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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Back to the Basics Part Two: What can hoteliers do with analytics?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-1-702x336.png)
with Natalie Osborn, Senior Industry Consultant, Hospitality and Gaming Practice, SAS This week, we continue our fall “back to the basics” refresher series on analytics for hoteliers. Last week, in part one, Natalie and I reviewed the analytic methods that can be utilized by hoteliers. This week we will explore
![Meet your SAS #StrataHadoop Team: Clark Bradley](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/09/Clark-Bradley-419x336.jpg)
Meet Clark Bradley: SAS technical architect by day and comedian by night. When he’s not demoing SAS Data Loader for Hadoop, he’s blogging about it on The Data Roundtable. Clark and a core SAS team of thought leaders, developers and executives will be in New York City on September 29 at Strata
![Towering Insights](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/09/Topics.jpg)
The benefits of big data often depend on taming unstructured data. However, in international contexts, customer comments, employee notes, external websites, and the social media labyrinth are not exclusively written in English, or any single language for that matter. The Tower of Babel lives and it is in your unstructured
![Five reasons oil and gas needs analytics more than ever](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/08/108350741-702x336.jpg)
Over my career, I've attended many events where the audience was blasted with the value of analytics -- and the pitch usually fell on deaf ears. The 2015 SAS Energy Analytics Forum (which doubled in size from last year) was vastly different. The attendees had more questions and more urgency to take
![A Shopaholic’s Guide to Analytics II.A](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-1-702x336.png)
I realized a little while ago that I may have more loyalty cards and memberships than the average person. (And that I more actively prove my loyalty than the average person). But as anybody who has ever signed up to a mailing list or for a store card knows, having
![Time for VirtualOil 2.0? VirtualOil Rolling 5-Year Portfolio Aug 15](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/08/VirtualOil-Aug2015-Rolling-e1440777926559.jpeg)
Since our last VirtualOil update in May, oil prices have continued to take a beating. As the chart of the rolling five-year portfolio shows, much of our strip of options is now out-of-the-money and the average value per barrel of that optionality has sunk below $7. No surprise then that