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Analytics makes it possible to uncover complex or organized fraud that rules-based systems would miss.
Digital transformation. Yup, I said it. It's over-hyped. But as SAS Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer Oliver Schabenberger says, "It's also real and powerful. Our world is being liquefied from physical assets into virtual assets, and analog processes into digital processes - the world is turning into bits
Il Risk Management è un tema centrale nel settore finanziario e se questo fosse uno dei soliti articoli dedicati al Risk Management, allora adesso dovremmo parlare della crisi del 2008, di come le autorità bancarie abbiano reagito, di quali rischi debbano essere gestiti in modo efficace, e così via. Questo,
Let’s be honest, there is a lot of SAS content available on the web. Sometimes it gets difficult to navigate through everything to find what you need, especially if you are looking for complimentary resources. Training budgets can be limited or already used for the year, but you’re still interested
A SAS/IML programmer asked about the best way to print multiple SAS/IML variables when each variable needs a different format. He wanted the output to resemble the "Parameter Estimates" table that is produced by PROC REG and other SAS/STAT procedures. This article shows four ways to print SAS/IML vectors in
Editor's note: This post was last updated on May 21, 2021. COVID-19 is truly a global health issue affecting everyone and causing concern for you, our customers. As we all continue to navigate the uncertainty of this outbreak, SAS is committed to supporting your business as a valued partner and
If you are reading this, you are part of the extended SAS family. Together, we are navigating uncharted territory as we care for our families, our friends and our communities during the coronavirus outbreak. Over the past few weeks, the SAS executive team has been meeting throughout the day, every day, to discuss how we
And as survey fatigue kicks in, challenges in customer satisfaction and NPS scoring abound: will data be still representative or will it become increasingly biased?
Data management has never been the shiny object that caught the imagination of the mainstream. And let’s be honest, it's not nearly as interesting as analytics, machine learning or artificial intelligence. In fact, entire movies get created about analytics, and people actually pay to see them! Data management? Not so
As a long-time SAS 9 programmer, I typically accomplish my data preparation tasks through some combination of the DATA Step, Proc SQL, Proc Transpose and some housekeeping procs like Proc Contents and Proc Datasets. With the introduction of SAS Viya, SAS released a new scripting language called CASL – a
Books about statistics and machine learning often discuss the tradeoff between bias and variance for an estimator. These discussions are often motivated by a sophisticated predictive model such as a regression or a decision tree. But the basic idea can be seen in much simpler situations. This article presents a
Fildes and Goodwin (F&G) observed the subject (the regional subsidiary of a pharmaceutical company) was using a statistical forecasting system, but not fully trusting its output. Forecasters were making overrides to the system generated forecast to make it look like what they believed it should (e.g., following a life-cycle curve
Diversas urgencias laborales y personales hicieron que dejara de escribir este blog con mis humildes opiniones y aportes técnicos. Superadas las mismas, aquí estoy de regreso. No les diré que muuuuuuchos seguidores al estilo de Wos pidieron a gritos mi regreso, pero he de decirles que ante mi sorpresa varias
Everyone's thinking about the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and wondering if there are any cases near where they live. I recently used SAS Software to create a dashboard with a world map showing which countries had reported cases. And now that the virus has spread around the world, a world/country-level
Hace algunas semanas les contábamos algunos de los secretos que están utilizando los grandes del retail en Latinoamérica para mejorar la planificación de la demanda. Lo hacíamos con base en ejemplos presentados durante el NRF 2020, para muchos el principal evento de innovación y tecnología aplicadas al sector retail o