The promise of high-performance analytics, as I understand it, is this: Regardless of how you store your data or how much of it there is, complex analytical procedures can still access that data, conduct a series of calculations on that data and provide answers quickly, accurately and using the full
Notwithstanding the need to differentiate their value proposition in today’s highly competitive world, companies are sometimes forced to plagiarize even when it comes to public events. For attendees, it is generally the same ole, same ole agenda and faces, staffers drained of passion and exhibitors looking out of place while searching for a
Tuesday's panel discussion on the global economic and business outlook, featuring panelists Bernard Yeung, Dean of NUS Business School; Johanna Chua, Managing Director, Chief Asia Pacific Economist and Head of Asia Pacific Economic and Market Analysis at Citigroup; Vikram Nehru, former Chief Economist for East Asia and the Pacific of the World
After a couple of solid days speaking to business leaders, listening to some of the world’s thought leaders and leading a panel discussion with the analytics leaders from DBS Bank, Allianz and Volvo Trucks, what have I learned about business analytics and what it takes to succeed? The first clue
World Statistics Conference, Dublin More than 2200 statisticians from over 120 countries have descended upon Dublin, Ireland for the 58th World Statistics Conference of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). SAS is the Premier Sponsor of this biennial event being held this week through Friday, August 26th. SAS is also exhibiting,
In this day and age, you hear a lot in the news about education. You hear about dropout rates, low graduation rates, technology use, 21st century learning, college and workforce readiness, etc. During my many years at SAS working with the education industry, I have heard and witnessed a lot.
At the first panel discussion of the Premier Business Leadership Series on Tuesday morning, host Mark Jeffries introduced attendees to a new feature - the Clikapad wireless voting keypad. During each panel presentation throughout the conference, audience participation will be facilitated with polls via the keypads. Jeffries started the first panel discussion with this
In the first part of this series, I wrote about how mobility of BI and collaboration combine to get the right information, in actionable sizes, to decision makers on the go. In this part, we look at what I consider to be both the big win and the big challenge
Mark Jeffries, a former Merrill Lynch stockbroker turned author and trusted advisor to corporate executives, opened the Premier Business Leadership Series this morning with a perspective on our first topic – really our focus for this day and a half conference. He reminded everyone that during this same conference in
Bar Charts are some of the most commonly used graphs to convey information to the reader. Bar Charts are used across all domains, including business, finance, banking, clinical and health and life sciences. Various kinds of Bar Chart can be created using the SAS Statistical Graphics (SG) procedures as shown below. The data
