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I’m Tahseen (better known as Tazz around the SAS Africa offices) and I am a recent intern-turned-permanent SAS employee in the Customer Advisory Academy! My interest in the field of analytics coupled with the attractive internship opportunity brought me to SAS, and I’m so glad it did! The internship was
This series of videos spotlights a very powerful API that lets you use Python while also having access to the power of SAS Deep Learning.
"Take care of yourself!" Sound like something you hear often? This instruction may conjure up fixed ideals of what "taking care" means: getting to the gym, making smoothies, meditating, or getting more sleep. But gym memberships aren’t for everyone, not everyone has a blender, and we may not be able
"Senior managers adore their dashboards. Are they really capable of understanding what they indicate? I have my doubts!"
"Artificial intelligence? Creates jobs? I admit it is far more usual to hear apocalyptic predictions that AI will destroy jobs. Is that true?"
In this blog, I use data from the U. S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons (TIP) reports for the years 2013-2017 to accomplish these objectives: 1) To determine what are the main themes in TIP reports, and 2) to show how to work with ASTORE code to deploy models using SAS Viya 3.4 Visual Text Analytics 8.4.
The SAS Global Forum 2020 call for content is open until Sept. 30, 2019. Are you thinking of submitting a paper? If so, we have a few tips adapted from The Global English Style Guide that will help your paper shine. By following Global English guidelines, your writing will be
"Once an attack is discovered, the average #cybercrime victim in the UK spends 14.8 hours dealing with the aftermath. These are worrying facts."
College graduates are eager to switch the tassel from student to professional, but a career for young professionals today requires more than a place to use their skills and pay the bills. Pauline Ashcraft, a Senior Associate Business Operations Specialist for SAS, knows what it means to find a career
Although I do not typically blog about undocumented SAS options, I'll make an exception this time. For many years, I have known that the CONTENTS and COMPARE procedures support the BRIEF and SHORT options, but I always forget which option goes with which procedure. For the record, here are the
The machine learning autogenerated concept and fact rules in VTA 8.4 facilitate the process of developing LITI rules to extract and find information in text documents. There are many important problems where the use of Text Analytics provides valuable insights such as with Human Trafficking.
Forming a significant theme in several organisational technology strategies, AI can augment a gamut of business practices, including compliance. Compliance is a must-do activity, not a nice-to-have. It is essential that companies extract maximum value from compliance processes, reducing the possibility of it being considered a cost centre. Technological innovation
Put simply, data literacy is the ability to derive meaning from data. That seems like a straightforward proposition, but, in truth, finding relationships in data can be fraught with complexities, including: Understanding where the data came from, including the lineage or source of that data. Ensuring that the data meet compliance
Anyone who might have stumbled across my previous musings will already know that I am a great fan of studying the history of technology and its evolution. And where we might indeed be in the not too distant future. I’m of course a proper sci-fi nut, avid (and my wife
Could data governance policies for analytics be the foundation for a model governance program?