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Todd Wright says addressing GDPR compliance might be just the catalyst the insurance industry needs.
In a world that never stands still, especially in the post-Brexit whirlwind the UK will soon be entering, it’s imperative that government is agile and responsive. More importantly, how can this capability be arrived at without breaking the bank? The UK Government recently released its Transformation Strategy 2017 to 2020.
I have previously discussed how to define functions that safely evaluate their arguments and return a missing value if the argument is not in the domain of the function. The canonical example is the LOG function, which is defined only for positive arguments. For example, to evaluate the LOG function
Innovation used to happen in structured cycles. The new invention was often a planned event and the domain of a select few departments within an organisation. But in today's always-on economy enterprises need to innovate on a continuous basis to keep up with new players that base their entire businesses
The ancient political maxim “divide and conquer” (Lat. “dīvide et īmpera”) has been used for millennia in politics, sociology, and psychology, mainly to manipulate people. In the last two centuries, however, this principle has also been adopted by computer science. It is widely used in computer programming, primarily in computer
This past weekend, I was a volunteer helping with an Ironman 70.3 race. I was really impressed & inspired by the athletes ... I was also excited about the quantity and variety of data generated by this type of race (compared to a regular marathon). And as a 'graph guy' I
5月23日に開催されたSAS Forum Japan 2017では、通常のセッション枠とは別に、「スーパーデモ」と題して、各種SAS製品やソリューションのデモが紹介されました。通常セッションの休憩時間はもとより、セッション時間中でも多くの方々が「スーパーデモ」エリアに集まり、食い入るようにデモも見られていました。 その中で、私が実施したデモ内容をご紹介します。 SASのAI機能は、SAS言語のみならず、Python, R, Java, Luaなどの汎用プログラミング言語からも活用可能ですが、このデモでは、SAS Studioを使用し、SAS言語でSASのAI機能を活用したモデル作成を行いました。 詳細（スライド版）に関しては、以下をご覧ください。（SlideShareに公開済み） SAS言語派集まれ！SAS StudioからSAS Viyaを使ってみよう！ from SAS Institute Japan 詳細（デモ版）に関しては、以下をご覧ください。（YouTubeに公開済み） 今なら無償でSAS Viyaを試用することができます。詳細は以下のブログを参照してください。 SAS Viyaを体感してみよう！ ～SAS Viya無償試用版利用ガイド～
Two colleagues and I, all former educators, have dealt with education equity gaps both as children and professionally. This is the second post in a series about our experiences. I encourage you to read the first entry, Equity in education: I was a statistic. Many people think of education equity
En periodismo hay un viejo dicho: ‘Que un perro muerda a un humano no es noticia. Pero si un humano muerde a un perro eso sí es noticia’. Algo parecido fue lo que sucedió con WannaCry hace algunas semanas. El mundo entero se alarmó por el poder del ataque informático
Wait! Don't close this window. I understand that regular expressions can be very complicated (yes, there are many books on the subject), but some basic expressions to test patterns such as zip codes or telephone numbers are not that difficult. In addition, you can sometimes use Google to search for
I am delighted to have as one of my 2017 College Series’ guest bloggers, Theresa Maitland, PhD. Dr. Maitland is a Senior Learning Specialist and Academic Coach at UNC’s Learning Center. She has co-authored three books and engages in training and consulting with educational institutions. Q: When you think of
Refining your data for effective reports is even easier in the 8.1 release of SAS Visual Analytics. In this blog post, I’ll take a look at the data pane, how it displays data from your active data source, and a few tasks that you might want to perform, such as
As a kid who grew up in the 60s & 70s, I was a big fan of the original Star Trek TV series. And in the years since, I have seen lots of the Star Trek “technology” become a reality: cellphones, portable tablet computers, talking computers (Alexa/Siri), etc. But I
Jim Harris advocates addressing data quality and governance issues on the way to data lakes and Hadoop.
If you toss a coin 28 times, you would not be surprised to see three heads in a row, such as ...THHHTH.... But what about eight heads in a row? Would a sequence such as THHHHHHHHTH... be a rare event? This question popped into my head last weekend as I