Analytics

Brad HathawayOctober 13, 2016 0

Einfluss von EU-Datenschutz-Grundverordnung auf Data Governance und Analytics

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?

Read More

German

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Mike GillilandOctober 13, 2016 0

Changing the paradigm for business forecasting (Part 2 of 12)

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,

Read More

English

Analytics | Data for Good

Will JonesOctober 13, 2016 0

Taking a “Moneyball” approach to child welfare workforce woes

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

Read More

English

Government

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Mike GillilandOctober 13, 2016 0

Changing the paradigm for business forecasting (Part 1 of 12)

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

Read More

English

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 12, 2016 0

Which drinks have the most, and least, caffeine?

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

Read More

English

Internet of Things

Natalie MendesOctober 12, 2016 0

The analytics of things ... and sports

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

Read More

English

Customer Intelligence | Learn SAS

Ruth Dobson-TorresOctober 12, 2016 0

9 skills to become a more modern marketer

Editor's Note: SAS' e-book, Your guide to becoming a modern marketer, provides additional guidance on the skills you need to become a modern marketer. This e-book provides a plan of action and documents lessons we've learned at SAS while modernizing our marketing organization. Today, the need to take an analytical approach to business challenges no

Read More

English

Data Management

David LoshinOctober 12, 2016 0

Operational data governance: Who owns data quality problems?

Data integration teams often find themselves in the middle of discussions where the quality of their data outputs are called into question. Without proper governance procedures in place, though, it's hard to address these accusations in a reasonable way. Here's why.

Read More

English

Analytics

Michael HerrmannOctober 12, 2016 0

Die EU Datenschutz-Grundverordnung ist digitaler Personenschutz

Die EU-DSGVO (im Englischen GDPR) ist ab Mai 2018 von allen Unternehmen anzuwenden. Sie bereitet den Boden für den zeitgemäßen Schutz persönlicher Daten – denn jegliches Merkmal, das direkt oder indirekt auf die Person, den realen Kunden schließen lässt, gehört geschützt. Das kann eine IP-Adresse sein oder auch eine Ortsangabe

Read More

German

Rick WicklinOctober 12, 2016 0

The empty-space distance plot

How far away is the nearest hospital? How far is the nearest restaurant? The nearest gas station? These are commonly asked questions whose answers depend on the location of the person asking the question. Recently I showed an algorithm that enables you to find the distance between a set of

Read More

English

Analytics | Students & Educators

Georgia MarianiOctober 11, 2016 0

ESSA – accountability, indicators and analytics to drive informed decision making

Last December, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law to ensure opportunity for all students in the United States. As part of this federal legislation, states now have the flexibility to design their own accountability systems following certain parameters outlined in ESSA. These accountability systems include academic and non-academic indicators. By

Read More

English

Education

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 10, 2016 0

Where did Hurricane Matthew drop the most water?

This past weekend, Hurricane Matthew came through the Carolinas. Some areas had record flooding, while other areas didn't. I was anxious to get back to work today, so I could use SAS software and create a custom map showing who got how much rain. But before we get to the official

Read More

English

Data Management

Dylan JonesOctober 10, 2016 0

How I (reluctantly) learned the value of data governance

Data governance must encompass management of the full life cycle of a data policy – its definition, approval, implementation and the means of ensuring its observance - David Loshin, Data Policies and Data Governance I was checking out my Google stats on Data Quality Pro recently and observed that "How

Read More

English

Rick WicklinOctober 10, 2016 0

WHERE operators in SAS: Multiple comparisons and fuzzy matching

The WHERE clause in SAS is a powerful mechanism for selecting observations as you read or write a data set. The WHERE clause supports many operators, including the IN operator, which enables you to compactly specify multiple conditions for a categorical variable. A common use of the IN operator is

Read More

English

Data Visualization

Dan StevensOctober 8, 2016 0

Building clinical data and insight visually

Have you ever been involved in executing an exploratory analysis based on an integrated clinical trial database? If so, you've probably experienced firsthand how elaborate the initial phase of data access and data processing can be. Market analysts estimate the ratio for preparing the data, compared to actually analyzing the information,

Read More

English

Health Care

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 7, 2016 0

Digging deeper into weather data, with custom SAS Analytics!

When you were growing up, did you ever imagine that the most popular show on TV would be 24-hour coverage of a storm?!? Yes, for better or for worse, the weather has become our new reality TV. And as you watch the weather coverage, you probably see all the weather reporters showing the

Read More

English

Data Management

Jim HarrisOctober 7, 2016 0

How do you define data governance?

Data governance has been the topic of many of the recent posts here on the Data Roundtable. And rightfully so, since data governance plays such an integral role in the success of many enterprise information initiatives – such as data quality, master data management and analytics. These posts can help you prepare for discussing

Read More

English

Data Management | Machine Learning

Charlie ChaseOctober 7, 2016 0

Machine learning changes the way we forecast in retail and CPG

Machine learning is taking a significant role in many big data initiatives today. Large retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are using machine learning combined with predictive analytics to help them enhance consumer engagement and create more accurate demand forecasts as they expand into new sales channels like the

Read More

English

Manufacturing | Retail

Students & Educators

Carmen GallagherOctober 6, 2016 0

Achieving analytics ROI – the path to success

Are you happy with the ROI on your analytics investments? Recently we’ve seen an upswing in organisations investing in analytical platform capabilities. One can assume the goal of these investments is to turn transactional data into a strategic asset. However, analytics alone will not do it. Unless your organisation is

Read More

English

Education

Data for Good | Data Management

Dan StevensOctober 6, 2016 0

A playbook for analyzing real world intelligence in a health care setting

Real world data collected in a functioning health care setting instead of a controlled clinical environment can provide opportunities for new and deeper insights across life science and health care organizations. However, managing, analyzing and extracting actionable information from the varied available sources can present unique challenges. The sheer size of these

Read More

English

Health Care

Analytics

Olivier PenelOctober 6, 2016 0

Big Data Governance - ein Data Lake, kein Datensumpfgebiet

Dies ist der zweite Teil der Blog-Serie zu Big Data Governance. Beginnen Sie vorher am besten mit „Teil 1: Wie Big Data Unternehmen durcheinanderwirbelt”, wenn sie ihn noch nicht gelesen haben.

Read More

German

Customer Intelligence | Internet of Things

Alyssa FarrellOctober 5, 2016 0

Big data customer analytics key to high-performing energy companies

Energy suppliers are fighting for prime position in the domestic energy supply market. Disillusioned customers, increased competition due to a flood of new entrants and tighter regulations are forcing suppliers to reassess their business models. According to UK regulator Ofgem, there were 3.8 million account switches in the first six

Read More

English

Data Management

Joyce Norris-MontanariOctober 5, 2016 0

What's the difference between data governance and data management? (Part 1)

Lately, the definitions of data governance and data management look very much alike. In this two-part series, we'll define data governance and data management. And we'll see that there's a big difference in the two.

Read More

English

Rick WicklinOctober 5, 2016 0

Visualize a weighted regression

What is weighted regression? How does it differ from ordinary (unweighted) regression? This article describes how to compute and score weighted regression models. Visualize a weighted regression Technically, an "unweighted" regression should be called an "equally weighted " regression since each ordinary least squares (OLS) regression weights each observation equally.

Read More

English

Learn SAS | Students & Educators

Natalie MendesOctober 4, 2016 0

Two tips for women starting a career in analytics

While men still outnumber women in the analytics field, there are plenty of opportunities available for women. At a recent Chief Data and Analytics forum, I was encouraged to see a well-balanced number of senior executives presenting about the business of analytics.  Speakers included 12 women and 14 men, which indicates a

Read More

English

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 4, 2016 0

Will Hurricane Matthew follow in its predecessors' footsteps?

Like many words, if you just say "Cat 5" different people might think you're talking about different things. Computer geeks might assume you're talking about category 5 network cabling. But around this time of the year, most people in the southeast US will probably assume you're talking about a category

Read More

English

Data Management

Phil SimonOctober 3, 2016 0

Should organizations separate analytics governance and data governance?

.@philsimon asks, Rather than trying to tackle a new form of governance, wouldn't your organization do better to shore up its existing data-governance practices?

Read More

English

Rick WicklinOctober 3, 2016 0

Let PROC FREQ create graphs of your two-way tables

The recent releases of SAS 9.4 have featured major enhancements to the ODS statistical graphics procedures such as PROC SGPLOT. In fact, PROC SGPLOT (and the underlying Graph Template Language (GTL)) are so versatile and powerful that you might forget to consider whether you can create a graph automatically by

Read More

English

Customer Intelligence

Andrew FowkesOctober 3, 2016 0

Retailers, are you considering customer relevance and commercial relevance?

With today’s customers able to access rich sources of product and service information – especially pricing data – when they are mobile, retailers are being forced to innovate in the way they capture consumers’ attention. Unfortunately, attention spans are rapidly decreasing to just the few seconds that a user spends

Read More

English

Retail

Learn SAS

Sian RobertsSeptember 30, 2016 0

Looking after your digital self

Jared Cohen, President of Jigsaw, formerly Google Ideas, and Chief Advisor to Alphabet Executive Chairman (former Google CEO) Eric Schmidt, presented a very interesting keynote at Analytics Experience this month. In it he mentioned the idea of a ‘digital self’. He explained most people have not one but numerous digital

Read More

English