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Austin Cook
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Manager, Financial Services Data Science Team

Austin Cook manages of team of data scientists that supports our financial services customers at SAS. He began his career in consulting and enjoys identifying and applying technology to solve complex business challenges in the financial sector. Austin has a natural curiosity for all things related to data science which was developed while earning his Masters in Analytics from the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University.

Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning
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Beyond NLP: Operationalizing Text Analytics

The Text Investigation Framework utilizes several technologies built on SAS Viya, including SAS Visual Text Analytics, SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning, and SAS Visual Investigator. SAS Visual Investigator acts as the orchestrator to surface the results. With its broad set of capabilities, SAS Visual Investigator can perform scenario authoring, alert generation and disposition, and comprehensive workflow to gather vital outcomes and feedback.

Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning
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Monotonic Constraints with SAS

A monotonic relationship exists when a model’s output increases or stays constant in step with an increase in your model’s inputs. Relationships can be monotonically increasing or decreasing with the distinction based on which direction the input and output travel. A common example is in credit risk where you would expect someone’s risk score to increase with the amount of debt they have relative to their income.