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If you’re doing data processing in the cloud or using container-enabled infrastructures to deploy your software, you’ll want to learn more about SAS Analytics for Containers. This new solution puts SAS into your existing container-enabled environment – think Docker or Kubernetes – giving data scientists and analysts the ability to
As teachers, we lean into our experience. We trust our judgment about students and our instruction. We trade teaching stories with colleagues. And increasingly, we examine student growth data that illuminates our practice and occasionally suggests we refine our approach to individual students. In the past decade, states and districts
For a SAS professional, presenting at SAS Global Forum 2017 can be a very rewarding. It can enhance your conference experience, help expand the knowledge of the broader SAS community, and advance your career by putting you on display as an expert SAS professional. It can also be a little
Next week, Work/Life, HCC, and RFC will hold the first ever Sleep Transformation challenge for SAS employees and their adult family members. As part of a series of blogs on sleep by the Work/Life staff, today’s topic is Children and Sleep. Like adults, many children do not get enough
As you may know, Work/Life is partnering with RFC and HCC to launch a Sleep Transformation next month, so I thought I would focus this month’s blog on the importance of sleep for older adults with dementia. We are all aware of the importance of a good night’s sleep,
El big data se ha convertido en una parte fundamental del éxito de las compañías visionarias que comprenden y valoran la importancia de la recolección y análisis de los datos generados en una empresa. Sin embargo, el big data sin la presencia de un científico de datos podría carecer de
Time series machine learning techniques show great promise for the analysis of health care wearable data. As our busy lifestyles render continuous monitoring more and more essential, the need to analyze data to find correlations between these data streams becomes even more important, because they can provide important cues to
Lately I've been binge-watching a lot of police procedural television shows. The standard format for almost every episode is the same. It starts with the commission or discovery of a crime, followed by forensic investigation of the crime scene, analysis of the collected evidence, and interviews or interrogations with potential suspects. It ends
In the past, a large percentage of US workers have been union members, and the unions could exert a big influence on elections. How powerful are the unions these days, an where do they wield the most influence? Let's map it out... In 1954, almost 35% of US workers belonged to
.@philsimon chimes in on new data-gathering methods and what they mean for analytics.
No really, don't get up. If you are curious about yoga and want to try a gentle practice, chair yoga may be just what you need (even if you don't know it yet). Whether you are in a desk chair, a conference room chair, or a wheel chair, you can sit and simultaneously become more fit. The
Analysts often use a simple moving average to get an idea of the trends in data. This is simply an average of a subset of time periods, and the size of the subset can differ depending on the application. The technique can be used with data based on time periods,
Tomar decisiones inteligentes a partir de Big Data Analytics se ha convertido ahora en una posibilidad real. La analítica, sin duda, ha revolucionado la manera en la que las compañías se relacionan con sus clientes y ha permitido que se adelanten para brindarles nuevas y apropiadas ofertas en el momento
Analytics Experience 2016 will be held on Sept. 12-14, 2016 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV. There will be a great number of excellent talks and demonstrations at the conference, covering many aspects of SAS analytics and many practical applications. Several of these sessions deal directly with the use
In many ways financial services is about risk management. Regulatory pressures such as BCBS 239, stress-testing, IFRS9, Solvency II and the Fundamental Review of Trading Book have hugely strengthened that focus. But there are other concerns too. Cost pressures are increasingly important, as is the rise of challengers to the