to benefit from the marriage of advanced analytics, visualisation, data management and simplicity. Greg and Minh delved into the benefits that this marriage can yield and why data visualisation should form an

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization

Waynette TubbsFebruary 8, 2013 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Visualization lets them 'see' the data

Were you at SAS Global Forum last spring? Dr. Goodnight sat down at a computer console and personally demonstrated the cool things that SAS® Visual Analytics Explorer can do? Take a look at his demo, and then imagine working in a drag-and-drop, point and click environment with billions of rows

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Analytics

Bill ColemanDecember 12, 2012 0

Analytics key to law enforcement gold standard

Police Departments across the country are under constant scrutiny by elected officials, the media and the public to reduce crime, control costs, engage the public, always be accessible and, most important, always be courteous and professional. Police departments that demonstrate excellence in these areas can achieve accreditation by The Commission

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Analytics

Krisa TailorNovember 28, 2012 0

All-Payer Claims Databases set stage for data-driven healthcare and big analytics

If you haven’t heard of an APCD, it’s one of those acronyms you need to know. All-Payer Claims Databases are simply databases that consist of claims data from all health care payers in a given state. This includes private payers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield, and public payers such

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 29, 2012 0

Will there be analytics for Frankenstorm?

“Frankenstorm” is what the U.S. National Weather Service is calling the combination of Hurricane Sandy, an early winter storm heading east, and a blast of arctic air from the North. SAS headquarters is located in the middle of the U.S. east coast ... and we barely missed being the bulls-eye for this

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Radhika KulkarniOctober 5, 2012 0

An invitation to look inside advanced analytics at SAS

A year ago I set out to periodically blog from my perspective of leading R&D for our advanced analytics software. I invited SAS colleagues who also work in various areas of advanced analytics to blog on their own interesting conversations with each other and with customers about the intersection of

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Larry LaRussoJune 25, 2012 0

Data and data crunchers rule: Analytics 2012

Unlike many of you, data hasn’t always ruled my world. Though I took statistics and economics classes in college, I built my academic career around studying history and writing papers like “The Importance of the Family Dinner in Preserving the Italian Culture among Immigrants.” Don’t laugh; it earned me an

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Data Management

Faye MerridethJune 13, 2012 0

Building a culture of analytics one employee at a time

SAS customers are both bright and generous. Recently, I met several who gathered to discuss SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS Model Manager predictive analytics and data mining software. Hiring the best I loved listening to their discussion on what they look for and how they find the people who will

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Don ChapmanMay 23, 2012 0

How to make data visualization more intuitive with auto charting

Last year I was given an iPad. At the time I was rather ho-hum about my new toy, but my fourteen-year-old daughter was ecstatic about it. I now know why. Today, I am writing this blog post from my iPad and I am lost when I leave it at home.

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Analytics

April 25, 2012 0

The value of high-performance analytics

Like Vince said a few days ago, you don’t have to be Goliath to see how the intersection of big data and high performance analytics creates competitive advantage. Let’s also be realistic though: compared to someone like Walmart, pretty much everyone’s David! While Telstra and the Commonwealth Bank may not be the largest companies by global measures, they’re still

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David BassApril 17, 2012 0

Documentation for high-performance analytics

We are surrounded by massive quantities of data, and somewhere in there is the information that your organization needs. But being able to perform complex analysis on huge amounts of data isn’t enough – the analysis needs to take place quickly enough for you to be able to act on

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Advanced Analytics

Radhika KulkarniApril 3, 2012 0

Accelerating the pace to high-performance analytics

I can’t believe all that has happened in the 7 months since I last blogged about high-performance analytics, so I’m back to give you some updates from SAS R&D. The energy around this area keeps growing as more of our developers adopt the new high-performance architecture and target their developments

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Jennifer MarchiMarch 28, 2012 0

Picture this: The power of analytics extended to everyone in your organization

In my last blog post I revealed the WOW factor of SAS Visual Analytics. In summary: analyzing billions of rows of data, across vast numbers of columns, via 100+ correlation calculations in SECONDS (wow). What exactly does that mean? SAS Visual Analytics takes full advantage of SAS’ high-performance analytics technology.

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Analytics | Risk Management

Leo SadovyMarch 28, 2012 0

Conversational analytics

When you begin your career your most important skills are your hard, technical skills; the finance and accounting, the statistics and economics, the physics and chemistry, the engineering and calculus. But as I tell my business school mentees, as your career progresses, the emphasis changes such that much sooner than

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Analytics | Data Management

Rachel Alt-SimmonsMarch 13, 2012 0

The path to lean analytics

In my role at SAS I have the great fortune to meet with business intelligence and analytic (BI&A) teams all across the United States to share and discuss best practices and pain points, particularly around the ability to execute and operationalize insight internally and externally throughout the organization. In these

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Analytics

Kristine VickFebruary 28, 2012 0

SAS storyboards meetup at Predictive Analytics World

Several of us are heading out to San Francisco over the weekend for Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World running as part of Data Driven Business Week March 3-10 at the Marriott Marquis. If you're attending, we invite you to book your appointment with a SAS expert during Predictive Analytics

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Analytics | Data Management

David StewartFebruary 28, 2012 0

Analytics comes to AML, what RAD wants to know!

There have been a lot of retrospectives marking the 10th anniversary of the USA PATRIOT Act, but I think what is most compelling is how dissatisfied the industry is with the status quo . KPMG’s ‘Global Anti-Money Laundering Survey 2011’ confirmed a number of trends: cost of compliance increased 45

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Analytics

Shelley Sessoms

Shelley SessomsFebruary 23, 2012 0

Time to tell your analytics story

Predictive Analytics World is a little over a week away. I hope you’re planning to be in San Francisco for this exciting conference. This is the first time that SAS Publishing will participate in the event, and I am really looking forward to it. We’re teaming up with the Analytics

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Advanced Analytics

Malene HaxholdtJanuary 13, 2012 0

How will analytics rock your world in 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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Analytics

Pamela MeekNovember 2, 2011 0

Jim Goodnight speaks on business analytics at Kelley School of Business

In the last year, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight and a group of R&D, Education, Sales and Marketing executives visited several universities that are in the early stages of adopting analytics within their business programs. To that effort, Goodnight addressed faculty and students at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business on

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Student posters at Analytics 2011

Kelly LevoyerOctober 31, 2011 0

Students showcase analytics research

One great element of SAS’ Analytics2011 conference (not a SAS Users Group conference, but a great place for SAS users to find information about using SAS) is how it gives students a platform to showcase their work in analytics. Every year, hundreds of posters are submitted outlining innovative applications and research

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Analytics

Kelly LevoyerOctober 25, 2011 0

Procter & Gamble's Pixel Room dedicates space for analytics

There’s no shortage at SAS’ analytics conference A2011 of discussions around statistical modeling and optimization techniques. Kevin Norwood from Procter & Gamble, for example, discussed his company’s use of clustering, optimization and data visualization to answer questions like, “How do we reformulate our detergents when faced with an ingredient shortage?

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Shelley Sessoms

Shelley SessomsOctober 17, 2011 0

Recruiting authors at Analytics 2011

Where will you be Oct. 24 and 25? I will be in sunny, warm Orlando, with hundreds of like-minded folks, at the Analytics 2011 conference. It’s certainly not the first time I’ve talked with SAS customers about analytic topics. In fact, we have a number of analytics books in the

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Analytics

Beverly BrownAugust 29, 2011 0

Analytics advocate: don't be "that" guy

Nobody wants to rub people the wrong way. We've all done it, even if word never got back to us that it happened. Having ample first-hand experience with this, I deeply appreciated the opening keynote by MIT's Michael Schrage at the 2011 Disney Analytics & Optimization Summit. Schrage, research fellow

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Tammi Kay GeorgeAugust 8, 2011 0

How to become more agile with mobile and visualization technologies

Agility. I've been giving a lot of thought to the term while here in San Diego for the TDWI World Conference. "Evolving Your Agile BI Environment" is the theme of this year's event and "agility" has definitely been embedded in the conversations I have had with customers the past few

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Analytics

Kristine VickJune 28, 2011 0

How to make an impact with analytics

Contributed by Bob Messier, Senior Director of Business Analytics, SAS Last week I participated in the SAS Power Series event in Minneapolis. It included about 23-30 folks representing a broad range of industries. Analytics was the central topic of the event. What is analytics? How do you get your organization

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rachel Alt-SimmonsJune 22, 2011 0

Visualize your thoughts with a mind map!

I have recently discovered “mind mapping.” Mind mapping is not a new concept, but since I (re)learned it, I’ve found it to be an excellent tool for analyzing business problems and processes. I thought you might find it interesting too! Here’s an example: The other day, I was thinking about

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rachel Alt-SimmonsJune 20, 2011 0

Making the jump to visual thinking

The SAS office in New York City has one of the best views in the city. Sitting on the 47th floor of a skyscraper on 7th Avenue, the Executive Briefing Room overlooks Central Park and it has a highly distracting view – especially on such a nice sunny day. What

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Analytics

Kristine VickMarch 9, 2011 0

Come to AnalyticsCamp this Saturday in Chapel Hill

My colleague I-Kong Fu introduced me and several of other SAS colleagues to Nathan Gilliat, co-founder of AnalyticsCamp, which is an unconference for analytics. Whatever flavor of analytics you work with—web, email, social media, marketing, big enterprise BI, you name it—this is the place to meet and learn from interesting

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Analytics

Robert LathamJanuary 26, 2011 0

The role of analytics in bio-preparedness

I have recently had the great opportunity to be a part of a very special project called the North Carolina Bio-Preparedness Collaborative (NCB-Prepared) It is a public-private partnership that includes the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), North Carolina State University, and SAS, with support from the US

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