I can vividly remember the way flowers made me feel when I was a child. There was something magical about a plant that emerged from the ground, reaching for the light to finally bloom into pops of color. I feel the same way today and want to share what I've
During a SAS Hackathon, Zencos set out to help veterans reintegrate into a rapidly changing job market and discover potential career paths. Life after the military can be challenging, especially when it comes to finding meaningful employment that utilizes a returning service member’s unique knowledge and skills. Veterans must navigate the
By starting from a set of purely declarative statements, any zebra puzzle with limited constraints can be tagged and solved quickly in the same way without changing any code.
The graph to the right is the quantile function for the standard normal distribution, which is sometimes called the probit function. Given any probability, p, the quantile function gives the value, x, such that the area under the normal density curve to the left of x is exactly p. This
Have you ever heard something referred to as the bee’s knees? Most likely the person uttering that expression meant that it was truly amazing and extraordinary. Maybe you stopped and pondered the origin of the phrase. Well wonder no more! In the 1920s in the United States, people were obsessed
Oh, no! Your boss just told you to change the way that SAS displays certain features in graphs, such as missing values. But you have a library of hundreds of SAS programs! Do you need to modify all of your previous programs? Fortunately, the answer is no. SAS provides ODS
Editors note: This is the first in a series of articles. According to the Global McKinsey Survey on the State of AI in 2021, the adoption of AI is continuing to grow at an unprecedented rate. Fifty-six percent of all respondents reported AI adoption – including machine learning (ML) –
In an article about how to visualize missing data in a heat map, I noted that the SAS SG procedures (such as PROC SGPLOT) use the GraphMissing style element to color a bar or tile that represents a missing value. In the HTMLBlue ODS style, the color for missing values
Traditionally, banks have been seen as the front line in anti-money laundering activity. They have increasingly been subject to regulatory requirements to check customers, transactions and activity. However, as governments have required banks to make fraudulent activity harder, criminals have evolved their tactics. And the financial sector needs to keep
Traffic collisions are the second leading cause of firefighter deaths in the United States and most of these collisions occur at intersections. That statistic, together with a vision to apply a combination of AI and IoT to find a solution for all emergency vehicle collisions inspired the Team Hackanadians in
I was recently told that an organization had tried to implement AI for forecasting in supply chain but had failed due to poor data. This got me thinking about exactly what the impacts of poor data would be. And whether the approaches I had applied elsewhere could help. It's probably
Over the last two years, the Future of Work has been the topic of fervent discussion: Is the traditional office dead? Is hybrid work possible? Will we all go remote? Recently, with the decrease in COVID-19 case numbers and return to semi-normalcy, conversation about the Future of Work has changed
Gartner first openly used the term "hyperautomation" in 2019. But what is it? How will it benefit your organization? And what are we hyperautomating? In this post, I discuss what we are hyperautomating and how the convergence of technology and decision maturity made it possible. If you are still curious about
In 2021, the RFC and ABLE Employee Inclusion Group teamed up to find out more about fitness, wellness, and recreation experiences of people with disabilities at SAS. The goal was to understand employees' individual and collective experiences with the RFC, and opportunities to enhance accessibility and inclusivity of programs offered.
This blog post was written by Dr. Maryam S. Jaffer, Director Data and Statistics, Emirates Health Services; Dr. Bashar Balish, Senior Director, Cerner; and Michel Ghorayeb, UAE Managing Director, SAS. The future of health care has never been more exciting. Artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics have captured center stage
Longitudinal data are measurements for a set of subjects at multiple points in time. Also called "panel data" or "repeated measures data," this kind of data is common in clinical trials in which patients are tracked over time. Recently, a SAS programmer asked how to visualize missing values in a
SAS' Brian Gaines provides a primer on GAMs.
When I started working at SAS in 2005, one of the most popular ways to use SAS software was the SAS Analytics Pro bundle on SAS®9. And why not? It provided all the analytics power of trusty SAS Display Manager coupled with the elegance and ease of use of SAS®
Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships. ― Winona LaDuke As we continue to “celebrate a world of flavors” by nourishing ourselves, appreciating our diversity and trying new foods and flavors, enjoy this insider's look into dishes that hold a special
This article shows how to compute properties of a discrete probability distribution from basic definitions. You can use the definitions to compute the mean, variance, and median of a discrete probability distribution when there is no simple formula for those quantities. This article is motivated by two computational questions about
In my previous blog, you saw how to create a Beale cipher. In this blog, you will see a program that can decode a Beale cipher. As a reminder, here is a list of numbers that you can use as a substitute for a letter when creating your cipher. Now,
While studying business intelligence as an undergraduate student at business school HEC Montreal, Camille Duchesne encountered Cortex, an analytics simulation that pits participants against each other to develop the most accurate models for a particular task. In this case, the simulation supports a fictional charity by predicting which subjects from
Statistical programmers need to access numerical constants that help us to write robust and accurate programs. Specifically, it is necessary to know when it is safe to perform numerical operations such as raising a number to a power without exceeding the largest number that is representable in finite-precision arithmetic. This
One approach to creating the Wordle game in the SAS programming language. Ready to play?
A previous article showed how to use SAS to compute finite-difference derivatives of smooth vector-valued multivariate functions. The article uses the NLPFDD subroutine in SAS/IML to compute the finite-difference derivatives. The article states that the third output argument of the NLPFDD subroutine "contains the matrix product J`*J, where J is
For the last three weeks, our Work/Life series on Coping with Symptoms of Anxiety and Worry has sent out short videos with strategies shared by Alex Harrison, LCSW, Alumni and Family Liaison for ERC/Pathlight Mood and Anxiety Center. Below you'll find all three videos on demand. Video One: Understanding
Money laundering is a growing threat within the insurance industry. The regulatory framework within banking is adding stronger controls and governance processes which will encourage launderers to seek alternative areas to launder funds. While insurance presents a different type of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) risk, the risks still exist. Long considered
SAS' Xuejun Liao weighs the pros and cons of collaborative filtering and supervised learning and explores their use in a unified framework.
Wes was ready for a change. “I wasn’t happy in my previous role, and decided to embark on a job search. I came across the role at SAS on LinkedIn and immediately applied,” Wes recounts. “The position was perfectly aligned to my career goals and aspirations – it almost felt
On this Pi Day, let's explore the "πth roots of unity." (Pi Day is celebrated in the US on 3/14 to celebrate π ≈ 3.14159....) It's okay if you've never heard of the πth roots of unity. This article starts by reviewing the better-known nth roots of unity. It then
