Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

March 29, 2019 0

De la ciencia ficción a la realidad. Aplicación de ofertas personalizadas a clientes desde la Inteligencia Artificial y el reconocimiento de imágenes.

¿Han visto la película Minority Report? En esta se presentan algunas escenas en las cuales John Anderton entra a un centro comercial y mediante el “Sistema de reconocimiento óptico de la ciudad”, la pantalla de publicidad le saluda por el nombre y luego le hace ofrecimientos personalizados de productos. Para

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Artificial Intelligence | Risk Management

Alex KwiatkowskiMarch 29, 2019 0

AI: What it is and why it matters in risk management

I recently reacquainted myself with this excellent Executives Guide to AI from our friends at McKinsey & Company. The authors have distilled a complex topic into something easily digestible while avoiding jargon and hyperbole. While not in the CliffsNotes or Bluffer’s Guide category, this Insights article undoubtedly helps the reader

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Banking

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | SAS Events

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunMarch 29, 2019 0

SAS, 향후 3년간 AI 분야 10억 달러 투자 계획 발표

SAS, 향후 3년간 AI 분야 10억 달러 투자 계획 발표 R&D 혁신 교육 및 전문가 컨설팅 지원 통해 기업 AI 역량 강화 국내에서도 AI 전문가 교육 프로그램 제공… 인재 양성 및 분석가 저변 확대 2019년 3월 28일 – 세계적인 분석 선두 기업 SAS(www.sas.com/korea)가 향후 3년간 인공지능(AI) 분야에 총 10억 달러(한화 약

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Korean

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things

Michael ThomasMarch 29, 2019 0

Intelligent realities with AI, IoT and eXtended reality

Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), eXtended reality (XR), mixed reality (MR), spatial augmented reality, hybrid reality. That's a lot of new technology and a lot of acronyms for a philosophical concept that has been pondered for millennia: what is reality? An intelligent reality is a technologically enhanced reality that

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Advanced Analytics

Gerhard SvolbaMarch 29, 2019 0

Kann ich etwas für Sie tun? Sechs Beispiele für hilfreiche Data-Science-Methoden

Der Sales Manager kann sich bezüglich des zu erwartenden Jahresergebnisses doch nicht so in Sicherheit wiegen, wie er dachte. Hans Huber aus unserem Callcenter hat eine höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit zu kündigen als Petra Hafner aus dem Controlling. Die Transaktionsverläufe der Kunden 42911, 85022 und 91294 passen ja gar nicht zu deren

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German

Students & Educators

Terry HardisonMarch 29, 2019 0

Pet Peeves and the Grammar Gauntlet

At a restaurant recently, I overheard part of the conversation at an adjoining table. A man with a stentorian voice was complaining about one of his co-workers. “And the worse part,” the man boomed, “is that this guy constantly tries to take credit for my ideas, which you know is

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Management | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Suneel GroverMarch 28, 2019 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360 Meets SAS Viya: Show me the demo

Over the past couple of years, I've written about a variety of use cases and value props regarding SAS® Customer Intelligence 360. As powerful as words and images can be, let's transition to the ultimate show – the demo. In the forty minute video below, observe how SAS Customer Intelligence

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Data Visualization

Business Analytics PortugalMarch 27, 2019 0

Self-Service BI com Tecnologia SAS

Autor Convidado: Rui Salsas, Business Analytics Senior Consultant, Mind Source  A utilização de ferramentas tecnológicas de apoio e suporte ao negócio já é um fator de diferenciação com largos anos. Para quem recorre à tecnologia SAS, e são muitos os clientes e parceiros, a realidade do passado era uso do

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Portuguese

Analytics

Gustavo GutmanMarch 27, 2019 0

¿Por qué la analítica es fundamental para las organizaciones en tiempos difíciles?

Cualquiera que esté informado sabrá que este no ha sido un año fácil en términos macroeconómicos para las organizaciones en América Latina, y particularmente en Argentina. En medio de este contexto, me enorgullece decir que el 2018 ha sido el mejor año de la última década para SAS Argentina, con

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Spanish

Analytics

Mike GillilandMarch 27, 2019 0

Guest blogger: Len Tashman previews spring 2019 issue of Foresight

Special Feature Section Our special feature section in this 53rd issue of Foresight poses the question, Are You a Victim of Your Models? Here Tom Willemain, a longtime contributor to the journal, ponders why modeling and optimization algorithms haven’t displaced “gut instinct” in supply-chain forecasting as much as one would

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Analytics

Mike F. SmithMarch 27, 2019 0

Utility analytics leaders at the edge: Meet an industry unicorn

Note: This is the first in a series of profiles of leaders in today’s utility analytics marketplace. “My job is to make people uncomfortable with the way they do things today. Transformation implies a revolution, not small incremental changes, and today the big revolution in any industry is in data,"

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinMarch 27, 2019 0

How to simulate multivariate outliers

In simulation studies, sometimes you need to simulate outliers. For example, in a simulation study of regression techniques, you might want to generate outliers in the explanatory variables to see how the technique handles high-leverage points. This article shows how to generate outliers in multivariate normal data that are a

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Artificial Intelligence

Hugo D'UlisseMarch 26, 2019 0

Understanding the government’s ambition for AI is one thing – making it real is quite another

“We are at the cusp of one of the most exciting times in our lives and, if we get our strategy for AI right, then the UK will be able to reap the rewards for our economy for decades to come.” Greg Clark - Secretary of State for Business, Energy

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Government

Artificial Intelligence

Business Analytics PortugalMarch 25, 2019 0

As organizações estão a preparar-se para um uso mais ético e responsável da Inteligência Artificial

92% dos líderes de IA formam as suas equipas em ética e 74% avalia, semanalmente, os resultados obtidos com a IA Se tivéssemos que destacar uma buzzword dos últimos tempos que vivemos escolheríamos Inteligência Artificial (IA). Uma tecnologia que, sem dúvida, nos transporta para outro patamar da chamada evolução tecnológica. Uma

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Portuguese

Data Management

David LoshinMarch 25, 2019 0

CCPA and the definition of personal information

The broad CCPA definition of personal information could open a can of worms for compliance and governance.

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English

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonMarch 25, 2019 0

Plotting population projections, with a confidence interval

During the year 2020, many countries and areas will be conducting their decennial census, and making projections to estimate what their population will be in the future. Therefore I decided to dust off one of my old SAS/Graph samples based on the 2010 census, and rewrite it using more modern

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Government

Analytics

Emma TomkinsMarch 25, 2019 0

How data science can accelerate outcomes for the public sector 

UK government departments and the wider public sector are under huge pressure to improve service delivery and efficiency. We also know that investments in data analytics and data science play a key role in transforming services to help citizens. So what are the key challenges preventing more widespread adoption of

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Government

Programming Tips

Rick WicklinMarch 25, 2019 0

The geometry of multivariate versus univariate outliers

An important concept in multivariate statistical analysis is the Mahalanobis distance. The Mahalanobis distance provides a way to measure how far away an observation is from the center of a sample while accounting for correlations in the data. The Mahalanobis distance is a good way to detect outliers in multivariate

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Customer Intelligence

Tiffany CarpenterMarch 25, 2019 0

5 ways your digital analytics strategy is hindering your customer experience

These days, an ever-increasing number of customer interactions are taking place over digital channels and every single digital interaction offers an incredible source of customer intelligence for organisations to tap into. With every visit, customers leave a valuable trail of digital breadcrumbs. These breadcrumbs give organisations the ability to follow

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Analytics

Alex KwiatkowskiMarch 22, 2019 0

Transformation in Nordic banking

Deloitte’s 2019 Banking and Capital Markets Outlook begins by stating that “a decade after the crisis, the banking industry is on firmer ground.” Shortly after it asserts that “there may be no better time than now to reimagine digital transformation.” Having tinkered at the margins to keep the lights on,

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Banking

Customer Intelligence | Students & Educators

Harry ClarkeMarch 22, 2019 0

The marketing best practices that drive student and financial value in higher education

In my previous post, “Why personalising the student experience is critical to higher education’s viability," we examined the role customer intelligence can play in driving value for universities and students across the higher education journey. Specifically, analytics has a vital role to play in helping decision makers, particularly marketers, to

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Education

Advanced Analytics

Neela Niranjani VengateshwaranMarch 21, 2019 0

Building a YOLO object detection model using SAS

Computer vision is one of the most sought-after artificial intelligence (AI) applications today, finding a wide variety of use cases in image recognition, object detection, biomedical assessment, and more. SAS supports a diverse set of AI and deep learning capabilities that can be used in many of these applications. One

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Analytics

John MaynardMarch 20, 2019 0

6 tech influencers to follow on Twitter

My favorite tech influencers teach, ask questions and share their knowledge freely. They value quality over quantity, and they engage with each other authentically. My goals on social media are to learn, engage with the world socially, and to share what I think is cool – sometimes this is about

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonMarch 20, 2019 0

Is there more flooding than usual this year?

Flooding has been in the news the past few days, and that makes me want to analyze some data! I hang out at Jordan Lake (here in central North Carolina) a lot, so I decided to download the data for that lake, and do a graphical analysis. If you're interested

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Insurance

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Nico BüttnerMarch 20, 2019 0

Gamification aus Sicht eines Gamers

Wie schon gesagt, ich bin Gamer. Ich bin außerdem Freizeit-Spieleentwickler und Angestellter. Es ist also nicht weiter verwunderlich, dass Gamification (ich möchte hier bei der englischen Schreibweise bleiben) ein interessantes Thema für mich ist. Gemeint ist damit die Übertragung von Techniken, die üblicherweise in Spielen eingesetzt werden, auf andere Bereiche,

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German

Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinMarch 20, 2019 0

Truncate response surfaces

An analyst was using SAS to analyze some data from an experiment. He noticed that the response variable is always positive (such as volume, size, or weight), but his statistical model predicts some negative responses. He posted the data and asked if it is possible to modify the graph so

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Data for Good | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonMarch 18, 2019 0

How deadly was the flu in 2019?

Here in the US, there's a lot of talk about the flu each year. First, people discuss whether or not to get the flu shot. Then there are discussions about whether or not you or your friends have the flu (or something else). Then the discussions about what strain of

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Health Care

Advanced Analytics

Gerhard SvolbaMarch 18, 2019 0

Data-Science-Methoden: Automatisiert die Nadel im Heuhaufen finden

„Die wichtigsten Dinge schreibt man am besten gleich in die Einleitung! Eventuell lesen einige ja gar nicht bis zum Hauptteil weiter“. Einen ähnlichen Gedanken hatte ich bei meinem aktuellen Buch Applying Data Science – Business Case Studies Using SAS auch. Da sind bereits in der Einleitung die Mehrwerte aufgezählt, die

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German

Programming Tips

Rick WicklinMarch 18, 2019 0

Interpolation vs extrapolation: the convex hull of multivariate data

Statisticians often emphasize the dangers of extrapolating from a univariate regression model. A common exercise in introductory statistics is to ask students to compute a model of population growth and predict the population far in the future. The students learn that extrapolating from a model can result in a nonsensical

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good

Julia GongMarch 15, 2019 0

Demo of deep learning to detect tumors in liver CT scans

This is the fifth and final post in my series of posts about the deep learning model I developed to detect tumors in 3D CT scans of livers. My last post talked about visualizing the results of the computer vision project. This post will cover model accuracy and the final

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Health Care