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I was at the park with my three year old granddaughter this past weekend. As I was watching the parents running, fetching, pushing, I was reminded of some advice I received from a very wise woman when I had young children. She said, “If you are expending more energy than
To get a high-performing analytics team producing insights that matter, you need great people, powerful software and a culture of experimentation and innovation. Three simple ingredients, but getting there is far from easy. In this post, I’d like to get you thinking about how to organize for success by building
Ein Buzzword jagt das andere: Während der Hype um Big Data abklingt (zumindest hat Gartner den Begriff aus seinem Hype Cycle genommen), ist Internet of Things (IoT) gerade voll in Fahrt. Doch die Frage ist: Wie bekomme ich dieses Internet der Dinge aus der Hype-Ecke heraus? Eine Frage, über die
Platform and strategy are core to compliance, but Jim Harris says commitment from people across the organization is just as important and harder to achieve.
After reading my article about how to use BY-group processing to run 1000 regression models, a SAS programmer asked whether it is possible to reorder the output of a BY-group analysis. The answer is yes: you can use the DOCUMENT procedure to replay a portion of your output in any
We like to think of analytics as a logical discipline, where investment decisions are consistently rational and predictable. Not so. Customer organisations are driven by all the usual complex and sometimes contradictory forces. Business users want analytics to help them make good customer facing decisions as quickly as possible, while
The Obama administration made great strides in improving the government’s use of information technology over the past eight years, and now it's up to the Trump administration to expand upon it. Let’s look at five possible Trump administration initiatives that can take government’s use of information technology to the next
This is the seventh and last part of the blog post series “A practical guide to tackle auto insurance fraud”. In the first six articles of the series we drilled down to: Data Management and Data Quality as the basis for fraud detection analytics. Business Rules and Watch lists techniques
Strengthens arms, wrists, core, spine and thighs. Opens chest and shoulders while improving posture. Upward-Facing Dog Pose (Sanskrit: Urdhva Mukha Svanasana) Begin lying down on mat (face down). Legs are lengthened behind with inner thighs spiraling so all ten toes and top of feet are planted in mat. Place palms
Funnel graphs are useful to track the number of visitors passing through various pages of a website or the number of patients in a study. The graph shows visually the retention of users or subjects in a study across levels of a marketing cycle or the study. One common representation
There aren’t many things that keep me awake at night but let me share a recent example with you. I’ve been grappling with how to help a local SAS team respond to a customer’s request for a “generic enterprise analytics architecture.” As background, this customer organization had recently embarked on
Word on the proverbial technology street is that online learning is ideal for modern learners, and, at SAS, we wholeheartedly agree. In 2016, more than 80,000 SAS users trained in an online or blended learning format. In 2017, we kicked off the year with the announcement of our new SAS
Editor's note: The following post is from Emma Warrillow, Chief DiGGer at Data Insight Group Inc. (DiG). Emma is a featured speaker at SAS Global Forum 2017 and recently named as one of the Top Women in Direct Marketing by Direct Marketing News. Learn more about Emma. “I need
David Loshin describes three sets of policies required for ensuring compliance with data protection directives for health care.
¿Se ha preguntado de qué manera la inteligencia artificial puede realzar la interacción con sus clientes? Es probable que lo haya hecho de varias maneras y utilizando conceptos similares, con respuestas muy variadas. Por ahora, comencemos por el principio, ¿qué es la inteligencia digital y cómo puede ayudar a su