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Students & Educators
Jennifer Bell 0
Advocating for a robust value-added implementation

Recently, the American Statistical Association (ASA) released a statement about value-added modeling. This statement was widely covered in the national press, some of which positioned the statement as a significant blow to value-added modeling. However, the ASA statement did not “slam” value-added modeling; rather, the statement’s authors advocated statistical rigor,

Advanced Analytics
David Pope 0
How to dilute the value of analytics

Business Intelligence (BI) can mean many things to many people, but generally BI is associated with business reports. When you fold business analytics (BA), especially advanced analytics that are predictive or prescriptive, under the BI umbrella you inherently dilute the value proposition that analytics can provide to an organization. Why

Data Visualization
Sanjay Matange 0
Spirals

Spirals are cool.  And useful.  We use them every day without thinking about it.  Every time the road turns from a straight line to a curve, we go through a transition spiral.  Spirals allow us to change curvature in a steady increasing or decreasing fashion.   Without a spiral, this

Advanced Analytics | Analytics
Renee Nocker 0
What is a better decision worth?

The word “analytics” is widely misused and misunderstood.  While SAS arguably invented the advanced analytics and predictive analytics categories more than 38 years ago, other software vendors have used the term to describe things like reporting, monitoring, and tracking what happened.  The value of these more simple capabilities are easily

Work & Life at SAS
Amanda Pack 0
Welcome to Inspirations

Welcome. I'm so glad you're here! This topic will feature tips, stories, and fun to help you on your path to wellness.  Look for posts on the first and third Wednesday of each month. What is "wellness"? Wellness is defined by the The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary as the condition

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