I recently read an interesting article that claims "a single cremation emits as much carbon dioxide as a 1,000-mile car trip." This got me wondering about cremation data, and I ended up on the Wikipedia page about cremation rates. They had a map of the US cremation rates by state ... but the more
My 2018 SAS Global Forum paper was about "how to use the random-number generators (RNGs) in SAS." You can read the paper for details, but I recently recorded a short video that summarizes the main ideas in the paper. In particular, the video gives an overview of the new RNGs
American readers may know that the ongoing 2018 international soccer/football tournament is a big deal in other countries. But it's hard to grasp just how ubiquitous and important it is when there's no other event like it in the United States. The best way I can describe it is if the
Atualmente, nas organizações existe um enfoque muito grande, na procura da melhor forma de tirar partido das novas capacidades e paradigmas analíticos que têm surgido nos últimos anos. Dois fatores têm sido fundamentais como força motriz da utilização da analítica ao serviço das organizações: A disrupção do digital e a
With all the technology advancements and innovative trends driving Industry 4.0 right now, you might expect geeky topics like the Internet of Things (IoT) or artificial intelligence (AI) to be the hottest topics of discussion among industry leaders. Instead, many leaders are still more focused on workplace culture. And here’s
What do the New York Mets, the Orlando Magic and the Boston Bruins all have in common? They all use SAS analytics to gain deeper insights into athlete recruitment, retention, performance, safety and more. And after seeing the success teams like these have had using analytics, collegiate sports are turning
If you use PROC SGPLOT to create ODS graphics, "ATTRS" are everywhere. ATTRS is an abbreviation of "attributes." Most options that change the attributes of a graphical element end with the ATTRS suffix. For example, the MARKERATTRS option modifies attributes of markers, the LINEATTRS option modifies attributes of lines, and
Quando falamos em analíticas, do seu impacto e oportunidades nas organizações, poucos sectores são tão impactados como o sector financeiro (banca e seguradoras). Não só pela quantidade de dados envolvidos, mas também pela inerência do negócio. Mas isto é algo que está a mudar. O tema esteve em debate no
We have updated our software for improved interpretability since this post was written. For the latest on this topic, read our new series on model-agnostic interpretability. Assessing a model`s accuracy usually is not enough for a data scientist who wants to know more about how a model is working. Often
미래에 대한 좋은 소식이 있습니다. 어디선가 들어봤을지도 모르지만 인공지능(AI)과 함께하는 미래 일자리가 모두 절망적이고 암울한 것만은 아닙니다. 말콤 프랭크(Malcolm Frank)의 연구 기반 저서 ‘기계가 모든 것을 할 때 무엇을 해야 하는가(What to Do When Machines Do Everything’는 데이터를 통해 이를 증명합니다. 또 학생과 근로자는 새로운 교육 접근법을 통해 인공지능과 함께하는 미래에 더욱
Kim Kaluba explains why good customer data management starts with trusted data quality.
As parents, sometimes we barely have time to eat, much less read books or listen to hour long seminars on parenting. In this 3 Minute Parenting Tip, you will learn about 3 important strategies to make your rewards or consequences work; no matter the age of your child.
My local middle school publishes a weekly paper. Very recently, I noted an article in that paper regarding an expose on human trafficking overseas, "World Slavery: The Terrors Our World Tries to Forget." The eloquent article in part highlighted how children have been exploited in the fishing industry in Ghana
In SAS, the reserved keyword _NULL_ specifies a SAS data set that has no observations and no variables. When you specify _NULL_ as the name of an output data set, the output is not written. The _NULL_ data set is often used when you want to execute DATA step code
It will be years, perhaps decades, before we fully realize how the Internet of Things (IoT) changed our lives for the better. By then, we won’t be calling it the Internet of Things, or IoT, anymore, and some of us will wax nostalgic as we reflect on the good ol’
Ein Mythos ist in seiner ursprünglichen Bedeutung eine Erzählung. Mythen erheben traditionell einen Anspruch auf Wahrheit. Doch gerade an diesem Wahrheitsanspruch gibt es immer wieder Kritik. Ein Beispiel: Ist es ein Mythos, dass hier in Heidelberg die älteste deutschsprachige Universität steht? Nein, es ist eine Teilwahrheit. Denn es ist die
I recently recorded a short video about the new syntax for specifying and manipulating lists in SAS/IML 14.3. This is a video of my Super Demo at SAS Global Forum 2018. The new syntax supports dynamic arrays, associative arrays ("named lists"), and hierarchical data structures such as lists of lists.
Sequence models, especially recurrent neural network (RNN) and similar variants, have gained tremendous popularity over the last few years because of their unparalleled ability to handle unstructured sequential data. The reason these models are called “recurrent” is that they work with data that occurs in a sequence, such as text
Num mundo de incertezas e desafios económicos, a importância da monitorização e medição do desempenho das organizações, conhecendo os comportamentos dos seus clientes e cumprindo as exigências regulatórias tornou-se evidente. Neste sentido, a Gestão de Informação, o Business Intelligence e o Analytics assim como a sua boa implementação, tornaram-se fatores críticos para a sobrevivência
2018년 5월 25일 유럽 일반개인정보보호법(GDPR)이 발효됐습니다. 전 세계 수많은 기업과 기관이 GDPR에 어떻게 대응할 것인가에 대해 오랜 시간 논의해 왔고, 소프트웨어 제조 업체와 컨설팅 업체는 기업이 새로운 규제 요건을 보다 잘 충족할 수 있도록 솔루션과 접근 방식을 개발, 출시해왔습니다. GDPR이 시행된 후 불확실성이 점차 해소되면서 많은 기업이 GDPR을 개인 정보와
Light lengthens the day and allows us more time to learn, socialize, contemplate and create. Exploring NASA nighttime satellite images shows how illumination patterns have changed over time. Increases and decreases in illumination show the effects of human civilization on earth. From population collapse and destruction in war zones to economic
Das Gesundheitssystem in Deutschland sieht sich mittel- und langfristig vor große finanzielle Herausforderungen gestellt. Zum Teil ist dies wohl das Ergebnis des eigenen Erfolgs. Der kontinuierliche Fortschritt bei medizinischen Behandlungsmethoden hat dazu geführt, dass immer mehr Krankheiten erfolgreich behandelt werden können. Aus diesem Grunde erfreuen sich die Menschen einer immer
The SURVEYSELECT procedure in SAS 9.4M5 supports the OUTRANDOM option, which causes the selected items in a simple random sample to be randomly permuted after they are selected. This article describes several statistical tasks that benefit from this option, including simulating card games, randomly permuting observations in a DATA step,
You've probably seen in the news that a volcano erupted in Guatemala recently. But do you really know much about this volcano, or even where it's located? Hopefully this blog post will get you up to speed on your volcanology! Pictures of a recent volcano erupting in Hawaii show slow-moving
SAS코리아와 행정안전부가 함께하는 <제 16회 SAS 분석 챔피언십> 공모전 접수가 시작됐습니다. 2002년부터 매해 진행되어온 SAS 분석 챔피언십은 정교한 분석 주제, 고품질의 데이터, 전문 심사 과정을 통해 차세대 데이터 사이언티스트를 양성해온 국내 대표 빅데이터 분석 공모전입니다. 행정안전부가 후원하고 한국데이터마이닝학회의 자문으로 진행되는 이번 공모전은 ‘대형사고는 이유 없이 일어나지 않는다’라는 주제로 대학생과 대학원생들의 빅데이터
Everything's big in Texas - at least that's what they say! Therefore let's have a bit of graphical fun, and use Texas as a unit of measure (let's call it a 'tex'). More on that later - but first, here's a picture of my friend Jennifer posing beside a rather
Números recordes para aquele é o maior evento de advanced analytics em Portugal: 1.400 inscritos no SAS Fórum Portugal 2018. Durante um dia especialistas debateram tendências, partilharam experiências e fizeram antevisões do futuro. Com a convicção de que as analíticas vieram para ficar. Estarão em todo o lado, todos terão
GDPR requires more than a simple privacy policy update. David Loshin outlines changes needed in the data management environment.
Years ago, I wrote an article about how to create a Top 10 table and bar chart. The program can be trivially modified to create a "Top N" table and plot, such as Top 5, Top 20, or even Top 100. Not long after the article was written, the developer
With talk of tariffs in the news lately, I'm sure everyone is curious about possible ways to bypass them. One possible loophole is using the foreign-trade zones (FTZs) in the US. What are FTZs, and where are they located? Read along and find out!... The Foreign-Trade Zone act was passed in
