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When describing their business model, our customer, Epipoli (one of the leading gift card companies in Europe), tells the story of the ancient Limoncello makers of Italy. Limoncello is an intensely lemon-flavored liqueur famously produced in Sorrento, the Amalfi coast, and the island of Capri. The drink started as a local tradition, but quickly
Se promueve como el fin de semana más esperado, creado para reactivar la economía de México: el Buen Fin, que en su versión 2018 se celebra del 16 al 19 de noviembre. De acuerdo con la Secretaría de Economía (SE), se prevé que la derrama económica de este año supere
The US 'midterm' elections have finally started to wind down, and we finally have some (mostly) finalized results to study. But what's the best way to visualize who won the US congressional seats in each of the 435 districts? Let's dive into this topic!... Preparation For starters, I couldn't find
JSON is a popular format for data exchange between APIs and some modern databases. It's also used as a way to archive audit logs in many systems. Because JSON can represent hierarchical relationships of data fields, many people consider it to be superior to the CSV format -- although it's
Joseph Woodside shares examples of applied experimental learning in healthcare from his book, "Applied Health Analytics and Informatics Using SAS".
Prior to distributed DATA Step, DATA Step programmers never had to think about achieving repeatable results because DATA Step ran single-threaded and the source SAS7BDAT dataset was stored on disk. But if you need to obtain repeatable results in DATA Step code that runs distributed in CAS, this post provides a workaround that you'll want to keep handy.
Teenagers. I have three boys, and two of them are teenagers. 15 year-old Kav is my middle son, and he gave me permission to share his story here. When he was five, Kav was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes, and I'm in awe of how he's accepted this challenging, lifelong
We all know that vegetables are good for us and there are literally thousands of studies over decades of research that tell us this. And many of us know that we don’t eat enough of them. Full of antioxidants, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals and fiber- things your body NEEDS!- vegetables are
An ROC curve graphically summarizes the tradeoff between true positives and true negatives for a rule or model that predicts a binary response variable. An ROC curve is a parametric curve that is constructed by varying the cutpoint value at which estimated probabilities are considered to predict the binary event.
In many grocery stores throughout the country, the acronym “WIC” accompanies a number of the food items on the shelves. The letters stand for the federal “Women, Infants and Children” program that provides nutritional food to pregnant women and their young children who are in need. While this is a
SAS is launching the SAS Student Series, which bundles thousands of dollars’ worth of training and certification materials into an affordable package for university students and recent graduates.
Note: Today’s utility industry is in upheaval. All of the assumptions the business has run on have been turned on their heads. This post is the third in a three-part series looking at how analytics are helping utilities navigate this challenging landscape and find new opportunities for improvements in operations,
This blog post outlines how to create your own CAS functions using the CAS Language. It also includes a partial list of both CASL built-in and common functions for reference.
인공지능(AI)이 우리에게 미치는 영향이 나날이 커지면서 일자리를 대체할 것이라는 우려도 높아지고 있습니다. 이를 위해서 인공지능의 윤리 방안과 규제에 대한 논의가 이루어지고, 기업이 알고리즘으로 인해 일자리를 빼앗긴 직원에게 재교육을 제공해야 한다는 목소리가 나오고 있는데요. 하지만 이러한 모든 내용은 인공지능이 미치는 부정적인 면에만 치우쳐 있습니다. 그렇다면 인공지능이 우리의 삶에 주는 혜택으로는 무엇이 있을까요? 인공지능,
Previously, I have written articles on how we could display more subject response data along with the traditional WaterFall graph showing the best "Change from Baseline". This is in response to the desire to see data like treatment duration for each subject in the same graph. Otherwise, investigators have to