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신속한 의사결정을 지원하는 '클라우드 네이티브' 애널리틱스
오늘 6월 17일(미 동부 시간 기준 16일) 온라인으로 개최한 ‘SAS 글로벌 포럼 2020’에서 SAS는 최신 클라우드 기술을 접목해 의사결정 과정을 가속화하는 AI 기반 엔터프라이즈 분석 플랫폼의 최신 버전 ‘SAS 바이야 4(SAS® Viya® 4)’를 공개하고 마이크로소프트와 클라우드 전환 가속화를 위한 전략적 파트너십 체결을 발표했습니다. 클라우드로 전환하는 비즈니스 IT 트렌드에 발 맞추어
Write a CAS data table by using the iml action
A previous article shows how to use the iml action to read a CAS data table into an IML matrix. This article shows how to write a CAS table from data in an IML matrix. You can read an overview of the iml action, which was introduced in SAS Viya
Do the Principles of Analytics Apply to Forecasting?
As the Virtual SAS® Global Forum 2020 is running live online, we have a guest blog post today from Udo Sglavo, Vice President of Analytics R&D at SAS. Udo is a long time colleague and co-editor (with me and Len Tashman) of Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions. In this
SAS User Feedback Award winner helps drive innovation, shape SAS® 360 Engage software
SAS users help drive innovation, providing feedback on SAS products through various mediums, including customer advisory boards, communities, SASware ballot ideas and SAS Global Forum. The SAS User Feedback Award is presented annually to a user whose recommendations and insights lead to significant improvements to SAS software. This year SAS
Are you ready for true cloud native computing? Meet SAS Viya 4
It’s official: NASA no longer builds spaceships. They’ve outsourced that task. According to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine, "We're going with commercial partners. NASA is not purchasing, owning and operating the hardware. We're buying the service." Why? Because NASA needs to focus on exploring space, not building the transportation to get
SAS, Microsoft bring analytics to everyone, everywhere
Digital transformation continues to change our relationship with technology. As part of this change, the world is transforming from one of technology-literate people to one of people-literate technology. What do we mean by people-literate technology? We mean smart, automated, reliable, explainable decision systems that operate at scale. Analytics and AI
KI ist Mannschaftssport AI#21
Interview mit Deutscher Bahn, Dr. Thomas Thiele. Chief Expert AI & Program Manager House of AI der DB.
Read a CAS data table by using the iml action
A previous article compares a SAS/IML program that runs in PROC IML to the same program that runs in the iml action. (You can read an overview of the iml action.) The example in the previous article was very simple and did not read or write data. This article compares
6 new ways to connect at virtual events
I’m going to be honest. When we decided back in March to pivot our largest event of the year from an in-person event to a virtual one, I wasn’t sure what we were getting ourselves into. I didn’t know how we could replace the in-person networking, the unlimited learning opportunities
A data scientist finds her way in a world of data
Your journey could look very different to mine, but I think as long as you’re curious, you’re on the right track!
Getting started with the iml action in SAS Viya
A previous article provides an introduction and overview of the iml action, which is available in SAS Viya 3.5. The article compares the iml action to PROC IML and states that most PROC IML programs can be modified to run in the iml action. This article takes a closer look
Virtual SAS Global Forum (complimentary event) June 16
I hope you will join me (and over 20,000 of my closest friends) on Tuesday June 16, for the complimentary Virtual SAS Global Forum 2020. The SAS event team has put together an impressive program of live and recorded content. You can create your own virtual experience, selecting from multiple
Moving Forward Courageously: A message from the Work/Life Center
A message from the Work/Life Center: We are getting many requests from employees asking what they can do to challenge racism and to support their Black coworkers. We love that we work for a company with this level of concern. In our last blog post we shared some thoughts on context as
Rapid demand response forecasting helps retailers adapt during COVID-19
Rapid demand response forecasting techniques are forecasting processes that can incorporate key information quickly enough to act upon in real time by agile supply chains. Retailers and consumer goods suppliers are urgently trying to determine how changes in consumer behavior will affect their regions, channels, categories, brands and products during
How rapid analytics app deployment accelerates transformation
I think that this pandemic has put digital transformation at the top of every executive agenda.
SAS Global Forum se reinventa
SAS, al igual que las personas y empresas del planeta que tuvieron que modificar su forma de trabajar y hacer negocios debido a la pandemia por COVID-19, se enfrentó a importantes desafíos y encontrar nuevas maneras de apoyar a sus clientes. Esta coyuntura también le está presentando una oportunidad única
Dihydrogen monoxide - still the best way to hydrate
Why all the fuss about hydration? H2O helps regulate body temperature, transports nutrients throughout the body and cushions joints. Not only that, but it is essential for flushing waste products and toxins from the body. Environmental pollutants, household chemicals, alcohol, medications and end products from your body’s natural chemical reactions
More alike than different: Two health systems share their COVID-19 response
What do two health systems, 4000 miles apart (6600 kilometers) have in common in their COVID-19 response? Despite different policy responses to the pandemic, they are more alike than you might think. Brought together by SAS and the FutureNHS COVID-19 analytics huddle, these two health systems recently shared their experience
AI and continuous monitoring in the fight against procurement fraud
Procurement fraud is, to put it simply, huge. An estimate by PwC a few years ago suggested that it was one of the most common economic crimes around the world. That estimate has not changed. What’s more, few companies have taken steps to address the problem. “Procurement fraud is notoriously
An introduction to the iml action in SAS Viya
This article introduces the iml action, which is available in SAS Viya 3.5. The iml action supports most of the same syntax and functionality as the SAS/IML matrix language, which is implemented in PROC IML. With minimal changes, most programs that run in PROC IML also run in the iml
PRIDE Everywhere
June is PRIDE month. Even before I joined the leadership team for the SAS PRIDE Employee Inclusion Group, I always used my Work/Life blog in June to write about LGBTQ youth and how we can support them. This year I struggle to find words that are adequate to educate,
How to measure data quality
Learn the nuts and bolts of how to measure data quality from expert Jim Harris.
Corona als Blaupause AI#20
Technikfolgenabschätzung und Ethik von KI ist Kerngeschäft von Prof. Michael Decker vom KIT. Wir sprachen mit einem Visionär.
Going beyond the box score: Text analysis in sports
Critics of sports analytics (and there are some entertaining ones) love to point out that analytics isn’t capable of capturing the things that don’t show up on a box score. A player who dives on the floor to save a loose ball, a quarterback strategically misleading a defender to free
Doing good and giving back
Written by Allison Hines and Kara Roberts Over the last few weeks, we've shared stories of how SAS employees are banding together while staying apart during the COVID-19 crisis. Our people have donated their time and skills to the cause, including making masks for healthcare workers, leading virtual dance classes for students with special needs and hosting trivia games for charity via Zoom – among many other efforts. Keep reading
Interactions with spline effects in regression models
A SAS customer asked how to specify interaction effects between a classification variable and a spline effect in a SAS regression procedure. There are at least two ways to do this. If the SAS procedure supports the EFFECT statement, you can build the interaction term in the MODEL statement. For
How to explain your complex models in SAS® Viya®
In the second of a three-part series of posts, SAS' Funda Gunes and her colleague Ricky Tharrington summarize model-agnostic model interpretability in SAS Viya.
Not on the high street?
Intelligent decisioning can help telcos survive the retail shutdown by accelerating the shift to digital channels
Should we really be afraid of artificial intelligence?
AI has huge potential to help us understand and manage our world, and especially to get value from the enormous amount of data that we now generate.
