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Georgia MarianiJanuary 7, 2014 2

Ask the Statistician: In what ways does statistics benefit your organization?

Last year, during the International Year of Statistics, I created a blog series called Ask the Statistician. Since we love celebrating statistics every day at SAS, we decided to continue the series through interviews at the Analytics 2013 conference. For this project, I ask statisticians from various industries about their use of statistics. Their answers

David PopeJanuary 2, 2014 1

Twas the night before big data

Twas the night before "big data," when all through the data center Not an IT supervisor was stirring, not even the help desk on-call. The servers where all humming along nicely in hopes Big data would soon be there. The business users were nestled all snug in their offices

Analytics

August 9, 2013 1

Big data and big fish a natural pair at Texas Parks and Wildlife

John Taylor likes computer data the way he likes big trout: here, there or anywhere. Which is perfectly natural, considering he’s the data analyst in the Inland Fisheries Department at Texas Parks and Wildlife. Taylor describes his unspoiled enthusiasm for big data and big fish in this sendup of Dr. Seuss that

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Shannon HeathMay 3, 2013 6

How SAS became Stark Industries for a day

As the world gears up for the premiere of Iron Man 3, SAS employees are gearing up to find out whether they will get their 15 minutes of fame on the big screen and how much of our beautiful Executive Briefing Center (EBC) is portrayed in the movie. Folks in the

Analytics

April 25, 2012 5

The value of high-performance analytics

Like Vince said a few days ago, you don’t have to be Goliath to see how the intersection of big data and high performance analytics creates competitive advantage. Let’s also be realistic though: compared to someone like Walmart, pretty much everyone’s David! While Telstra and the Commonwealth Bank may not be the largest companies by global measures, they’re still

Analytics

April 11, 2011 0

Getting to the point of return on analytics

Linking business analytics to economic value is a hard problem. Despite all the smarts that get poured into models, it's hard to tie them to financial measures such as profitability. And, because of that, it's hard to justify investment in analytics. Need headcount? Sorry, try again. Need tools? Sorry, can't

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April 8, 2011 0

Fueled by optimization and ideas

I'm in what's a very foggy Chicago at the moment, counting down the hours to when we'll be kicking off our SAS pre-conference workshop at INFORMS. I'm very fortunate to be here this year, because I've always been a big believer in using optimization to drive returns. The greatest thing

February 3, 2011 1

Sustainable banking - The social dimension

We live in a world of digital communications, where social media provides the global population with the opportunity to come together like never before. This has brought a whole new dimension to consumer interaction. It provides instant channels for information exchange, experience and opinion sharing. Social media and multichannel digital

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