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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management | Data Visualization

Charlie ChaseApril 26, 2022 0

Misnomers regarding outliers and their usefulness in statistical modeling

Outliers provide much-needed insights into the actual relationships that influence the demand for products in the marketplace. They are particularly useful when modeling consumer behavior where abnormalities are common occurrences or unforeseen disruptions that impact consumer demand. But why do demand planners cleanse out outliers, when many are not really

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Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics

Alex CoopApril 25, 2022 0

Mastering the art of persuasion: SAS Safe Roads contest helps develop students’ storytelling skills

As companies continue to amass zettabytes of data, the talent hunt for data scientists who can create clarity out of all the noise, has never been greater. But one of the greatest challenges a data scientist faces is communicating the uncovered insights wrangled from the relevant data to decision-makers. To

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinApril 25, 2022 0

Two perspectives on numerical integration

To a numerical analyst, numerical integration has two meanings. Numerical integration often means solving a definite integral such as $$int_{a}^b f(s) , ds$$. Numerical integration is also called quadrature because it computes areas. The other meaning applies to solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs). My article about new methods for solving

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Data Visualization

Dan HeathApril 23, 2022 0

Optimizing bar label placement

When creating bar charts, it is very common to display labels with the bars to make it easier to determine the bar values or to provide additional information in the chart. However, these labels can take away valuable data space, particularly if you generate a smaller-sized graph. As you see

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Analytics

Lee Ann DietzApril 22, 2022 0

Earth Day 2022 – an interview with SAS specialists about analytics and climate resilience

Leaders from businesses and governments across the world continue to show progress on a range of critical environmental topics, addressing climate resilience and taking actions to ensure a more sustainable and thriving planet. Advancements and innovations continue to open new avenues for environmental leadership – and the use of data

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AgTech | Education | Energy & Utilities | Government

Advanced Analytics

World Creativity and Innovation Week

Udo SglavoApril 21, 2022 0

World Creativity & Innovation Week 2022: The Return - Part 2

In the second of two Q&As with R&D colleagues, SAS' Udo Sglavo provides a window into how we approach drug-development challenges with machine learning.

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Work & Life at SAS

Celeste CooperApril 20, 2022 0

Flower Power: Transforming with Flower Essences (part 2)

In our last article, Flower Power - Exploring Flower Essences, you learned about floral essences and how these liquid petal potions contain the bioenergetic imprint of the flower’s chi or life force. They work with the emotions of the body as noted by cultures throughout the centuries and can enhance

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data for Good

Josh MorganApril 20, 2022 0

Empowering improved Medicaid policy using whole person analytics

Before I started with SAS, I worked at the San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health. Among many other projects, our analytics work included integrating data from multiple county departments and risk stratifying citizens in the greatest need of public services. This led to our 1115 Whole Person Care (WPC) waiver

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinApril 20, 2022 0

Use a heat map to visualize an ordinal response in longitudinal data

Recently, I showed how to use a heat map to visualize measurements over time for a set of patients in a longitudinal study. The visualization is sometimes called a lasagna plot because it presents an alternative to the usual spaghetti plot. A reader asked whether a similar visualization can be

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Programming Tips

Peter Styliadis

Peter StyliadisApril 20, 2022 0

CAS-Action! Create Columns in CAS Tables - Part 2

Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. This post builds upon CAS-Action! Create Columns in CAS Tables - Part 1 by showing how to add formats and modify the length of computed columns. I'll start by building off the following code where I

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Students & Educators

Hidden Insights - UBB FSEGA's inspiring vision for its role in Romania’s developing economy

Alina LuchianApril 19, 2022 0

UBB FSEGA's inspiring vision for its role in Romania’s developing economy

Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) is the largest and highest-ranked university in Romania. Its Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FSEGA) is the largest faculty at any university in Romania. It is also the highest-ranked institution in the country for management and business and top-ranked for economics. The faculty was founded as

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Banking | Education

Machine Learning

Conor HoganApril 19, 2022 0

How Microsoft empowers your ModelOps steps, part 2

Just getting started with this series? Make sure to read part 1: How ModelOps addresses your biggest Machine Learning challenges. SAS and Microsoft make it easier for companies to address the challenges of machine learning model deployment, monitoring and governance. Specifically, SAS and Microsoft have built integrations between SAS® Model

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Programming Tips

Martin MinceyApril 18, 2022 0

Getting started using SASPy® and the SAS® kernel for Jupyter Notebook

SASPy and the SAS kernel for Jupyter Notebook enable you to connect to SAS® 9.4 and the SAS® Viya® compute server from your client machine. You can then interact with SAS and SAS Viya via Python. If you are not familiar with SASPy and the SAS kernel, this article provides an introduction.

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinApril 18, 2022 0

The McNemar test in SAS

What is McNemar's test? How do you run the McNemar test in SAS? Why might other statistical software report a value for McNemar's test that is different from the SAS value? SAS supports an exact version of the McNemar test, but when should you use it? This article answers these

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Data Visualization

Diana MarisApril 15, 2022 0

Successful citizen data scientists need to know these three trends

Data visualization is a critical way for anyone to turn endless rows of data into easy-to-understand results through dynamic and understandable visuals. Whether your favorite visualization is a pie chart, a geographic map or relies on natural language, showing the insights that empower you to make more informed decisions is a better way to do data-driven business. Analyst firms say that SAS has market-leading data visualization. This helps users across the globe find insights in their data using new and exciting trends in data visualization.

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Advanced Analytics

World Creativity and Innovation Week

Udo SglavoApril 15, 2022 0

World Creativity and Innovation Week 2022: The Return - Part 1

A note from Udo Sglavo: At SAS, what we deliver to our customers is a product of creative minds thinking differently, challenging the norm, taking risks, and learning from trial and error (The greatest teacher, failure is). For the return of World Creativity & Innovation Week, we want to share

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Olivia OjedaApril 14, 2022 0

The potential of innovation: 6 stories celebrating creativity

It’s important to recognize the power that an idea can have. When looking back at the most amazing discoveries and inventions in the world, we must remember that ideas and dreams are what started them all. At SAS, we believe in dreaming big and bold. When we do this, creativity thrives.

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Programming Tips

Peter Styliadis

Peter StyliadisApril 13, 2022 0

CAS-Action! Create Columns in CAS Tables - Part 1

Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. I've broken the series into logical, consumable parts. If you'd like to start by learning a little more about what CAS Actions are, please see CAS Actions and Action Sets - a brief intro. Or if you'd

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Analytics

Riad GydienApril 13, 2022 0

Digital transformation opportunities in Africa 

Jim Goodnight, SAS founder and CEO, said in 2016, "Digital disruption is now a fact of life, and every organisation must have a plan to deal with it." And yet his observations could not be more apt today. Furthermore, the impacts of the global pandemic have accelerated digital disruption. I see

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Work & Life at SAS

Jen Sohl-Marion, MPH, RDN, LDN

Jen Sohl-Marion, MPH, RDN, LDNApril 13, 2022 0

Unscrambling egg facts

Which came first — popularizing eggs as great breakfast choice or blaming eggs for high cholesterol levels? For a food created by nature, eggs sure have been put through the wringer! Let’s dive into the facts and latest research related to the great egg debate.

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Analytics

Rick WicklinApril 13, 2022 0

Pascal matrices and inverses

Some matrices are so special that they have names. The identity matrix is the most famous, but many are named after a researcher who studied them such as the Hadamard, Hilbert, Sylvester, Toeplitz, and Vandermonde matrices. This article is about the Pascal matrix, which is formed by using elements from

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Analytics

Artur Szymanski

Artur SzymanskiApril 12, 2022 0

Analytics is driving the digital transformation of telecom

The concept of a "data-driven company" is widely promoted and discussed today. Are executives looking to invest in analytics and see an added value? Do many decision makers first analyze whether this investment simply pays off? This article is the first in a series on the practical application of analytics

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Programming Tips

Peter Styliadis

Peter StyliadisApril 11, 2022 0

CAS-Action! Filtering Rows in CAS Tables

Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. I've broken the series into logical, consumable parts. If you'd like to start by learning a little more about what CAS Actions are, please see CAS Actions and Action Sets - a brief intro. Or if you'd

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Analytics

Tim FairchildApril 11, 2022 0

Kicking carbon with analytics – 3 industry examples

See how our customers are using analytics to cut carbon emissions while achieving other business goals.

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Work & Life at SAS

Alyssa GrubeApril 11, 2022 0

Cindy's big idea: how upcycling could help ease the affordable housing crisis

When most of us see an abandoned mobile home, we see just that: an abandoned mobile home. But when Cindy Turner, Sr. Communications Specialist, sees an abandoned mobile home, she sees something different: opportunity. Cindy’s Big Idea  “I kept seeing more and more about the lack of affordable housing in

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinApril 11, 2022 0

New methods for solving differential equations in SAS

Many discussions and articles about SAS Viya emphasize its ability to handle Big Data, perform parallel processing, and integrate open-source languages. These are important issues for some SAS customers. But for customers who program in SAS and do not have Big Data, SAS Viya is attractive because it is the

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Advanced Analytics

Which countries are leading in hyperautomation?

David ShannonApril 8, 2022 0

Which countries are leading the way in the hyperautomation revolution?

It’s only been three years since Gartner coined the term “hyperautomation.” But a lot has changed since then, both in global events and technological developments. While automation has a long history, it’s evolved rapidly in the digital age. Businesses in every sector – including warehousing, health care, banking, agriculture, insurance,

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Management

Josh MorganApril 6, 2022 0

LA County's Whole Person Care analytics program offers crucial flexibility

When Los Angeles County invested in Whole Person Care (WPC) it could not have known just how important the system’s flexibility would be. Anyone who has had an interface with health care delivery, policy, oversight and management know things change quickly. As data becomes a priority, expectations of the use

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Government | Health Care

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Nihan YamiApril 6, 2022 0

Navigating to CX excellence

Why are some companies just so much better at customer experience? Last week’s #SASchat explored the defining characteristics of CX champions. As a member of the Global Practice Customer Intelligence team, I found this to be a very interesting discussion, and I certainly learned a lot. Here are my key

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