지난 10월 21일부터 23일까지 이탈리아 밀라노에서 열린 'SAS 애널리틱스 익스피리언스 2019(SAS Analytics Experience 2019)'에서는 SAS의 머신러닝, 컴퓨터 비전, 자연어처리 등 AI 기술을 기반으로 기업들이 어떻게 실제(real) 가치를 실현할 수 있는지 보여주는 다양한 사례들이 소개되었습니다. 특히 행사 둘째 날에는 짐 굿나잇 SAS CEO, 올리버 샤벤버거 SAS 수석부회장 겸 최고운영책임자(COO) & 최고기술책임자(CTO)의
지난 10월 21일부터 23일까지 이탈리아 혁신 기술의 중심지 밀라노에서는 유럽 최대 규모의 분석 컨퍼런스 ‘SAS 애널리틱스 익스피리언스 2019(SAS Analytics Experience 2019)’가 개최됐습니다. 3일간 밀라노 컨벤션 센터(Mico Milano Convention Centre)에서 진행된 올해 컨퍼런스에는 1,800명이 넘는 데이터 사이언티스트와 비즈니스 리더들이 모여 다양한 논의가 진행되었으며, 참석자들에게는 56개의 breakout 세션, 48개의 데모 부스, 그
Intelligence means learning from what has happened and using that to improve future choices.
Getting value from analytics is becoming top of mind for businesses. Organizations have invested millions of dollars in data, people and technology and are looking for a return on their investment. That requires operationalizing analytics so that it can be used for strategic decision making -- often referred to as
My colleague, Mike Drutar, recently showed how to create a "strip plot" that shows the distribution of temperatures for each calendar month at a particular location. Mike created the strip plot in SAS Visual Analytics by using a point-and-click interface. This article shows how to create a similar graph by
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Value-Based Payments (VBP), health care’s new magic, “silver bullet” that will solve all our fraud problems. Last month, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a press release entitled, “HHS Proposes Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Reforms to Support Value-Based and
“The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.” ~ William Gibson, author The same can be said for climate change – global warming is here, in a big way, but its effects are still an arm's length away for many of us. How is climate change
There is much to consider about getting value from deploying AI and analytics at the edge to manage IoT data. Read more here.
Biplots are two-dimensional plots that help to visualize relationships in high dimensional data. A previous article discusses how to interpret biplots for continuous variables. The biplot projects observations and variables onto the span of the first two principal components. The observations are plotted as markers; the variables are plotted as
A major UK insurance company used text analytics to categorise complaints.
US military veterans are mission-focused, team-oriented and natural leaders that benefit any organization that hires them. Many of today's veterans organizations use data and analytics to help transition military members and their spouses find rewarding civilian careers. SAS supports those efforts and we're also proud to offer many programs to
Analyzing tweets is challenging because of their succinctness (max 280 characters). However, that task is facilitated by the powerful features of SAS Visual Text Analytics (VTA), which includes embedded machine learning algorithms.
I recently saw in several social media posts that sales of vinyl records are forecast to be higher than sales of CDs this year (2019) for the first time since 1986. Two questions came to mind - 1) Is this true? and 2) Is this a big deal? Let's analyze
It’s always worth trying to improve our world and if it can be done thanks to analytics - I can’t imagine a better use case.
In grade school, students learn how to round numbers to the nearest integer. In later years, students learn variations, such as rounding up and rounding down by using the greatest integer function and least integer function, respectively. My sister, who is an engineer, learned a rounding method that rounds half-integers
With all this sitting at a desk writing code, I have to do something to keep in shape. And for me, that something is paddling boats ... as fast as I can - and occasionally trying to race them. This past weekend I entered the race at Hunting Island, SC.
What precisely, then, is needed in risk management? Users want a user-friendly interface, so that they can find what they need.
Are you looking for a Data Science easy button? The dataSciencePilot action set comes pretty close.
Innovation comes in all shapes and sizes. Business value though, lies in translating ideas into production.
Principal component analysis (PCA) is an important tool for understanding relationships in continuous multivariate data. When the first two principal components (PCs) explain a significant portion of the variance in the data, you can visualize the data by projecting the observations onto the span of the first two PCs. In
The public sector is finally changing. Artificial intelligence is gradually finding its way into its administrative structures.
According to the Price Waterhouse Cooper 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey, the reported rate of economic crime is on the rise, up to 49% in 2018. That makes the use case I want to share particularly relevant, no matter what industry or sector you're in. This use case
Understanding multivariate statistics requires mastery of high-dimensional geometry and concepts in linear algebra such as matrix factorizations, basis vectors, and linear subspaces. Graphs can help to summarize what a multivariate analysis is telling us about the data. This article looks at four graphs that are often part of a principal
#Amazon forced retailers to find new ways to attract their customers. How can artificial intelligence help #retailers to adress their group?
When I started working in data and analytics 30 years ago, information security wasn’t high on the agenda for organizations. That's changed with the rise of the Internet, and now that cloud is becoming more and more prevalent in organizations, information security is no longer just the domain of specialists
Sabe o que está a causar defeitos nos produtos da sua fábrica? Sabe avaliar os prejuízos provocados por esses defeitos e que factores os influenciam? Sabe quais os parâmetros da máquina que têm maior influência na ocorrência desses mesmos defeitos? Estas são algumas das questões e dúvidas que muitas fábricas
I was recently reading David Mintz's excellent SESUG 2018 conference paper on Five Crazy Good Visualizations and How to Plot Them, and saw a map that caught my eye. David showed how to create a similar map, but with completely different data - I decided to try creating a map
SAS Japanでは昨年末より”Data for Good”を目指す学生コミュニティ「SAS Japan Student Data for Good community」を運営しています。このコミュニティは、Data For Goodを題材にデータサイエンスの一連の流れを体験する場として設立されました。今回紹介する勉強会も、その活動の一環です。詳しくは「Data for Goodを通じて"本物の"データサイエンティストになろう！」の記事をご覧ください。 三回目の勉強会ではヒートアイランド現象をテーマに、課題設定の部分を学びました。 ヒートアイランド対策、”どこ”から？ ヒートアイランド現象とは、都市部の気温が周りに比べて高くなる現象です。その要因には、都市化による土地利用の変化や人間活動で排出される熱などがあります。対策事例として人口排熱削減のために次世代自動車の普及をしたり、保水性舗装の普及や屋上緑化を推進して地表面被服の改善を目指したりというものが行われています。 勉強会で取り上げたヒートアイランド対策事例の一つに、リッチモンドのヒートマッピングがあります。ヒートアイランド現象は都市部と郊外を比較して都市部の方が暑いという考え方が一般的です。しかし、植生域より人口被覆域の方が地表面からの大気加熱を大きくすることや、明るい色の舗装より暗い色の舗装の方が熱を吸収して暑くなることから、都市部の中でも暑さに対する強度は場所によって異なります。そこで、リッチモンドでは「都市の中でも特に暑さの影響を受けやすい場所を見分ける」ことで、対策を優先して行うべき場所の判断をサポートするためのプロジェクトを開始しました。そのアプローチとして、 リッチモンドをブロックで分けた各地点の気温・場所・時間のデータを収集する 観測データ＋土地利用マップ＋住民の収入データ→各地点のヒートアイランドに対する脆弱性レベルを定量化・可視化 に取り組んでいます。このプロジェクトは2017年にリッチモンドで開始し、今では様々な都市に活動の輪を広げています。詳しい内容はこちらの記事（英語）をご覧ください。 解くべき課題を設定する これらの知識を踏まえて、次は「課題設定」を行いました。自分たちでヒートアイランド現象という問題に対して、解くべき課題は何か・解決するために誰のどのような意思決定が必要か・どのようなデータが必要か、についてディスカッションをしました。 議論を進めていく中で、さまざまな意見が飛び交いました。その中には、テーマとして設定していたヒートアイランド現象を解決するというよりも、ヒートアイランド現象が”障壁”となって起きるであろう「熱中症を未然に防ぐ」というものを課題に設定するという意見がありました。その解決策として、リッチモンドの事例を応用した「ある人がいる地点の体感気温＋その人の体温のデータをリアルタイムで収集し、熱中症のおそれがある場合に通知するアプリケーションの作成」などの案が出てきました。 ディスカッションをすることで、自分では思いつかない新鮮な発想に触れることができたり、テーマに広がりを持たせることが出来たりすることを感じました。アナリティクスの結果を活用するアクションを考えるための「課題設定」を実際に体験できたディスカッションになりました。 コミュニティメンバー募集中！ SAS Japan Student Data for Good communityでは引き続き学生の参加者を募集しております。社会貢献を目指す活動を通してデータサイエンティストの役割である「課題の設定」から「データを用いた解決法の提示」までの一連の流れを経験できます。 興味をお持ちでしたら下記の事項をご記入の上JPNStudentD4G@sas.comまでご連絡ください。 大学名 / 高校名 名前 メールアドレス
I have a clear view on the potential of AI: the true value of AI lies in helping banks to know and understand their customers.
It’s imperative that banks embrace technology - driven changes, break down barriers to change and disrupt themselves digitally.
