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Around the world, animals continue to be added to the endangered species list. Thankfully, there are organizations like WildTrack, a nonprofit organization using non-invasive techniques to monitor endangered species. With the help of SAS® technology, WildTrack can use its collection of data to preserve endangered species and improve conservation efforts.
Phil Simon chimes in on the last five years of Hadoop with an eye toward the future.
As some of you might know, I have recently had a baby. This means that everything about my life has changed! Including how I go about making dinner. Currently, I have very limited time to prepare meals on most nights. For a while it was whatever I could make with
According to Hyndman and Fan ("Sample Quantiles in Statistical Packages," TAS, 1996), there are nine definitions of sample quantiles that commonly appear in statistical software packages. Hyndman and Fan identify three definitions that are based on rounding and six methods that are based on linear interpolation. This blog post shows
When presenting information in form of a graph we show the data and let the reader draw the inferences. However, often one may want to draw the attention of the reader towards some aspect of the graph or data. For one such case, a user asked how to highlight one
고객관계관리(CRM), 여행 산업의 핵심 경쟁력으로 떠올라 요즘 ‘먹방’과 ‘쿡방’의 인기를 무섭게 따라잡고 있는 트렌드가 있습니다. 바로 ‘여행 방송’입니다! 꽃보다 할배의 열풍을 시작으로 원나잇 푸드트립, 패키지로 세계 일주 – 뭉쳐야 뜬다, 배틀 트립 등 각종 여행 방송이 쏟아지고 있는데요. 실제 방송 후 관련 여행 상품들의 매출이 증가하면서 그 인기를 증명하고 있죠!
When I turn on my shower to heat up the water, I put a jar on the floor. Weird? Maybe. I once read a suggestion to reuse wasted water for household means. The idea stuck with me and the next time I turned on the shower I grabbed a jar. As the water
These days, more and more people move to where the work is. And for many people in Europe, that 'where' is Germany. I recently saw a map of Germany, that showed which country had the most foreigners living in each area. It was an interesting map, but I thought I might
Como afirma el dicho: renovarse o morir. La industria de seguros necesita transformar su cultura, operación y atención al cliente. SAS México realizó un foro de líderes del sector en el que, durante un panel conformado por representantes de MAPFRE, GNP y AXA, se debatió dicho tema y se concluyó
In a recent Computerworld feature, Deanna Wise, Executive Vice President and CIO of Dignity Health, encouraged forward-thinking CIOs to develop partnerships within their organizations to drive better customer experiences that translate into revenue. Wise has a strong record of doing just that, collaborating with SAS to implement advanced analytics throughout
A nivel global, la mayoría de las personas tiene conocimiento sobre el tema por las constantes primicias que vemos cada año acerca de muertes de celebridades ocasionadas por sobredosis de medicamentos recetados, pero esto solo es la punta del iceberg de un problema mucho mayor. De acuerdo con información de
As part of the 2017 College Series, I have invited a few individuals to write guest blogs. Today’s blog comes from Christopher Campau, the Collegiate Recovery Program Coordinator for the state of North Carolina. If you have a student who has struggled with substance use in high school and you
In last week's article about the Flint water crisis, I computed the 90th percentile of a small data set. Although I didn't mention it, the value that I reported is different from the the 90th percentile that is reported in Significance magazine. That is not unusual. The data only had
오탐(False Positive), 자금세탁방지(AML)의 새로운 도전 과제 2016년 2월, 미국 재무부 산하의 금융범죄단속반 ‘FinCEN(Financial Crime Enforcement Network)’은 플로리다 주 지브롤터 프라이빗 뱅크(Gibraltar Private Bank)와 트러스트 컴퍼니(Trust Company)에 자금세탁방지(AML: Anti-Money Laundering) 프로그램의 ‘상당한’ 결함을 이유로 4백만 달러의 벌금을 부과했습니다. 글로벌 금융 업계의 이목은 당시 보고된 여러 결함 중 ‘오탐(false positives)’으로 쏠렸습니다. *오탐(False Positive): 잘못
In recent years, solar panels have become much more economical, and therefore more popular. But because of the curvature of the Earth, the angle at which you need to install the panels varies, depending on where you live. In this example, I demonstrate how to visualize this kind of data