Around the world, violence against women is a huge problem. It has personal, social and economic costs. One study in Europe, for example, estimated that the cost of violence against women runs into hundreds of billions of euros each year. Law enforcement agencies are key to reducing and preventing violence
SAS Visual Forecasting is a powerful and flexible tool that can cover all the forecasting needs of an organisation. Users can automatically produce large-scale time series analyses and hierarchical forecasts – without human involvement. Having both a friendly user interface and a programmatic interface allows everyone to take part in
The COVID-19 pandemic is triggering a debt collection crisis for the energy and utilities sector. How can collections teams control an explosion in delinquent accounts? The collections process is a vital component of any provider's business model, but it’s often an area that doesn’t receive the attention or investment it
In the first part of this blog series, we explored a peculiar phenomenon. A recent Gartner survey indicates that over 50% of marketing leaders are “unimpressed by the results they receive from marketing analytics investments”, yet 85% predicted “significantly more” use of analytics by 2022. If the current approach isn’t
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more ubiquitous, organisations are starting to encounter a big issue: explainability. European law requires that organisations need to be able to explain decisions about individuals, such as whether to grant a loan, extend a line of credit, or even to start a fraud investigation. This
We as a society should actively involve a divers, non-tech-audience into the discussion in the proper usage of AI – it can not be tech experts only discuss what our everyday life is impacting so much already.
Harvard Business Review may have dubbed being a data scientist the “sexiest job of the 21st century”, but that hasn’t necessarily made it easier to find analytics experts. There is still a huge skills gap in data science. Recently I met with Andreas Vermeulen who is Director of Technology and
The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest on our planet. Nowhere else in the world can we find more animal and plant species. Unfortunately, we lose on average 800 square kilometres of forest every day to deforestation for logging, agriculture or road construction. But there is still hope for our
Analytics offers huge potential to transform raw data into operational intelligence. It provides new insights into old or new problems. This is crucial in business – but it is even more important for tackling big societal issues, such as domestic violence or human trafficking. I recently had the opportunity to
The process changes that are taking place in the insurance world are massive. More and more insurance companies allow for remote sales of life products and entire sales processes have been simplified for the benefit of the customer. However, opportunities for abuse arose with them as well. A simpler process
