A persistent analytics talent gap creates big opportunities for people who can wield analytics to help organizations make better decisions. Innovative analytics users and students who are rushing to fill that gap, and those who teach them, are being honored this week at SAS Global Forum. A special Sunday event
A record-breaking crowd of more than 5,500 analytics enthusiasts received a Texas-sized welcome from CEO Jim Goodnight as he opened SAS® Global Forum 2019. This is the fourth time the forum has been held in Dallas, and this year, the evening started with a look back at one of the
"Practical AI" might seem like an oxymoron to some. But that’s only if you view artificial intelligence as a futuristic and unrealistic pursuit. Kirk Borne, PhD, decidedly does not. Borne is the Principal Data Scientist and an Executive Advisor at global technology and consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. In this
There is a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence (AI), and also a lot of fear. Let’s set aside the potential for robots to take over the world for the moment and focus on more realistic fears. There is a growing acceptance that AI will change how we work. There
A few years ago Sanjay showed how to create a polar graph by creating a gtl template, and then plotting it using Proc SGRender. These days, Proc SGPlot has all the functionality you need to create this graph, therefore I've rewritten the example to just use SGPlot. And while I
Banks increasingly face challenges that put pressure on the bottom line. In this post, I’ll focus on the threats that affect the risk departments of banks. In my view, there are three critical areas. The 3 core challenges 1. Regulatory and accounting demands The first is increased regulatory and accounting
Analytics can help today’s leaders transform banking for the digital age without compromising on efficiency It’s no secret that challenger banks and fintech companies are changing the banking industry as we know it. The main issue for today’s banking leaders is not that customers are switching to new high-street providers,
The CUSUM test has many incarnations. Different areas of statistics use different assumption and test for different hypotheses. This article presents a brief overview of CUSUM tests and gives an example of using the CUSUM test in PROC AUTOREG for autoregressive models in SAS. A CUSUM test uses the cumulative
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。このコミュニティでは世界の絶滅危惧種や通勤ラッシュ時の鉄道混雑緩和など、データを活用した社会課題の解決に取り組んでいます。 活動を更に加速させるために、Data for Goodのケーススタディを通じた課題設定・アナリティクスの適用法を学ぶ勉強会を開催しました。 この記事では勉強会の中で取り上げた事例を２つ紹介します。 1.ネパール地震でのIOMによる支援 1つ目の事例はSAS USが国際移住機構(IOM)と協力して行ったネパール地震における復興支援です。 2015年4月25日に起きたネパール地震では約９０万棟が全半壊し、多くの住民が仮設キャンプ場での生活を余儀なくされました。IOMは現地でキャンプ場の運営等の支援活動を行っていましたが、６月から始まる本格的な雨季を前に風雨を凌げる住居の提供が喫緊の課題でした。 IOMの要請を受けたSAS USは国連商品貿易統計データベース(UN Comtrade)を利用した各国のトタン板の生産能力を分析し、その結果迅速なトタン板の供給を実現しました。この事例からは次の事が学べます。 データの可視化によって意思決定の支援ができる この事例では住宅復興支援に必要な物資の素早い調達という課題に対し、国連商品貿易統計データベースの300万件ものデータをSAS Visual Analyticsで分析し仕入れ先を可視化することで解決しています。 複雑で膨大なデータも適切に分析・要約・可視化することで経験ではない科学的根拠に基づいた新たな知見を導くことができます。 2. 大学中退率の改善 ２つ目の事例はData for Goodを推進する社会団体であるDataKindが取り組んだアメリカのとある大学の中退率の改善です。 日本の大学と比べアメリカの大学は中退率が高く、 National Student Clearinghouseによると約半数近くの学生が学位を取得せず辞めていきます。DataKindは大学の依頼を受け、どの要素が中退に影響を与えるのか、また中退の危険性のある学生を事前に特定することに挑みました。 デモグラフィックデータや学業成績などの学生情報を10年分以上分析したところ、入試の成績と卒業は関連が確認できなかった一方で、GPAや専攻などが卒業に影響を与えていることが判明しました。 この結果を踏まえ20以上もの異なるアプローチのモデルを生成し改良を重ねた結果、生徒の中退を高い精度で予測するモデルを生み出しました。 詳しい内容は原文をご覧ください。この事例からは次の事が学べます。 未来を予測して事前に対処する この事例では、中退率の改善という課題に対して統計分析や機械学習を駆使し事前に中退リスクのある学生を特定することで解決を目指しています。事前の把握ができれば大学側は効率的な学生への支援が可能となるはずです。 上記以外にも参加者それぞれが事例紹介を行い、課題に対してのアナリティクスを用いたアプローチ方法を学びました。勿論データを分析のみで課題をすべて解決することはできませんが、従来の方法では成し得なかった突破口を生み出すことが実感でき、私たちの現在の取り組みに大きな示唆をもたらした有意義な会となりました。 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以下のアドレスまでご連絡ください。 JPNAcademicTeam@sas.com
From saving cheetahs to preserving fresh water systems, analytics plays a role in many inspiring conservation projects around the world. Read on to learn about a few of our favorites. 1. Protecting animals from extinction Learn how analyzing footprints could help save cheetahs in Namibia and other endangered animals around
No início deste mês tive o prazer de participar como speaker no evento Platform Roadshow – Road2AI promovido pelo SAS. Nesta conferência foram abordados diversos temas interessantes, entre eles Inteligência Artificial, Cloud, Ofertas SAS adequados a diversas expertises. Sob a minha responsabilidade ficou o tema SAS e Open Source –
While we're on the topic of mortgage rates, let's explore another technique for plotting and comparing the rate data over several years. Last time, we plotted each year's data in a separate graph, and paneled them across the page. This time, let's overlay multiple years together in the same graph.
Phil Simon says that the downsides of even a few discrepancies can be enormous.
Many statistical tests use a CUSUM statistic as part of the test. It can be confusing when a researcher refers to "the CUSUM test" without providing details about exactly which CUSUM test is being used. This article describes a CUSUM test for the randomness of a binary sequence. You start
By using data provided by a Game of Thrones fan, we use SAS to look at screen time for scene locations and characters in this crazy popular show.
The financial services industry is under continued pressure to create more convenient ways of paying for goods and services. This trend goes beyond common hype. It’s a cultural shift from long-standing payment methods traditionally defined by industry heavyweights to embracing market demands and delivering customer-centricity. With digitisation, new market entrants
Articolo tradotto e integrato dal post originale di Laurent Colombant In una recente survey della società di consulenza PWC è stato stimato che le frodi nei processi di procurement erano il secondo crimine economico più denunciato a livello mondiale. Si tratta di un termine ampio, che comprende di tutto, dalla
Did you recently lock in a mortgage rate of 3.5-5%, or perhaps even lower? How do today's rates compare to rates in the past? Let's dig a little deeper into this topic, with some graphs! But before we get started, here's a picture to get you into the mood for
The journey of life rarely follows the expected path. Last year around this time I experienced the most devastating loss I will likely ever experience in my life; the loss of our only daughter, Mamie. The grieving process is new to me, as is the earth-shattering devastation of unfulfilled hopes,
I think every course in exploratory data analysis should begin by studying Anscombe's quartet. Anscombe's quartet is a set of four data sets (N=11) that have nearly identical descriptive statistics but different graphical properties. They are a great reminder of why you should graph your data. You can read about
If a bank gets in touch with a software company and wants to know how it could use artificial intelligence (AI), that means two things. First, the bank is willing to consider AI, and second, that it really does not know much about the subject. Banks want AI, and they
L’intelligence artificielle, dont les prémices remontent aux années 1950, se concrétise déjà depuis une dizaine d’années dans le secteur de la santé. Les applications de l’IA dans les hôpitaux apportent de nombreux bénéfices aux patients, équipes médicales et établissements de santé. Jean-François Gourdin, responsable du secteur santé chez SAS, épidémiologiste
Anti-money laundering has been an issue for banks and financial institutions for some time. Transaction monitoring systems have been around for many years. Meeting and complying with regulations at the regional or national level, however, remains a challenge. Many financial institutions are almost playing catch-up with regulators, as anti-money laundering
In the past, I created some graphs about our record low unemployment rate (US unemployment, and state-level unemployment), but does low unemployment also mean there are jobs available? Let's have a look at the data!... Existing Graphs I knew I couldn't be the only one interested in this kind of
A quadratic form is a second-degree polynomial that does not have any linear or constant terms. For multivariate polynomials, you can quickly evaluate a quadratic form by using the matrix expression x` A x This computation is straightforward in a matrix language such as SAS/IML. However, some computations in statistics
More and more organizations are moving to the cloud, but for some moving data isn’t an option. With a remote managed software and services (RMSS) solution deployment, however, it’s still possible to experience the benefits of cloud, without the data or solution ever leaving your premises or existing cloud provider.
Which topics and priorities will be the focus for chief risk officers in 2019? A range of experts and representatives of major banking institutions addressed these questions at a recent event, CRO and CFO Banking Agenda 2019, organised by CeTIF, the Research Center on Technologies, Innovation and Financial Services, in collaboration
Anti-money laundering is an important issue for governments and banks alike. The fight to prevent terrorist financing and profiting from crime means that banks and other financial institutions are increasingly required by regulations to put anti-money laundering systems in place. Many are turning to analytics in the process, and particularly to
At the risk of oversimplifying, I think of artificial intelligence as what becomes possible after you’ve fully embraced analytics and you’re starting to get bolder about how to use it. Your models are getting better, your predictions are more accurate, your results are stronger and over all, confidence grows in
Auf Twitter bin ich auf den schönen Satz gestoßen, formuliert von Kerem Tomak von der Commerzbank: „When you talk about machine learning and AI you have to talk about the usage of cloud! It´s key enabler of Advanced Analytics and AI. It further means business agility and cost efficiency for
