Advanced Analytics

Iain BrownNovember 17, 2022 0

3 benefits of bringing enterprise-level AI to small and medium-sized businesses

From rising operating costs to wage inflation, business leaders are facing challenges on an unprecedented scale. For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular, this is driving the need for more in-depth data gathering, understanding and insight generation to inform smarter decision making and identify cost-saving opportunities. Some might remember

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Communications

Advanced Analytics

Billy DickersonNovember 17, 2022 0

Powering disruption: A DevOps journey at SAS

Billy Dickerson of SAS R&D chronicles three key challenges and lessons learned in SAS' journey to continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD).

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Customer Intelligence | Work & Life at SAS

Juan MonteroNovember 16, 2022 0

How transformation is shifting the COO’s role towards innovation

The role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) is interesting. It’s a relatively new role—and there is also relatively little consensus about the job description. In some organisations, the COO is the de facto deputy CEO. They have their fingers in most pies, from operational to strategic initiatives. In others, the

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Work & Life at SAS

Kelly Gehle, MS, RDN, LDN, IFNCPNovember 16, 2022 0

Getting salty: how much is too much?

If you read this previous blog about types of salt (sodium chloride), you might recall that I mentioned salt is an essential nutrient. The body uses salt to maintain fluid levels and support muscle and nerve function. Sodium is critical for heart, liver and kidney function. Chloride, the other part

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinNovember 16, 2022 0

Optimal linear profile plots in SAS

A profile plot is a way to display multivariate values for many subjects. The optimal linear profile plot was introduced by John Hartigan in his book Clustering Algorithms (1975). In Michael Friendly's book (SAS System for Statistical Graphics, 1991), Friendly shows how to construct an optimal linear profile by using

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinNovember 14, 2022 0

Profile plots in SAS

A profile plot is a compact way to visualize many variables for a set of subjects. It enables you to investigate which subjects are similar to or different from other subjects. Visually, a profile plot can take many forms. This article shows several profile plots: a line plot of the

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Cindy TurnerNovember 13, 2022 0

Do you know these 8 terms? Fraudsters and scammers do.

Scammers and fraudsters love these 8 terms. Learn what they mean so you won’t be a victim.

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Analytics

Rik de RuiterNovember 9, 2022 0

How analytics helps NVWA become more data-driven and effective

In the public sector, agencies and organizations are increasingly using analytics to prioritize and plan their activities. In a sector characterized by the need to get value for money for the public, and often with limited resources, using data-driven work processes is essential. The NVWA, Dutch Food and Consumer Product

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Government

Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Kevin ScottNovember 9, 2022 0

SAS® Fast-KPCA: An efficient and innovative nonlinear principal components method

SAS® Fast-KPCA implementation bypasses the limitations of exact KPCA methods. SAS® internally uses k-means to find a representative sample of a subset of points. This row reduction method has the advantage that c centroids are chosen to minimize the variation of points nearest to each centroid and maximize the variation to the other cluster centroids. In some cases, the downstream effect of using k-means on computing the SVD increases numerical stability and improves clustering, discrimination, and classification.

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Caslee SimsNovember 9, 2022 0

3 principles that emphasize productivity for your analytics platform

More digital channels are bringing greater connectivity and more data is bringing added complexity to organizations. All this can feel chaotic or like a fog of information warfare. As a result, the pace of disruption and data expansion require visual tools that accelerate data wrangling and modeling. To overcome complexity,

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Work & Life at SAS

Kelly Gehle, MS, RDN, LDN, IFNCPNovember 9, 2022 0

Getting salty: what kind of salt should you use?

Should you be using table salt, sea salt or kosher salt to season your food? Which is better? There are all kinds of options for salt these days, but are they really that different?

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Leonid BatkhanNovember 8, 2022 0

SAS administrator tip: How to identify and prevent duplicate librefs in SAS metadata

In this SAS administration tutorial Leonid Batkhan presents various SAS programming solutions on how to identify and prevent duplicate LIBREFs in SAS 9 metadata.

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Analytics

Ischa van der MolenNovember 8, 2022 0

Why democratizing analytics will lead to better policy decisions

Many EU institutions are discovering the benefits of analytics to support policy decisions. But ultimately, no one has more potential to enrich output quality than policymakers themselves. Therefore, the entire organization must understand AI and analytics well. We call this the democratization of AI, bringing together the ideas of data

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Government

Advanced Analytics

Yogender KushawahNovember 8, 2022 0

Using sequence action set to mine long sequences

SAS' Yogender Kushawah introduces you to mining long sequences efficiently using the seqmc action in SAS Visual Analytics.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinNovember 7, 2022 0

The area of the convex hull of random points

I recently blogged about how to compute the area of the convex hull of a set of planar points. This article discusses the expected value of the area of the convex hull for n random uniform points in the unit square. The article introduces an exact formula (due to Buchta,

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Students & Educators

Brock MatthewsNovember 4, 2022 0

Innovative higher education analytics projects and influential tech leaders honored by EdScoop

Higher Education has been slow to adopt analytics in comparison to the commercial sector, but those institutions that have embraced a culture of analytics have seen significant and tangible results. Higher Education analytics can help in nearly every corner of academia including enrollment and retention, student success, academic research and

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Education

Programming Tips | Work & Life at SAS

Joseph CastleNovember 4, 2022 0

Building an open source software community

Joseph Castle offers some important considerations that will help you when building and working in an OSS community.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Lisa LucasNovember 3, 2022 0

Addressing maternal and infant health disparities with analytics and policy changes

Childbirth should be a safe and joyous occasion as parents welcome a new member into their family. Still, too often, that joy is overshadowed by maternal complications, including maternal and infant death. Each year in the United States, as many as 60,000 women experience severe, unexpected health problems related to

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Health Care

Work & Life at SAS

Pam ColeNovember 2, 2022 0

Protective Eyewear: A Trend You Should Follow!

Okay, I know what you’re thinking, protective eyewear is not the latest trend hitting the runway this Fall! But perhaps it should be. Did you know that 90% of the eye injuries each year (over 2.5 million world wide per the American Academy of Ophthalmology) could be prevented with protective

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Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinNovember 2, 2022 0

The area and perimeter of a convex hull

The area of a convex hull enables you to estimate the area of a compact region from a set of discrete observations. For example, a biologist might have multiple sightings of a wolf pack and want to use the convex hull to estimate the area of the wolves' territory. A

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data for Good

Nicholas QuirkeNovember 1, 2022 0

How students are using analytics to address poverty

For many countries, their plan for the future focuses on a transition to a smart jobs economy. And for many organisations, the key to thriving in an innovative jobs economy centres on bringing talented individuals—with a particular focus on technology—and connecting them with roles that best utilise their talents. Talent

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Advanced Analytics

Xi JiangNovember 1, 2022 0

Risk driver analysis for complex supply chains

SAS' Bahar Biller and Xi Jiang use the example of a semiconductor manufacturing plant to illustrate the role of sensitivity analysis in assessing supply chain risk.

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Programming Tips

Dr. Christian FG SchenderaNovember 1, 2022 0

Unexpected results from missing values with PROC SQL

SAS SQL handles missing values differently than the ANSI standard for SQL. PROC SQL follows the SAS convention for handling missing values: numerical missing values are always interpreted as less or smaller than all nonmissing values. My first blog showed that missing values can be troublemakers in non-grouped descriptive statistics.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinOctober 31, 2022 0

A trick to combine and split strings

Every year, I write a special article for Halloween in which I show a SAS programming TRICK that is a real TREAT! This year, the trick is to concatenate two strings into a single string in a way that guarantees you can always recover the original strings. I learned this

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Jen DunhamOctober 28, 2022 0

3 ways NCDOT is transforming transportation through data and analytics

With dynamically changing revenue streams, critical infrastructure needs and current higher-than-average gas prices and inflation concerns, transportation agencies around the country are using data to enable analytically driven decisions while navigating complex business challenges. Today's transportation industry is ripe with opportunities for innovation and growth. And this is especially true

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Government

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Dragos ColesOctober 28, 2022 0

Deployment of a Multi-stage Computer Vision model with SAS Event Stream Processing

I will show you how to deploy multi-stage deep learning (DL) models in SAS Event Stream Processing (ESP) and leverage ESP on Edge via Docker containers to identify events of interest.

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Machine Learning

Diana RothfussOctober 27, 2022 0

Machine learning models for payment fraud

Fraud detection is becoming increasingly more complex. Customers are demanding a frictionless consumer experience. Luckily, SAS' advanced machine learning models can better prevent fraud and protect customers by analyzing behaviors and detecting suspicious patterns in real-time.

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Analytics | SAS Events

Josh MorganOctober 26, 2022 0

Talking mental health, analytics and whole person care with Mayim Bialik

Question: This neuroscientist and SAS Explore host is known for appearing on "Blossom," "The Big Bang Theory" and "Jeopardy." Answer: Who is Mayim Bialik, Ph.D.? Today, instead of Bialik quizzing us, I got to be the lucky one to quiz her on some of her favorite topics, like mental health,

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Analytics | SAS Events

Cindy TurnerOctober 26, 2022 0

Poker, risk and the game of life: An interview with Liv Boeree

Liv Boeree answers our questions about the game of poker – and life.

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Work & Life at SAS

Ashley Bailey, MS, RDN, LDN, IFNCPOctober 26, 2022 0

Beginner's guide to H Mart: pantry essentials and snacks

Shopping at an Asian grocery store can be intimidating. Hopefully the fruits and vegetables guide has helped you gain some confidence in navigating Asian markets. As you continue to explore and expand your selections, try these pantry essentials and snacks.

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