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Every day, more than one hundred thousand SAS users visit our website looking for SAS information and resources. Given its importance to our user base, we’re constantly looking for ways to evolve the site. Over the next few months, you’ll notice changes to the support website, changes we believe will
What if you could predict with near-perfect accuracy what you’re going to sell and when your customer is going to buy? Right supply, right time is the goal German manufacturers have set themselves, without reducing the configuration options customers expect. Having almost completed stage 1 of their plan – changing
Last time I checked, there are well over 500 functions and call routines in SAS. I’ve taught SAS programming courses for 15 years, and I’ll admit that occasionally my students will ask me about a particular function that I have honestly never heard of. I remember the first time this
In my last post, we explored the operational facet of data governance and data stewardship. We focused on the challenges of providing a scalable way to assess incoming data sources, identify data quality rules and define enforceable data quality policies. As the number of acquired data sources increases, it becomes
I started young. Since I was 9 years old, I’ve always loved cooking delicious, tasty and healthy food, and feeding friends and family. My aunt still remembers the delicious chocolate soufflé that trembled and shook but would never collapse that I made for them when I was 18! Word spread.
In a previous blog post I explained how end users should code and use shared locations for SAS artifacts, to avoid issues in a SAS Grid Manager environment. Still, they could still fall in some sharing issues, which could have very obscure manifestations. For example, users opening SAS studio might notice
Poder predecir acontecimientos futuros con base en el análisis del pasado: ese es el gran poder que tienen Big Data y la analítica predictiva en la actualidad. Este tipo de soluciones han sido ampliamente utilizadas por sistemas como el financiero (bancos, aseguradoras y entidades de riesgo) para calcular cada
I started out as a Psychology major. During my third year as an undergraduate, I was hired on as a research assistant for my advisor in her cognitive psychology lab. Through this and progressively more complicated psychological research experience, I quickly grew to love statistics. By the end of that
Desde la aparición de la banca electrónica, ya hace varios años, las empresas y las personas se han visto favorecidos en gran medida, dado que ofrece grandes beneficios para ambos sectores de consumo. Sin embargo, ahora nos enfocaremos en analizar dos de las principales soluciones que este tipo de servicios
Data science may be a difficult term to define, but data scientists are definitely in great demand! Wayne Thompson, Senior Product Manager at SAS, defines data science as a broad field that entails applying domain knowledge and machine learning to extract insights from complex and often dark data. To further
When shopping for a new TV, with many sets next to each other across a store wall, it is easy to compare the picture quality and brightness. What is not immediately evident and expected is the difference between how the set looked in the store and how it looks in your
I am more than glad to invite you to join me in a series of posts related to a practical guide for tackling auto insurance fraud in the new era of data science and advanced analytics. Insurers are used to face a constant threat, a powerful enemy that never rests.
As I've previously written, data analytics historically analyzed data after it stopped moving and was stored, often in a data warehouse. But in the era of big data, data needs to be continuously analyzed while it’s still in motion – that is, while it’s streaming. This allows for capturing the real-time value of data
Die Springer-WG im Silicon Valley wurde zunächst belächelt und beargwöhnt. Hat es das schon einmal gegeben? Ein deutscher Konzern schickt eine Handvoll seiner Top-Manager für einen längeren Aufenthalt in eine andere Weltgegend mit dem Auftrag, die Geschäftsmodelle der Zukunft zu sondieren. Herausgekommen sind ikonisch gewordene Bilder eines Vollbart tragenden Kai
Last week, one of the major pipelines supplying gasoline to the eastern US broke. Do you know where the break is, and which states will be having shortages? Me neither! ... So, of course, I created a SAS map to help... First I read up about the spill on various