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Sometimes one's job gets in the way of one's blogging. My last three months have been occupied with the launch of SAS® Viya™, our next-generation high-performance and visualization architecture. Please take the time to find more information on the SAS Viya website, and apply for a free preview. Rob Hyndman
With recent advances in quadcopters, or drones, they have become pretty capable and fun flying machines. And just about anybody can afford the entry-level models. They've recently become prevalent enough that the government has started coming up with rules, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) started requiring owners to register drones that
The one thing, above all others, that I wish PROC REPORT could do is know which observations from my data set that I want kept together on a single page of non-Listing output. This is problematic for two reasons. 1. PROC REPORT cannot read my mind! 2. PROC REPORT does
Más allá de entender el riesgo como un potencial de pérdida, su definición varía ampliamente dependiendo de la industria y de muchos otros factores. Sin embargo, lo que sí es un común denominador es la necesidad de captar cómo se pueden identificar y aprovechar las oportunidades sin poner en riesgo
Master data management (MDM) is distinct from other data management disciplines due to its primary focus on giving the enterprise a single view of the master data that represents key business entities, such as parties, products, locations and assets. MDM achieves this by standardizing, matching and consolidating common data elements across traditional and big
For the first time in 4.5 years, we had a day with zero sunspots - I think this special occasion calls for some sunspot graphs! But before we get started, here's one of the many pictures my friend Kirk took of the sun down in Marco Island, Florida. Spots or no
If you’ve followed recent health news, you’ve read reports confirming the negative health effects of excess sugar consumption. High sugar intake has been linked to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, brain diseases and more. Numerous health organizations including the American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Institute of Medicine (IOM) and
21st century is the era of information revolution, when mass exploitation of data is a part of daily routine. Nowadays any business requires that the information driving the decision-making process be of a high quality, timely delivered and, above all, reliable and that it ensure security of the activity conducted.
Just before my son's wedding this spring, I was considering what I could share about Michael at the rehearsal dinner. As I sorted through pictures from his childhood, I came across one from 5th grade. Michael played the main character in Leo Tolstoy's Christmas story, "Papa Panov". During the performance, he stayed in
Die deutschen Versicherer haben sich zusätzlich zum Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, das die Datenverarbeitung und die Speicherung von personenbezogenen Daten festlegt, zur Einhaltung des brancheneigenen Code of Conduct verpflichtet. Kundendaten aus verschiedenen Versicherungssparten werden aber aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen, um Cross-Selling-Potenziale zu identifizieren oder Risikoklassen zu berechnen, häufig zu Auswerte- und Analysezwecken in einer Datenbank gespeichert oder
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) Confederation has done lots of great research on how to enhance decision making so that every decision delivers greater value to patients (in terms of clinical outcome) and to health care organisations (in terms of operational effectiveness). In its most recent report on this
A reader posed a question in the comments to an earlier Jedi SAS Trick, asking how to write the results of a DS2 DATA _NULL_ program to a text file. It's an interesting question, as DS2 currently has no text file handling statements or capabilities. Take, for example, this traditional
Single view of customer. It's a noble goal, not unlike the search for the Holy Grail – fraught with peril as you progress down the path of your data journey. If you're a hotelier, it can improve your customer's experience by providing the information from the casinos and the spa at check-in to better meet your
In my last blog post, I introduced common concerns I’ve heard about predictive analytics in child well-being efforts. In this post, I want to address those concerns and reassure leaders and advocates that predictive analytics can be a tremendous boon to our ability to help kids and ease the burden on
Unternehmen leben von der Qualität ihrer Daten. Banal bis fatal. Die Realität ist eher: Unternehmen überleben trotz der schlechten Qualität … Auf Nachfrage bekennen fast alle Befragten (98 Prozent), dass eine weitere Verbesserung der Datenqualität in ihrem Unternehmen positive Auswirkungen hätte. Mehr als die Hälfte sah da Chancen, etwas zu