Do you know what your customers are saying about you?
A major UK insurance company used text analytics to categorise complaints.
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Analytics helping veterans make the transition to civilian life
US military veterans are mission-focused, team-oriented and natural leaders that benefit any organization that hires them. Many of today's veterans organizations use data and analytics to help transition military members and their spouses find rewarding civilian careers. SAS supports those efforts and we're also proud to offer many programs to
Analyze tweets about global warming using Fact Autogeneration
Analyzing tweets is challenging because of their succinctness (max 280 characters). However, that task is facilitated by the powerful features of SAS Visual Text Analytics (VTA), which includes embedded machine learning algorithms.
Will vinyl records outsell CDs in 2019?
I recently saw in several social media posts that sales of vinyl records are forecast to be higher than sales of CDs this year (2019) for the first time since 1986. Two questions came to mind - 1) Is this true? and 2) Is this a big deal? Let's analyze
Why do analytics in a place without electricity?
It’s always worth trying to improve our world and if it can be done thanks to analytics - I can’t imagine a better use case.
Round to even
In grade school, students learn how to round numbers to the nearest integer. In later years, students learn variations, such as rounding up and rounding down by using the greatest integer function and least integer function, respectively. My sister, who is an engineer, learned a rounding method that rounds half-integers
Does plotting data give you the jitters?
With all this sitting at a desk writing code, I have to do something to keep in shape. And for me, that something is paddling boats ... as fast as I can - and occasionally trying to race them. This past weekend I entered the race at Hunting Island, SC.
Changing the game in risk management
What precisely, then, is needed in risk management? Users want a user-friendly interface, so that they can find what they need.
Everything But the Kitchen Sink Feature Generation
Are you looking for a Data Science easy button? The dataSciencePilot action set comes pretty close.
The Gift of Reading
“Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world." — Malala Yousafzei Growing up with dyslexia was a challenge but what I most clearly remember are the successes. I attribute much of this to my dad’s dedication to my education and reading skills.
Making your SAS code more readable
Learn about best-selling SAS author Ron Cody's programming standards.
The architect’s role in operationalizing analytics
Innovation comes in all shapes and sizes. Business value though, lies in translating ideas into production.
What are biplots?
Principal component analysis (PCA) is an important tool for understanding relationships in continuous multivariate data. When the first two principal components (PCs) explain a significant portion of the variance in the data, you can visualize the data by projecting the observations onto the span of the first two PCs. In
De-stressing the Family
If you know me, you know I’m not a shopper. Shopping stresses me out. I wish I had a uniform to put on for work so that I didn’t have to think about it, because life is stressful enough without adding stress. What I need to do is eliminate the
A healthy intelligence mix for the public sector: Artificial and natural
The public sector is finally changing. Artificial intelligence is gradually finding its way into its administrative structures.
From Service to Software: Dan Schaub’s Career at SAS
At SAS, we recognize and appreciate the valuable skills and experience that veterans, active military and military families bring to our workforce. We honor the service of military families, and actively support our employees in their transition from the military to the civilian corporate work environment. Our own Dan Schaub
How to make the most of arrays with SAS® software and streamline your programming
Grace Whiteis of SAS Technical Support shows you how to capitalize on arrays using SAS software -- and streamline your code, whether it involves arrays or not.
We’ve all gone to cloud -- but what about my SAS data(base)?
Think differently about using storage in the cloud with your SAS Grid jobs, and learn about SAS Cloud Data Exchange for security/caching strategies
Accessing Databases in the Cloud – SAS Data Connectors and Microsoft Azure
Editor’s note: This is the third article in a series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. This article covers the SAS offerings available to connect to and interact with the various database options available in Microsoft Azure. Access
How using analytics and AI to detect payment fraud netted an immediate $16 million ROI
According to the Price Waterhouse Cooper 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey, the reported rate of economic crime is on the rise, up to 49% in 2018. That makes the use case I want to share particularly relevant, no matter what industry or sector you're in. This use case
Our SAS Culture Code: Values
Assessing a company from the outside can be tricky business – but it shouldn’t be. That’s why we’re pulling back the curtain on the #saslife. From our values to our vision and (almost) everything in between, we’re giving a transparent look at what it’s really like to work here. Our values aren’t
How to interpret graphs in a principal component analysis
Understanding multivariate statistics requires mastery of high-dimensional geometry and concepts in linear algebra such as matrix factorizations, basis vectors, and linear subspaces. Graphs can help to summarize what a multivariate analysis is telling us about the data. This article looks at four graphs that are often part of a principal
Why innovation may fail in retail
#Amazon forced retailers to find new ways to attract their customers. How can artificial intelligence help #retailers to adress their group?
Cloud security: Questions you need to ask when choosing a cloud provider
When I started working in data and analytics 30 years ago, information security wasn’t high on the agenda for organizations. That's changed with the rise of the Internet, and now that cloud is becoming more and more prevalent in organizations, information security is no longer just the domain of specialists
Manifesting a 'Crazy Good' county ranking map
I was recently reading David Mintz's excellent SESUG 2018 conference paper on Five Crazy Good Visualizations and How to Plot Them, and saw a map that caught my eye. David showed how to create a similar map, but with completely different data - I decided to try creating a map
Append tables in SAS® Viya® with REST APIs – a treat, no tricks
While growing up in the 80's, I watched The Golden Girls on TV with my Grandma Betty. Now, when my sister visits, we binge watch reruns on TV Land. I was excited when I saw for this Halloween, you could buy Golden Girls costumes! Too bad they sold out right
Digitalisation in banking: Uncertainty and opportunity
I have a clear view on the potential of AI: the true value of AI lies in helping banks to know and understand their customers.
From contactless to bankless: Can your bank survive the money revolution?
It’s imperative that banks embrace technology - driven changes, break down barriers to change and disrupt themselves digitally.
Compute the first or last day of a month or year
Every year at Halloween, I post an article that shows a SAS trick that is a real treat. This article shows how to use the INTNX function to find dates that are related to a specified date. The INTNX function is a sweet treat, indeed. I previously wrote an article
Our Storytellers: Cassio Pantaleoni
We’re proud of our unique company culture that spans across offices, divisions and geographies. It’s one of the reasons SAS was recently named among the top workplaces in the world by Fortune’s Great Place to Work! If you’re curious about what it is that makes SAS such a great place