Innovation is currently an extremely desirable feature for every country. However, a ranking published by the European Commission shows that Poland is struggling to create an environment that supports development. Development and innovation need people with competence in new technologies, such as analytics. Last year’s Modelling for Business conference showed
What analytics architecture is needed to support an accelerator? I have recently been working with my colleague Jussi Martikka to extract lessons from the City of Helsinki’s AI Experimentation Accelerator work. We used the steps of the accelerator process to define the analytics architecture needed. This was a useful way
Whenever I talk to actuaries across EMEA, they are very consistent in the many anchor points they see for actuarial modernization in order to be future-proof. In this article, I would like to share some of them. Anchor points for actuarial innovation The most time-consuming task is, of course, getting
The popular image of data scientists is very much a bit of a geek or nerd. However, that’s not strictly accurate. It may not be – as Harvard Business Review famously suggested – the sexiest job of the 21st century. But it is a long way from the perceived world
To get 100% right at a test is something that does not happen every day. But it is achievable. There are different ways of getting a high score and here is one example. Laurent Barmaverain - a business intelligence and data science master's degree student at the university of Turin,
The pandemic may have other implications for manufacturing. For example, we could see factories moving away from a reliance on physical labour.
Analytics can help to surface broad macro-scale issues about productivity, demand, and ideal methods of cultivation.
Local government gets some bad press. There is no doubt that some could be better, but many are strongly focused on delivering high-quality services for their citizens. However, these "good news" stories seldom make the press – even in local newspapers in slow weeks. Like most public sector organisations around
My name is Carlotta Pacifici, I’m 25 years old and I live in Rome. Last November, I started an internship at SAS while completing my degree course in statistics at the University of Rome La Sapienza. How it began I first got to know SAS in the first year of
In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on financial crime in both public and private entities. The press coverage of money laundering, tax fraud and employee embezzlement of public funds is greater than it has been in the past several years. This increased awareness leads to an increasing
