Teaching children AI skills for future jobs
Estimations suggests that 65% of children entering primary school now will be doing jobs that do not yet exist.
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What statistic should you use to display error bars for a mean?
In a previous article, I mentioned that the VLINE statement in PROC SGPLOT is an easy way to graph the mean response at a set of discrete time points. I mentioned that you can choose three options for the length of the "error bars": the standard deviation of the data,
To Monitor or Not To Monitor: Social Media and Youth
This is a popular topic and certainly something that most parents have to grapple with eventually. Often times I hear the discussion framed as “to monitor or not to monitor” and I want to encourage you to think about your child’s safety online in much broader ways. Monitoring is one
Computer vision: Past, present and future
Thanks to recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning, image recognition has become a reality.
Intern turned CEO Award Winner - Keisha's Career Story
This is a part of a series of posts where we interview employees around the company to explore career journeys at SAS. We're excited to show you what career development, growth, and opportunity looks like within our company. You can read all the posts here. Keisha Simpson's 17-year journey with
Hackathon challenge: Fighting fire with data
In Greece we conduct a SAS Hackathon. This will focus on wildfires - come and join!
Graph the mean response versus time in SAS
It is always great to read an old paper or blog post and think, "This task is so much easier in SAS 9.4!" I had that thought recently when I stumbled on a 2007 paper by Wei Cheng titled "Graphical Representation of Mean Measurement over Time." A substantial portion of
Guest blogger: Len Tashman previews fall 2019 issue of Foresight
Foresight Editor-in-Chief Len Tashman's Preview of the Fall 2019 Issue This 55th issue of Foresight opens with an article from Phillip Yelland, Zeynep Erkin Baz, and David Serafini of the Data Science/AI team at Target: Forecasting at Scale: The Architecture of a Modern Retail Forecasting System. The challenge of scale
When are we Legally Separated?
Many people are often confused on how to file for separation in North Carolina. Every state has different laws related to separation. This article is intended to make the process of legal separation easier to understand for NC residents. A couple becomes legally separated on the date that a husband and wife move into separate residences
Pictures, words and the coming AI storytelling opportunity
At the #AISummit early this summer, I was interested to see that one of the most popular demos on the SAS stand was of object detection. A camera was detecting the nature of an object waved in front of it and tracking it moving through the livestream. This was a
Common ground for future fraud detection techniques
Fraud detection is a wide field. Every organisation experiences the implementation differently.
When did household air conditioning become ubiquitous in the US?
We've had record high 90+ degree temperatures here in the southeast US this past week (September / October), and it has made me appreciate having an air conditioner. Indeed, air conditioners were pretty much invented here in North Carolina (see Eric Cramer). They are used in pretty much every building
Why Talk of the Geeks is popular with data science customers
Nowadays, geeks are increasingly cool, and we’re all proud to let our inner geek out in public. This wasn't always so ...
Compute the geometric mean, geometric standard deviation, and geometric CV in SAS
I frequently see questions on SAS discussion forums about how to compute the geometric mean and related quantities in SAS. Unfortunately, the answers to these questions are sometimes confusing or even wrong. In addition, some published papers and web sites that claim to show how to calculate the geometric mean
Harmony Within
We’re all familiar with Plato and his quotes so I’d like to share one – For the part can never be well unless the whole is well. The body, mind and spirit are intertwined like a rope. They all work together to provide strength and flexibility. In this case… optimal
Why data management protocols are key to implementing legislative actions
Surprise! The data team does more than you think to implement certain legislative actions.
Parenting Your College-Bound High School Senior (& Parents of HS Juniors Take Note)
I get it. You are between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, you want to allow space to let your emerging adult take the reins and handle the college application process. On the other hand, you quake in your boots thinking about the [remote] possibility that your high
Customer experience matters
Did you know the first SAS® Users Group event took place before SAS was incorporated as a company? In 1976, hundreds of early SAS users gathered in sunny Kissimmee, FL to share tips and offer feedback before SAS was even officially a company. Our users have continued to influence the
Happy Customer Experience Day!
Customer Experience Day (aka #CXDay2019) is one of our favorite days of the year—when we can reflect on customer interactions, questions and feedback from the past year—and look to the year ahead for ways to enhance our customers’ experience, like expanding our support options and helping drive improvements to our website and self-service offerings.
10 ways to sharpen your approach to payment fraud analytics
New payment methods will deliver huge improvements in speed of transaction, but also provide challenges.
Become Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable: Andrea Horn's Career Story
You may have heard the saying that to achieve success, it’s necessary to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. Stepping outside your comfort zone can be challenging, but our own Andrea Horn, Manager of Supplier Diversity, takes that saying to heart when it comes to growing her career! I sat down
5 steps to unlock business value from industrial IoT
Industrial leaders need an #IoT #analytics platform and a strategy that generates intelligence in lockstep with business needs.
What is a geometric mean?
There are several different kinds of means. They all try to find an average value from among a set of numbers. Although the most popular mean is the arithmetic mean, the geometric mean can be useful for problems in statistics, finance, and biology. A common application of the geometric mean
Machine learning with SASPy: Exploring and preparing your data (part 2)
This article continues a series that began with Machine learning with SASPy: Exploring and preparing your data (part 1). Part 1 showed you how to explore data using SASPy with Python. Here, in part 2, you will learn how to begin to prepare your data to use it within a
Data and Analytics Innovation using SAS & Spark - part 2
In part 1 of this post, we looked at setting up Spark jobs from Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) to load and save data to and from Hadoop. Now we are moving on to the next step in the analytic cycle, scoring data in Hadoop and executing SAS code as a
How do you achieve innovation at scale in a traditional company?
Interview with Line Lyst about how to ensure innovation at Ramboll while taking care of business as usual.
Graphing the record unemployment in California and New York
Lately we've been hearing a lot about "record low unemployment" in the news. Being a data guy, I wanted to see it for myself. Follow along as I create some custom unemployment graphs from the official data for California and New York (two of our most populous states). Or, if
A data fairy tale: Which speakers are the best received at conferences?
Importing about 4,400 messages worth of data into SAS Visual Text Analytics to exploring it and create an information extraction model.
Don't Go Topless: Root Vegetables
Most people buy carrots, beets, turnips and radishes to eat the roots of these vegetables, but they often come with the tops still attached. Loaded with B vitamins, vitamin K, potassium and fiber, it is a shame to throw the greens in the trash. So, what should you do with
Solve many optimization problems
One of the strengths of the SAS/IML language is its flexibility. Recently, a SAS programmer asked how to generalize a program in a previous article. The original program solved one optimization problem. The reader said that she wants to solve this type of problem 300 times, each time using a
