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Procurement fraud, often a form of internal fraud, is common fraud’s black sheep of the family...whispered about at gatherings or ignored in hopes that it will simply go away. No one wants to shine a questioning light onto trusted employees or imply wrongdoing within our purchasing departments, but the fact
If you’re familiar with the SAS story, you know that we have deep roots in academia. But our CEO Jim Goodnight has always known that roots aren’t enough to achieve incremental growth. You also have to plant seeds. Analytics alone can’t drive change, help businesses succeed and make the world
A lot of my friends seem to be getting married these days. Which got me thinking about wedding parties. Which then got me wondering what songs DJs do/don't play at weddings these days. And what was the outcome of my meandering thoughts ... a fun & interesting graph, of course! It
Am 20. Juni trafen sich in Wien 30 Vertreter von Banken, um neue Herausforderungen an Infrastrukturen von Banken zu diskutieren. Dr. Thomas Moosbrucker, Deloitte Deutschland, beleuchtete in dem ersten Vortrag die Herausforderungen von TRIM (Target Review of Internal Models). Seiner Meinung nach wird uns TRIM, welches das Vertrauen in die
Skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of a univariate distribution. I have previously shown how to compute the skewness for data distributions in SAS. The previous article computes Pearson's definition of skewness, which is based on the standardized third central moment of the data. Moment-based statistics are sensitive to
Cuando AstraZeneca se propuso hacer más rentable el proceso de fabricación de su producto Turbuhaler y minimizar las variaciones, se enfrentó a un reto importante: la necesidad de construir una solución con capacidad suficiente para manejar todos los datos relacionados con la producción que se almacenaban en todos los sistemas
Nowadays, whether you write SAS programs or use point-and-click methods to get results, you have choices for how you access SAS. Currently, when you open Base SAS most people get the traditional SAS windowing environment (aka Display Manager) as their interface. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If
Der Datenschutz macht‘s möglich: Customer Intelligence 360 geht in die nächste Dimension! Der Kunde360, „Omni-Channel“, „Data-driven Marketing“ – wer hat in den letzten zwölf Monat davon gehört? Oder, ich versuche es mal anders rum: Wer hat nicht davon gehört? Ja, richtig – wir sind im Bereich Customer Intelligence/Marketing. Und alles,
TwIn part one of this series, Clark Twiddy, Chief Administrative Officer of Twiddy & Company, shared some best practices from the first of three phases of Twiddy’s journey to becoming a data-driven SMB. This post focuses on phases two and three of their journey. (Read the whole series here.) Phase
Todd Wright says Hadoop can be difficult – but data management can help.
최근 양귀비 불법 재배와 연예인 마약 사건이 잇달아 발생하면서 국내에서는 멀게 느껴졌던 마약 범죄에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있습니다. 실제 관세청은 올해 상반기 마약 밀수가 전년 대비 2.6배 증가했으며, 밀수된 마약의 종류까지 다양해졌다고 발표했는데요. 국가는 이처럼 급증하는 마약 밀수를 차단하기 위해 조사 인력과 장비를 확충하고, 검색 기법을 적극 개발하겠다고 밝혔습니다. 이미
Datasets are rarely ready for analysis, and one of the most prevalent problems is missing data. This post is the first in a short series focusing on how to think about missingness, how JMP13 can help us determine the scope of missing data in a given table, and how to
St. Louis Union Station welcomed its first passenger train on Sept. 2, 1894 at 1:45 pm and became one of the largest and busiest passenger rail terminals in the world. Back in those days, the North American railroads widely used a system called Timetable and Train Order Operation to establish
El ecosistema actual de marketing es más complejo que nunca, por lo tanto es imposible gestionarlo sirviéndose únicamente de la intuición. Los clientes son más exigentes y siempre están cambiando entre un creciente número de canales, la competencia sigue aumentando, los presupuestos se desploman y las decisiones tienen que tomarse
In the digital world where billions of customers are making trillions of visits on a multi-channel marketing environment, big data has drawn researchers’ attention all over the world. Customers leave behind a huge trail of data volumes in digital channels. It is becoming an extremely difficult task finding the right