Have you been stuck at home, dreaming up the next big trip you'll take after this pandemic is over? How will you pick a really cool location to visit? Perhaps you can ask your friends for suggestions. My co-worker (and lunch buddy) John recommended the Grand Prismatic Spring. Here's a
May you be healthy, safe, and surrounded by those your love this holiday season! We're looking forward to seeing you in the new year. Until, check out the RFC's Video Library for Kasey's 12 Days of Fit-mas Workout, recordings of our live streamed classes, guided meditations, and crafts and more! Or,
Recently, Dana and I had the opportunity to spend an hour with our HCC staff talking about managing stress and coping with change. We were grateful for the time to support our SAS Healthcare Heroes. We pulled together such great content that I want everyone to have access to it,
Romania’s energy and utilities market is thriving. The country has a high level of energy independence, thanks to oil and gas reserves in the Black Sea, and there is also activity in the solar energy market. However, many utilities companies are struggling to make appealing offers to customers, and there
A good public transportation system is crucial to develop smart cities, particularly in great metropolitan areas. Network optimization algorithms can be applied to better understand urban mobility, particularly based on a multimodal public transportation network.
When you perform a linear regression, you can examine the R-square value, which is a goodness-of-fit statistic that indicates how well the response variable can be represented as a linear combination of the explanatory variables. But did you know that you can also go the other direction? Given a set
When a medical emergency strikes, can you be certain where your ventilators are? When lives are at stake, delays become deadly. Hospital administrators and clinicians are under enormous pressure to properly track vital equipment so they can easily find it. Yet ageing hospital systems aren’t always up to the task.
Tis the season for my annual, fun Christmas themed blog post! This is the seventh year and my tenth song. I hope you enjoy this 2020 holiday song (to the tune of Rockin' around the Christmas Tree). Hackin around the Decision Tree at the SAS party hackathon Data science algorithms
The Smart Cities movement continues to forge ahead and evolve, led by innovative municipalities of all sizes. One of the towns at the forefront is Cary, North Carolina, adjacent to the Research Triangle Park and home of the SAS world headquarters. Cary Chief Information Officer Nicole Raimundo and her team
Predictive models are a critical component for automated and augmented decision making. As this deployment pattern becomes more widely adopted, two competing priorities emerge. How can we deliver more models faster while being certain of accurate and consistent performance? The key to solving this dilemma is in the automated testing
A note from Udo Sglavo: This post offers an introduction to complex optimization problems and the sophisticated algorithms SAS provides to solve them. In previous posts of this series, we learned that data availability, combined with more and cheaper computing power, creates an essential opportunity for decision-makers. After looking at network analytics
It takes a lot of companies collaborating in a lot of new and different ways behind the scenes to make AI work seamlessly on the front lines. We see this all the time in our work on AI. Processing power is one of the most obvious examples – when clients
Find out the most popular SAS Users YouTube channel how to tutorials, and learn a thing or two!
If you have plotted data on a map, you have probably tried to estimate the geographical (or visual) 'center' of map areas, to place labels there. But have you ever given any thought to the "center of population"? This is one of the myriad of statistics the US Census Bureau
In this article, we summarize our SAS research paper on the application of reinforcement learning to monitor traffic control signals which was recently accepted to the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020), Vancouver, Canada. This annual conference is hosted by the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, a non-profit corporation that promotes the exchange of ideas in neural information processing systems across multiple disciplines.
The holidays are just around the corner! Avoid wasting hours walking around the mall or browsing endless online retailers trying to figure out what to get the people in your life that have everything. Instead, treat your loved ones to homemade gifts from your kitchen. These unique and thoughtful gifts
The infinite game-changer to monetize your analytics opportunities Does your factory still belong to the minor 11 percent saying that 5G is not on your radar? This means your factory is not planning to realize benefits from use cases like remote predictive maintenance, time-critical process optimization, automated visual quality inspection,
NOTE: this is a repost of a blog I wrote a few years ago. As I have been receiving frequent questions and requests for help on this topic recently, I thought it made sense to republish. Where to start: Knowing when a parent needs help, and what kind Many times
Editor's note: This blog post is part of a series of posts, originally published here by our partner News Literacy Project, exploring the role of data in understanding our world. Every day people use data to better understand the world. This helps them make decisions and measure impacts. But how do we take raw
Let’s flash back to a simpler year. I don’t want to date myself, so think circa 1990s. I remember sitting with my now husband watching Ken Burns’ documentary Baseball when I was first introduced to Doris Kearns Goodwin. She didn’t just know baseball – it was part of her DNA. She was smart, funny and a storyteller. I became a fan that day, and only came
The changes we have seen during 2020 have prompted a lot of soul-searching. Around the globe and across industry sectors, companies are looking at ways they can improve how they do business. My conversations with clients suggest manufacturing companies recognize we have reached a tipping point. Adopting analytics and using
Do you need to see how long patients have been treated for? Would you like to know if a patient’s dose has changed, or if the patient experienced any dose interruptions? If so, you can use a Napoleon plot, also known as a swimmer plot, in conjunction with your exposure
A segmented regression model is a piecewise regression model that has two or more sub-models, each defined on a separate domain for the explanatory variables. For simplicity, assume the model has one continuous explanatory variable, X. The simplest segmented regression model assumes that the response is modeled by one parametric
In recent years, we have seen some astronomical contracts given to professional athletes. Major League Baseball (MLB) has certainly had its share. One of its first notable “megadeals” was when Alex Rodriguez, the Seattle Mariners’ power-hitting shortstop, left the team to join the Texas Rangers in 2001. The Rangers committed
We seem to be in the height of webinar season, so please add one more to your calendar, brought to you by SAS, CT Global Solutions, and the International Institute of Forecasters: I'll be delivering a short introduction, covering the disappointing state of real life business forecasting in contrast to
Banks don’t like to publicise it, but there’s already a place on most high streets that offers everyday banking services: the Post Office.
This resource is designed primarily for beginner to intermediate data scientists or analysts who are interested in identifying and applying machine learning algorithms to address the problems of their interest. A typical question asked by a beginner, when facing a wide variety of machine learning algorithms, is “which algorithm should
My SAS is a brand-new customer experience page. This new location takes a variety of customer service places and puts them in one interface. The goal of My SAS is to ensure all SAS customers have the best possible experience available in the marketplace.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house; Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The children were nestled all snug in their beds; While visions of persimmons danced in their heads! Known as the forgotten winter fruit, persimmons hang from their trees like bright
One purpose of principal component analysis (PCA) is to reduce the number of important variables in a data analysis. Thus, PCA is known as a dimension-reduction algorithm. I have written about four simple rules for deciding how many principal components (PCs) to keep. There are other methods for deciding how
