How do I stack up in terms of digital maturity against my manufacturing peers? This is a question that I have been asked many times. The fear of missing out creates unbearable pain. Trade wars and the COVID-19 pandemic exposed some of the manufacturing wounds: tight margins, supply chain risks,
I hope you're all doing well, in this year of plagues and locusts! I'm sure I don't even need to mention which plague I'm talking about. But what about the locusts? Are you up on your entomological studies? Follow along, and see if you really know what locusts are... Locusts
One of the lesser-known effects of COVID-19 has been on analytical risk models. Around the world, the pandemic has created a new reality. The situation became so unpredictable that financial institutions’ risk models lost their ability to make accurate predictions. Past performance, it turned out, was very definitely not a
In general, it is hard to simulate multivariate data that has a specified correlation structure. Copulas make that task easier for continuous distributions. A previous article presented the geometry behind a copula and explained copulas in an intuitive way. Although I strongly believe that statistical practitioners should be familiar with
This is the second post in a series covering parallel processing in SAS Viya. The first post served as an introduction to parallel processing. It covered parallel processing uses in data science and the SAS Viya products that facilitate it. There are countless opportunities for using parallel processing within data
Having the ability to know what the best decision is in any given scenario sounds like a superpower. What may surprise you is that this “superpower” already exists. SAS calls it intelligent decisioning. Decisioning is a powerful tool in the business world. It is useful to both the company and
Assisto Consulting is a management consulting firm delivering analytical and operational solutions for banks and multiple other sectors with a strong focus on financial technology and delivering its tailor-made business solutions. Its partners are all experienced banking professionals with skills in risk management, finance, business development, and marketing, and of
Do you know what a copula is? It is a popular way to simulate multivariate correlated data. The literature for copulas is mathematically formidable, but this article provides an intuitive introduction to copulas by describing the geometry of the transformations that are involved in the simulation process. Although there are
To successfully adapt and reinvent business decisions amid the uncertainty of the past year, organizations have leaned on support from their partner ecosystems. Together, SAS and its SAS Partner community have collaborated to find new answers to customers' toughest challenges and to drive innovation and digital transformation. In honor of this,
Sopra Steria è una società di consulenza, servizi digitali e sviluppo software con sede a Parigi. È stata costituita nel 2014 in seguito alla fusione di Sopra e Steria, due società di servizi digitali e software. Ho incontrato Roberto Balzerani, Director Public Sector, Energy & Telco Italy, per discutere delle
Hippocrates once said, “Let food be thy medicine.” For food vendors, this advice could be communicated another way: Stock more fresh fruit, protein and vegetables. The periphery of the grocery store has led in the expansion of revenues – namely within produce, but also spanning seafood, bakery products and ready-to-eat
A recent article about how to estimate a two-dimensional distribution function in SAS inspired me to think about a related computation: a 2-D cumulative sum. Suppose you have numbers in a matrix, X. A 2-D cumulative sum is a second matrix, C, such that the C[p,q] gives the sum of
“We live in disruptive times… where the only constant is a change” – this statement seems very accurate to the situation we face today. The funny thing is that this is a quote from an ancient philosopher Heraclitus of Efez, who had said it almost 2500 years ago! The “new
This is part two of a two-part series on digital transformation for manufacturers, where we explore the real risk of not digitally transforming and the journey that manufacturers are undertaking to capitalize on the opportunity to increase revenue, profit, and operational effectiveness. You can read more in my first blog
"Wem die Daten gehören, ist die falsche Frage. Wer die Daten zu welchem Zweck nutzen darf, wäre doch richtiger."
In a world increasingly characterized by digital economies and disruption, every market disturbance exponentially widens the business agility gap between the less digitally evolved and those companies that have demonstrated innovation leadership through digital transformation. For those that are not transforming with urgency, the negative consequences will become compounded to
SAS System Engineer Sophia Rowland reveals how to embed decision flows into webpages and applications using APIs for a better customer experience.
Over the past year, it’s become normal for me to order my groceries online, make telehealth appointments for my family and attend dozens of virtual meetings every week. And I am not alone. Last year not only brought an increase in the use of digital technologies. It also brought with
This article shows how to estimate and visualize a two-dimensional cumulative distribution function (CDF) in SAS. SAS has built-in support for this computation. Although the bivariate CDF is not used as much as the univariate CDF, the bivariate version is still a useful tool in understanding the probable values of
Vivimos una crisis sin precedentes en nuestra historia. A causa del COVID-19, numerosos países han impuesto diferentes medidas de cuarentena y restricciones a la vida social y económica. La salud es la prioridad , pero se han puesto en marcha múltiples ayudas con objeto de paliar la inmediata crisis económica.
The computer vision team was recently presented with the following challenge concerning image matching performance. An insurance company has the capability to submit claims and supporting materials digitally via an online interface. They need, however, to be able to detect when images already used in previous claims have been resubmitted
Damit Innovation in Disruption umbenannt werden kann, braucht es erst mal ein gutes Ohr für das noch theoretische Vorhaben.
This article uses simulation to demonstrate the fact that any continuous distribution can be transformed into the uniform distribution on (0,1). The function that performs this transformation is a familiar one: it is the cumulative distribution function (CDF). A continuous CDF is defined as an integral, so the transformation is
One of my areas of focus is mental health and I have a personal/professional commitment to normalizing seeking resources for support. It makes sense for me to write a post on mental health resources for PRIDE month. It makes sense given that LGBTQ+ individuals experience a higher rate of mental
一、可能有的狀況 錯誤訊息: [Error] Failed to transcode data from utf-16le to wlatin1 encoding because it contained characters which are not supported by your SAS session encoding. Please review your encoding= and locale= SAS system options to ensure that they can accommodate the data that you want to process. 資料匯入後都是亂碼 二、造成原因 資料與電腦環境的編碼不同，便可能造成使用者資料匯入後無法使用
International Symposium on Forecasting (virtual, June 27 - July 2) The 41st International Symposium on Forecasting will be virtual again this year, and begins Sunday June 27. SAS will have a huge presence -- as event sponsor, sponsor of the IIF/SAS Research Grants, and with 19 individual presentations. ISF registration
A SAS programmer noticed that his SAS output was not displaying multiple blanks in his strings. He had some strings with leading blanks, others with trailing blanks, and others with multiple blanks in the middle. Yet, every time he used SAS to print the strings to the HTML destination, something
Avec la crise sanitaire, le monde du retail s’est profondément transformé. Comment s’adapter aux changements et comment anticiper le retour à la normale ? Et surtout, quelle sera cette nouvelle normalité ? Les contraintes et restrictions qui accompagnent la crise sanitaire ont eu divers impacts sur la consommation, dont une
시각화 분석을 위해서는 빅데이터를 활용할 수 있어야 하며, 시각화 및 고급 분석, 셀프 서비스, 리포팅 기능을 갖춰야 합니다. 아울러 데이터 핸들링, 분석, 리포트 생성에 이르는 전 과정에서 인사이트를 확보하고자 하는 모든 이들이 자유롭게 사용할 수 있어야 합니다. SAS AI 기반의 시각화 솔루션은 완전 초보자도 자동 추천과 자동 예측 기능을 사용하여
