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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![What’s it take to be a data scientist?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/03/adpilz.jpg)
In February of this year, the Washington Business Journal reported the US Government appointed its first Chief Data Scientist, DJ Patil. With this, I think it’s now safe to say that Data Science is officially sanctioned as new mode in organizations. Those that can apply the necessary finesse along with
![Oilfield contextual analytics: Do you want to play a game?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/10/148984553-430x336.jpg)
In the Cold War techno-thriller WarGames, a marine monitoring a nuclear missile silo deep under the Nevada desert sees a red warning light blink on his console. “Just flick it with your finger,” his colleague tells him. He does, and the bulb goes out. Problem solved. But what will their
![Event stream processing: a life raft in the data deluge](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/03/waterfall_event_stream_processing.jpg)
Do you ever have stress dreams? You know, where you’re taking an exam for which you haven’t studied, or you’re forced to wait tables in a sea of angry restaurant customers? For many of us, the stress nightmare of the modern era involves trying to make sense of a never-ending
![Do I know you? Personalization without a guest profile.](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-1-702x336.png)
In a noisy distribution environment, hotels are in significant danger of becoming commoditized. Differentiating themselves not only from the competition, but from the third party distributors, will be crucial to maintaining a competitive edge, or even just maintaining profitability. In an effort to connect better with guests, most hotel companies
![Six analytics lessons from the automotive roundtable Analytics in Automotive](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/03/Automotive_norm-324x336.jpg)
Increasingly, automotive executives want to talk about the "Art of the Possible" in analytics. So we took the opportunity to invite leaders around the industry to an Automotive Analytics Executive Roundtable to share their stories and spark new ideas. A myriad of diverse speakers covered a variety of topics on big data/Hadoop, the
![Big Variety: The real value in Big Data](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/03/Fossils-592x336.png)
Forget about Big Volume, for my money the real value in Big Data comes from its variety. Why? Because just as there is “Value in the Network” when it comes to your business ecosystem, your data can be "networked" for value in much the same way. Before we dive into the business implications