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SAS programmers often resort to using the X command to list the contents of file directories and to process the contents of ZIP files. In centralized SAS environments, the X command is unavailable to most programmers. NOXCMD is the default setting for these environments (disallowing shell commands), and SAS admins
Anomalies: The Beginning of a Crisis While even trained scientists can fail to see things that fall outside what they are looking for, anomalies eventually start to get noticed. But still, for a long time, anomalies within an existing paradigm are seen as mere “violations of expectation.” The response within
Today’s IT department isn’t your grandfather’s IT department. It’s not even your father’s IT department. When people talk about Information Technology Departments of the past, it's usually broken into three distinct periods: The Mainframe; PCs; the Internet/post PC. The IT department was seen as the hardware support arm of an
Stretches the hips, ankles and shoulders while opening chest and lengthening spine. Cow Face Pose (Sanskrit: Gomukhasana)
.@philsmion says that even the "best governed" organization today isn't safe from inquiring minds.
Das ist der dritte Beitrag zur Blog-Serie Big Data Governance. Bisher sind erschienen Wie Big Data Unternehmen durcheinanderwirbelt und Mit Data Governance gegen den Datensumpf. Zum Abschluss möchte ich 5 Tipps abgeben, die ich selbst von Pionieren in Sachen Big Data übernommen habe. Meine erste Empfehlung lautet, Data Governance bereits zu Beginn der
In 15 Monaten tritt die EU-Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) in Kraft. Nicht nur Unternehmen mit Sitz in der Europäischen Union bereiten sich darauf vor, sondern auch Firmen mit Sitz im Ausland sind betroffen, die personenbezogene Daten von europäischen Bürgern nutzen. Welchen Einfluss hat GDPR auf Analytics und Datenmanagement?
The Current Paradigm for Business Forecasting So what is the current paradigm that we, the community of business forecasting practitioners and researchers, are operating under? I’d argue that for at least the last 60 years, since 1956 when Robert G. Brown published his short monograph Exponential Smoothing for Predicting Demand,
Could you imagine running a business with a 35-90% annual turnover rate? What if the average time to fill a position was anywhere between 3-12 months? This alone would cripple most organizations, but is a common reality in state and local child welfare agencies. High turnover and vacancy rates are
In a February 2015 post Offensive vs. Defensive Forecasting, I sought to distinguish two very different approaches to the business forecasting problem: Offensive: The "offensive" forecaster is focused on forecast accuracy -- on extracting every last fraction of a percent of accuracy we can hope to achieve. The approach is
En los últimos 15 años, presenciamos un aumento exponencial en ataques de cibercrimen, la mayoría de ellos con el objetivo de infiltrarse en las bases de datos de las empresas en busca de información confidencial y de valor. Determinados sectores, como el financiero, se vuelven los más buscados y por
In „Silicon Germany“, dem Nachfolgebuch zu seinem Bestseller „Silicon Valley“ (siehe mein Blog dazu), konzentriert sich Christoph Keese ganz auf den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland. Kompetent, facettenreich und gut geschrieben mündet die Bestandsaufnahme in ein Plädoyer, gerichtet an Wirtschaft und mehr noch an die Politik: „Wie wir die digitale Transformation schaffen“.
A friend and I were recently debating how much caffeine is in various drinks. I felt like my hands were tied behind my back, since I had no graphs to show them. Of course, the first thing I did when I got to work was create some caffeine graphs! They turned out
Who cares about sports and data? Not just athletes, coaches and fans. It turns out that many companies outside of sporting organisations are also associated with the sports industry. For example, financial services organisations are actively involved in sports sponsorships. Retailers sell fan merchandise. Telcos build social engagement strategies around
Quizá una de las pruebas principales de que la analítica se ha vuelto un aspecto de negocio y no de tecnología en las organizaciones es el nuevo rol que ahora tiene el CMO. El Chief Marketing Officer o lo que en Latinoamérica conocemos como Vicepresidente de Marketing, Gerente o Director