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Heather Cartwright, General Manager of Microsoft Health, joined me to contemplate the new horizons in healthcare made possible by SAS and Microsoft’s new strategic partnership. The four walls of the doctor’s office are disappearing. Following decades of planning for hypotheticals, this year health care organizations were compelled to make good on the promise of digital transformation. Meeting the
Analytics can help to surface broad macro-scale issues about productivity, demand, and ideal methods of cultivation.
When my son started kindergarten last year, I was excited to embark on the lunchbox packing adventure. The year started out strong but about a month or two in, the novelty wore off. Sound familiar? While this school year looks very different for most of us, the dreaded school lunchbox
Welcome back! Today, I continue with part 2 of my series on building custom applications on SAS Viya. The goal of this series is to discuss securely integrating custom-written applications into your SAS Viya platform. In the first installment of this series, I outlined my experiences on a recent project.
La migración de una operación analítica a la nube abre un amplio abanico de ventajas para las organizaciones: procesamiento y análisis de datos para encontrar las respuestas a sus problemas de negocio más apremiantes, tomar las decisiones más informadas posibles, e identificar oportunidades para crecer, innovar y ser rentables. Les
This blog is reposted from March 2015. Many of our kids are dealing with high levels of anxiety related to the pandemic and online school so it seems like a good time to re-post it. I recently read an article I loved on how to explain anxiety to children. Even
Mit der TU Darmstadt, TU München und Uni Frankfurt im Dialog (Harald Holzer, Sönke Bästlein, Holger Patzelt).
Inclusion and diversity are strengths. The SAS company culture is built on a foundation of caring for one another and holding ourselves and others accountable. That includes recognition and accountability for where we can improve. Our work of inclusivity is evolving and continuous. We must frequently re-examine the way we speak, act
Local government gets some bad press. There is no doubt that some could be better, but many are strongly focused on delivering high-quality services for their citizens. However, these "good news" stories seldom make the press – even in local newspapers in slow weeks. Like most public sector organisations around
Los días de compras diferenciadas -como los días sin IVA llevados a cabo en varios países latinoamericanos y los que aún hay programados por ejemplo en Colombia para septiembre- deben dejarnos experiencias y aprendizajes. Es cierto que hay que seguir reforzando los controles de bioseguridad y que cuidar la salud
As COVID-19 began to spread rapidly, curious minds from across the company were tapped to create analytic models to help – fast. “In the early stages of the pandemic, SAS created a companywide internal organization with the goal of providing analytics to help combat the pandemic. The COVID-10 Science Advisory
Matrix balancing is an interesting problem that has a long history. Matrix balancing refers to adjusting the cells of a frequency table to match known values of the row and column sums. One of the early algorithms for matrix balancing is known as the RAS algorithm, but it is also
La desinformación y las fake news constituyen hoy en día una de las principales amenazas para la libertad de información y el pensamiento crítico de la sociedad. En épocas de gran incertidumbre, como la derivada de la pandemia del COVID-19, las fake news pueden llegar a tener consecuencias aún más
Muchos de los procesos de transformación digital que venían desarrollando las empresas se han visto acelerados como consecuencia de la pandemia vivida en el mundo este año. La transformación hacia lo digital vivida durante este año, la abrupta llegada de muchos al comercio electrónico, descubrir que no hacen falta oficinas
This blog post, inspired by my work on this topic with a SAS customer, focuses on how to create and use locale-specific informats to read in numeric values from a Microsoft Excel file and then transform them into SAS character values. I incorporated this step into a macro that transforms ones and zeroes from the Excel file into meaningful information for multilingual readers.