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SAS' Courtney Ambrozic highlights how to use SAS VDMML to assess lesion response to chemotherapy for patients with colorectal liver cancer.
SAS' Courtney Ambrozic highlights how to use SAS VDMML to assess lesion response to chemotherapy for patients with colorectal liver cancer.
Amid historical and structural barriers, “quality cancer treatment for all” is a simple credo that is not easy to put into action. Cancer is recognized as a leading cause of death, accounting for more than 10 million deaths globally in 2020, according to the World Health Organization. Globally, people with
A team of SAS employees recently participated in a data-for-good project focusing on forest fires in the Amazon. In conjunction with the Amazon Conservation Association (ACA), the team explored options to collect and analyze publicly available imagery and fire data to better understand the drivers for forest fires as well
See how analytics fights back against ever-changing fraud trends.
Industries including sports and entertainment, travel, manufacturing, education and government benefit from analytical insights In the United States and other parts of the world, there are signs. Record automobile traffic. Surging demand for workers. And a continued push to vaccinate. The pandemic and its effects are still very much with
SAS Analytics Pro is an easy-to-use, yet powerful package for accessing, manipulating, analyzing and presenting information. It lets organizations improve productivity with all the tools and methods needed for desktop data analysis – in one package.
Curious about how the COVID-19 vaccine has impacted the world around you? This SAS Viya powered data visualization shows information related to the COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the United States. Here's what you can learn from this dashboard. Percentage of vaccinated Americans In August 2021, the CDC reported that over 50% of
Editor's note: Jack Liu is a member of SAS Analytics Explorers, a SAS community that is dedicated to exploring analytics, sharing knowledge, having fun and helping SAS users in their careers. Members were recently invited to share their analytics journeys, and Jack responded with his impressive story. If you're a
In our previous section of the series we discussed the impact of missingness and techniques to address this. In this final section of the series we look at how we can use drag-and-drop tools to accelerate our EDA. As mentioned at the beginning of this series, SAS Viya offers multiple
When people think about sports, many things may come to mind: Screaming fans, the intensity of the game and maybe even the food. Data doesn’t usually make the list. But what people may not realize is that data is behind everything people love about sports. It can help determine how
Underperforming schools can cast a shadow over the community. Not only do students suffer, but the downstream effects of poor performance can be felt across school funding, teacher retention, morale and the local economy. When one of the top 20 K-12 school districts in the US received a “C” ranking
Throughout its history, the United States has invested in infrastructure that leverages new technologies and helps society and its economy thrive. With the advent of trains in the early 1800s, four of the country’s five transcontinental railroads were built with assistance from the federal government. When cars replaced horses and
We need, in other words, to democratise analytics in the true sense of the word, by making them accessible to everyone.
Hippocrates once said, “Let food be thy medicine.” For food vendors, this advice could be communicated another way: Stock more fresh fruit, protein and vegetables. The periphery of the grocery store has led in the expansion of revenues – namely within produce, but also spanning seafood, bakery products and ready-to-eat
In the second of two posts spotlighting SAS R&D innovators, SAS' Udo Sglavo interviews Chris Barefoot, Matthew Galati, Courtney Ambrozic and Davood Hajinezhad.
Predictive models and medical image analysis have the potential to transform health care delivery. To accelerate innovative approaches in health analytics, teams around the world are participating in a global hackathon. In scientific communities, it's well-known that the fastest way to drive progress and discover new ideas is collaboration with
In the first of two posts spotlighting SAS R&D innovators, SAS' Udo Sglavo introduces you to developers Amy Shi, Maggie Du and Phil Helmkamp.
Dutch project aims to increase safety of gall bladder surgery Predictive models and medical image analysis have the potential to transform health care delivery today. To accelerate the innovative approaches, teams around the world are converging in a global hackathon as organized by SAS to advance the field of health
SAS Conversation Designer is available with every offering that also includes SAS Visual Analytics. Users can easily access Visual Text Analytics capabilities from SAS Conversation Designer with minimum additional configuration.
The management of the COVID-19 vaccination program is one of the most complex tasks in modern history. Even without the added complications of administering the vaccine during a pandemic, the race to vaccinate the populations who need it most all while maintaining the necessary cold-storage protocols, meeting double dose requirements,
Often, when a cybersecurity incident occurs, the clues to how it happened and who caused it are hidden in network data. In the example discussed here, data scientists were asked to identify who caused a global internet outage by examining a large graph of network data with data visualization. This
[Editor's note: This post was co-authored with Fritz Lehman, COO of Zencos] In 1976, the blockbuster movie Jaws was the number one grossing film. Why? Because it had a great villain – the great white shark. The movie told a vivid (and all too familiar) story about plans gone awry
At SAS, we believe analytics is the force that drives change across organizations. Today, as change has been further accelerated, digital transformation is happening faster than anyone planned. Amid these advances, the use of analytics has become even more crucial, especially as a role in mission-critical applications. In 2020, even
Text analytics: Theoretically, a telecoms company, say, could use topic modelling to look at product reviews divided into themes.
In the future this kind of data analysis can help to make an even better exoskeleton!
What analytics architecture is needed to support an accelerator? I have recently been working with my colleague Jussi Martikka to extract lessons from the City of Helsinki’s AI Experimentation Accelerator work. We used the steps of the accelerator process to define the analytics architecture needed. This was a useful way
The Text Investigation Framework utilizes several technologies built on SAS Viya, including SAS Visual Text Analytics, SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning, and SAS Visual Investigator. SAS Visual Investigator acts as the orchestrator to surface the results. With its broad set of capabilities, SAS Visual Investigator can perform scenario authoring, alert generation and disposition, and comprehensive workflow to gather vital outcomes and feedback.
Through our new strategic partnership, SAS and Microsoft are helping the public sector realize the power of analytics in the cloud. I spoke with Daniel Sumner, Worldwide Director of Smart Infrastructure at Microsoft, to explore the possibilities of more robust analytics and cloud strategies in government — and the technology
Analytics is playing an increasingly strategic role in the ongoing digital transformation of organizations today. However, to succeed and scale your digital transformation efforts, it is critical to enable analytics skills at all tiers of your organization. In a recent blog post covering 4 principles of analytics you cannot ignore,
As the Virtual SAS® Global Forum 2020 is running live online, we have a guest blog post today from Udo Sglavo, Vice President of Analytics R&D at SAS. Udo is a long time colleague and co-editor (with me and Len Tashman) of Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions. In this