Called out as two common IT threads in my previous blog post, how do artificial intelligence and automation connect with another prominent movement, the Internet of Things (IoT)? First, consider these predictions from IDC on IoT. By 2020, At least 45 percent of IoT-created data will be stored, processed, analyzed
Why do people donate money to politicians and political parties? Sometimes it's because they agree with the platform, but sometimes it might be for potential financial benefits. When it comes to large donations from Fortune 500 companies, I suspect the latter! And since politics has been in the news a
We asked banking leaders. Here’s a sneak peek of our findings in advance of our June 12 webinar How important is customer experience in banking today? Very. It's the number one business challenge banks face, surpassing even regulatory compliance, because it links directly to revenue. And the stakes are only
What can you learn from a chief data scientist who's worked in analytics for for 25 years and has been involved in the development of many key SAS solutions, including SAS Enterprise Miner? As a veteran of the analytics industry, Wayne Thompson has witnessed the evolution of machine learning and
A previous article showed how to use a calibration plot to visualize the goodness-of-fit for a logistic regression model. It is common to overlay a scatter plot of the binary response on a predicted probability plot (below, left) and on a calibration plot (below, right): The SAS program that creates
Remember when electric vehicles were a new thing? Just a few years ago, everywhere we turned there were opinions, white papers, and articles espousing the wonders of electric vehicles, and an equal chorus of voices warning of the dangers and challenges of electric vehicles. Would they blow up half of
According to a recent Bloomberg article, this year the United States passed Hong Kong and Singapore to become the country with the world's most competitive economy! They say, "The U.S. dethroned Hong Kong to retake first place among the world's most competitive economies, thanks to faster economic growth and a
Die Steuerbehörden sind wahrscheinlich nicht jedermanns Lieblingsorganisationen. Aber überall auf der Welt spielen sie eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Erhebung von Einnahmen, die es den Regierungen ermöglichen, Geld für wichtige öffentliche Dienstleistungen auszugeben. Man braucht nur die Medienberichterstattung über die Steuerhinterziehung einiger großer Technologieunternehmen zu lesen und die dazugehörigen Bemühungen der
Maybe you’ve heard of text analytics (or natural language processing) as a way to analyze consumer sentiment. Businesses often use these techniques to analyze customer complaints or comments on social media, to identify when a response is needed. But text analytics has far more to offer than examining posts on
작은 정보 하나라도 범죄 조직 전체를 드러내는 실마리가 될 수 있습니다. 그렇지만 법 집행 환경은 점점 더 복잡해지고 있으며, 조사관은 유례 없이 많은 양의 데이터를 직면하고 있는데요. 조사나 인텔리전스 개발 활동의 핵심은 이러한 데이터에서 의미를 찾고 잘 드러나지 않는 연결고리를 이해하는 것입니다. 데이터와 분석은 행동으로 옮길 수 있는 인텔리전스를 식별하고 수사를
The SAS language provides syntax that enables you to quickly specify a list of variables. SAS statements that accept variable lists include the KEEP and DROP statements, the ARRAY statement, and the OF operator for comma-separated arguments to some functions. You can also use variable lists on the VAR statements
Nos últimos tempos tem-se falado muito de criptomoedas, Blockchain... mas exactamente o que é que essa tecnologia faz e de que forma irá impactar as empresas? Perguntas que o Business Analytics fez a Sam Penfield, Advisory Solutions Architect no SAS, um especialista em consultadoria e desenvolvimento de software que, nos
Im Rahmen meiner Tätigkeit im Vertrieb von Compliance-Software-Lösungen bin ich hauptsächlich im Bankensegment unterwegs, zunehmend aber auch bei Versicherungen. Dank kluger CRM-Systeme wird mir bewusst gemacht, dass ich in acht Jahren etwa 1.600 Gespräche mit den Verantwortlichen für Geldwäsche- und Betrugsprävention geführt habe. Das ist unfassbar. Wir „Vertriebler“ produzieren zwar
The BFD on RFPs Software selection teams are prone to issuing lengthy requests for information (RFIs) or requests for proposals (RFPs), with page after page of check boxes for so-called requirements. Vendors stay in contention by dutifully checking off each box as either “available now,” “available in next release,” or
3월 라스베이거스에서 전 세계 4만명 이상의 헬스케어 IT 전문가, 임상의, 기업 경영진 등이 참여한 가운데 세계적인 헬스케어 IT 컨퍼런스 ‘HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society)’가 개최됐습니다. 기조연설을 맡은 에릭 슈미트(Eric Schmidt) 전 구글 CEO는 인간 중심 의료(person-centered care)의 중요성에 대해 역설하며 주목 받았는데요. 이어 무대에 오른 시마 버마(Seema Verma) 미국 의료서비스센터(CMS)
When you realize your organization has a forecasting problem, what do you do to solve it? In particular, if you realize you need new forecasting software, how do you begin to find it? All too often, the first step in a software selection process is the Request for Proposal (RFP)
Have you ever tried to plot data on a map of Antarctica ... and been thoroughly frustrated or confused? If you're that person, or even a seasoned map maker wanting to hone your skills, then this blog post is for you! But first, here is a picture to get you
Customer Experience entscheidet über den Geschäftserfolg – und zwar in jeder Branche. Für Unternehmen, die das verstanden haben, ergibt sich der Rest wie von selbst. Das positive Kundenerlebnis sollte immer im Fokus stehen, denn es ist die Bedingung für Kundentreue und -bindung – und kann letztlich den Umsatz erhöhen. Der
Ich sehe es vor meinem geistigen Auge … … den Head of Customer Experience, wie er mir das mit seinem treusten Blick entgegnet, als ich leicht aufbegehrte, dass ich auch beim 385. Mal keinen neuen Kredit oder Auslandsreiseversicherung oder, oder, oder kaufen wollte … Strategieberater sind sich einig: Customer Experience
치타가 멸종 위기 동물이라는 사실, 알고 계셨나요? 치타의 개체 수는 지난 세기 동안 93% 감소했습니다. 또 치타는 기존 아프리카 서식지의 76%에서 더 이상 발견되지 않습니다. 분석과 인공지능(AI)으로 치타와 같이 멸종 위기에 처한 동물을 보호할 수 있다면? 그리고 그 과정에 여러분 모두가 참여할 수 있다면 어떨까요? 동물 보호 비영리 단체 와일드트랙(WildTrack)은 발자국과 클라우드소싱에서
Poverty. It's a bit difficult to define who lives in poverty - I guess it's a relative thing, and depends on the standard of living of the people around you. Today we're going to take a look at the child poverty rates in several 'rich' countries (such as the United
In this first of two posts, Phil Simon chimes in on the prospect of data protection regulation in the US.
SAS author Jane Eslinger shows give you tips for working with PROC TEMPLATE when diving into the Output Delivery System (ODS) world. Learn how to create a custom style template to get the stylized output you want.
In August 2017, Britta Gross spoke about General Motors’ perspective on bringing electric vehicles (and their derivatives) to market. Her point of view reaffirmed GM's research on consumer awareness of electric vehicles (only 60 percent) and consumer adoption concerns with this emerging technology. She also revealed the portfolio of cars
This article shows how to construct a butterfly plot in SAS. A butterfly plot (also called a butterfly chart) is a comparative bar chart or histogram that displays the distribution of a variable for two subpopulations. A butterfly plot for the cholesterol readings of 5,057 patients in a medical study
Amor e matemática. Quase não se consegue imaginar dois mundos mais afastados. No entanto Hannah Fry provou que as matemáticas podem descobrir o segredo de um relacionamento bem-sucedido e prever um divórcio. Conversámos com a professora da UCL e perguntámos sobre a relação que os humanos têm com as novas
Andy Dufresne, the wrongly convicted character in The Shawshank Redemption, provocatively asks the prison guard early in the film: “Do you trust your wife?” It’s a dead serious question regarding avoiding taxes on a recent financial windfall that had come the guard's way, and leads to events that eventually win
You can still register for the 38th annual International Symposium on Forecasting, being held June 17-20 in Boulder, Colorado, at the foothills of the Rockies. Beyond the daily keynotes and over 150 presentations of new research, a separate Practitioner Track features talks on the application of forecasting research to organizational
In a recent blog post, Chris Hemedinger used a scatter plot to show the result of 100 coin tosses. Chris arranged the 100 results in a 10 x 10 grid, where the first 10 results were shown on the first row, the second 10 were shown on the second row, and so
SASでは、従来からSAS Viyaの機能をPythonなど各種汎用プログラミング言語から利用するためのパッケージであるSWATを提供していました。 これに加え、よりハイレベルなPython向けAPIパッケージであるDLPyの提供も開始され、PythonからViyaの機能をより効率的に活用することが可能となっています。 ※DLPyの詳細に関しては以下サイトをご覧ください。 https://github.com/sassoftware/python-dlpy DLPyとは DLPyの機能（一部抜粋） １．DLPyとは DLPyは、Viya3.3以降のディープラーニングと画像処理（image action set）のために作成された、Python API向けハイレベルパッケージです。DLPyではKerasに似たAPIを提供し、ディープラーニングと画像処理のコーディングの効率化が図られています。既存のKerasのコードをほんの少し書き換えるだけで、SAS Viya上でその処理を実行させることも可能になります。 例えば、以下はCNNの層の定義例です。Kerasに酷似していることがわかります。 DLPyでサポートしているレイヤは、InputLayer, Conv2d, Pooling, Dense, Recurrent, BN, Res, Proj, OutputLayer、です。 以下は学習時の記述例です。 ２．DLPyの機能（一部抜粋） 複数のイルカとキリンの画像をCNNによって学習し、そのモデルにテスト画像を当てはめて予測する内容を例に、DLPyの機能（一部抜粋）を紹介します。 ２－１．メジャーなディープラーニング・ネットワークの実装 DLPyでは、事前に構築された以下のディープラーニングモデルを提供しています。 VGG11/13/16/19、 ResNet34/50/101/152、 wide_resnet、 dense_net また、以下のモデルでは、ImageNetのデータを使用した事前学習済みのweightsも提供（このweightsは転移学習によって独自のタスクに利用可能）しています。 VGG16、VGG19、ResNet50、ResNet101、ResNet152 以下は、ResNet50の事前学習済みのweightsを転移している例です。 ２－２．CNNの判断根拠情報 heat_map_analysis()メソッドを使用し、画像の何処に着目したのかをカラフルなヒートマップとして出力し、確認することができます。 また、get_feature_maps()メソッドを使用し、CNNの各層の特徴マップ（feature map）を取得し、feature_maps.display()メソッドを使用し、取得されたfeature mapの層を指定して表示し、確認することもできます。 以下は、レイヤー１のfeature mapの出力結果です。 以下は、レイヤー１８のfeature mapの出力結果です。 ２－３．ディープラーニング＆画像処理関連タスク支援機能 ２－３－１．resize()メソッド：画像データのリサイズ ２－３－２．as_patches()メソッド：画像データ拡張（元画像からパッチを生成） ２－３－３．two_way_split()メソッド：データ分割（学習、テスト） ２－３－４．plot_network()メソッド：定義したディープラーニングの層（ネットワーク）の構造をグラフィカルな図として描画 ２－３－５．plot_training_history()メソッド：反復学習の履歴表示
