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Joseph Woodside discusses the use of using ensemble modeling in SAS for fraud detection and readmissions.

Creative government workforce approaches come in many forms. Some time ago, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offered employees an interesting choice to incentivize them to stay. Employees could either telework from home one day per week or receive $1,000. As Jon Lemon, principal industry consultant at SAS told the

Eight years ago, I fell in love with road cycling. You could say that I found myself on those early morning quiet country roads as I pedaled away the mind clutter of the week. Cycling quickly became my meditation in motion. At the end of a strong 50-mile ride on

Recently a SAS programmer wanted to obtain a table of counts that was based on a histogram. I showed him how you can use the OUTHIST= option on the HISTOGRAM statement in PROC UNIVARIATE to obtain that information. For example, the following call to PROC UNIVARIATE creates a histogram for

It might snow this weekend here at the SAS headquarters! This would be the first snow of the season for us, and it got me thinking about snow again (see some of my previous blog posts about snow). Apparently these thoughts have manifested themselves in my computer graphics work ...

La devastación que provocó la crisis financiera de hace una década, que alcanzó a las principales economías del mundo y contagió al resto, dio origen a modificaciones y actualizaciones en las Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera (NIIF). En particular, me centraré en la NIIF 9 (o IFRS 9, International Financial

Find out how to kick-start your volunteering and leadership skills at SAS Global Forum.

My sister flew in to visit me a couple of weeks ago. She had recently retired and told me she was allocating some of her expanded leisure time to do “death cleaning”. I—the person who had a funeral folder at age 19—was understandably intrigued! A stimulating conversation ensued. The concept

Nicht erst im Zeitalter von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) und Real-Time Decision Engines werden historische und aktuelle Verhaltensweisen von Kunden analysiert. Die Praxis, anhand dieser Informationen Entscheidungen zu treffen und sie in Echtzeit auf die Kundeninteraktion anzuwenden, gab es bereits in den 1970er-Jahren. Frau Cerny betrieb den Lebensmittelladen im Wohnhaus meiner

When a Visual Analytics 8.3 report moves on a screen from one page to the next – all by itself, without a human hovering over a keyboard – you're seeing the Report Playback feature of SAS Visual Analytics Viewer 8.3 in action. Reasons for using visual movement Playable dashboards are

Ich muss gestehen: ich bin leidenschaftlicher Gamer. Man könnte auch sagen, ein „Nerd“. Ich liebe Computerspiele, nicht nur, sie zu spielen, sondern ich möchte auch wissen, wie sie gemacht werden, wie sie funktionieren und wohin die Entwicklung in Zukunft führen wird. Ganz besonders interessiert mich, wie künstliche Intelligenz in Spielen

In this blog series, we’ve spoken directly to professors to find out why it’s so important to teach analytics, their advice for students, and to learn how they create interest in analytics programs at their universities. For this third and final post, we’ll hear how SAS has played a role

A conversation with my mentor has always stuck in my mind: Teaching is not about me, directly, it’s about serving my students. Teaching is about providing each of my students what they need to learn the material and to grow academically and as an individual. Teaching is about student learning.

Data scientists need good skills in communication, data mining, data wrangling and more. Joyce Norris-Montanari explains.

What defines your relationship with the company you choose to work for? Is it a collection of moments and experiences? Or is it the people? For I-Sah Hsieh that connection can be traced back to one moment in time and tied back to one person. Loyalty experienced like never before Ten