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Versicherungen arbeiten intensiv daran, ihre Geschäftsmodelle zu erneuern. Ein modernisiertes Aktuariat spielt dabei eine Schlüsselrolle. Warum? Das habe ich meinen Kollegen und ausgebildeten Aktuar Diego Rivas gefragt. Das Versicherungsgeschäft wirkt von außen wie ein langer, ruhiger Fluss. Trügt der Schein? Heute – eindeutig ja. Der Markt ist längst gesättigt, und
Data-driven is a buzzword again. It feels new and shiny but has been around for years. Yet, people still ask what it means to be data-driven. If you wonder why it’s important to be data-driven, you might ask your bookie. Yes, I said your bookie. In thinking about when I
Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray It might come true. Oh, wouldn't it be nice? The Beach Boys Months ago, I wrote about how to use the EFFECT statement in SAS to perform regression with restricted cubic splines. This is the modern way to use splines
This is the second post in my series about a computer vision project I worked on at SAS. In my previous post, I talked about my initial research and excitement for the project. In this post, I’ll talk about how I refined my goals and got started with the project
Beginning with SAS® 9.4, you can embed graphics output within HTML output using the ODS HTML5 destination. This technique works with SAS/GRAPH® procedures (such as GPLOT and GCHART), SG procedures (such as SGPLOT and SGRENDER), and when you create graphics output with ODS Graphics enabled. Most (if not all) existing
With the US census coming in 2020, I've decided to sharpen my skills at graphing census data. And today I'm working on creating a population pyramid chart to analyze the age and gender distribution. Follow along if you'd like to see how to create such a chart ... or jump
불과 몇 년 전 까지만 해도 ‘데이터 사이언티스트’라는 단어는 많은 사람들에게 꽤나 생소한 단어였을 것입니다. 하지만 4차 산업혁명이 이미 산업 전반에 깊숙이 자리한 오늘날, 빅데이터 분석이 핵심 역량으로 부상하며 데이터 과학자(data scientist)의 인지도 역시 굉장히 높아졌습니다. 단순히 인지도뿐만이 아닙니다. 세계 최대 취업 정보 사이트 글래스도어(Glassdoor)가 발표한 2019년 ‘미국 최고 직업
Each week in February, your Work/Life team has invited therapists and dating professionals in the community to respond to questions about relationships. For our second blog in this series, we asked our experts... How do you prepare your children to have authentic romantic relationships? Kate Freiman-Fox, Ph.D. Matchmaking, Date and
SAS has worked with our exam delivery partners to integrate a live lab into an exam, which can be delivered anywhere, anytime, on-demand.
With or without food? Morning, midday or evening? How should I take my supplements? How and when you take supplements is just as important as which supplements you take. The timing and quality of supplements determine how many nutrients your body is actually able to absorb and use.
When you use maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) to find the parameter estimates in a generalized linear regression model, the Hessian matrix at the optimal solution is very important. The Hessian matrix indicates the local shape of the log-likelihood surface near the optimal value. You can use the Hessian to estimate
This Is the third and final installment of a series of posts discussing promising use cases in retail and the benefits of adopting IoT technologies in 2019. What will be the ground-breaking new application of IoT and analytics that drives an epiphany and spurs widespread adoption? In previous posts, I discussed
Multi-tenancy is one of the exciting new capabilities of SAS Viya. Because it is so new, there is quite a lot of misinformation going around about it. I would like to offer you five key things to know about multi-tenancy before implementing a project using this new paradigm. All tenants
This episode covers one of the greatest challenges in Dutch data science: how to distribute €43 billion (no, that’s not a typo) among all Dutch health care insurers in a fair, equal and transparent way. To learn more, I visited the biggest health insurer of the country, Zilveren Kruis, and