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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Planning for the KDD data mining event](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Several of us at SAS are gearing up for the 16th annual ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. If you are not familiar with this, it is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research
![Hands-on predictive analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Plans are underway for a day of getting dirty with data! My SAS colleagues, Tapan Patel and Wayne Thompson, along with workshop host Dean Abbott, President of Abbott Analytics, are hosting a Hands-On Predictive Analytics Workshop on October 18th. This session is one of several workshops that kick off the
![Bringing the future to the present](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
~ Contributed by Jens Olivarius ~ Wednesday at The Premier Business Leadership Series in Berlin, Futurist Thornton May challenged a group of international business executives with this question: Has the way people think about analytics changed over time? The response was a resounding yes, but for several different reasons. Yes,
![Smarter Government](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/RiskMgt-1-702x336.png)
Earlier this week UK chancellor George Osborne announced his first budget as “tough but fair”. His action on debt echoed austerity measures being taken across other parts of the world. As I write this blog, President Obama and the G20 are assembling in Toronto. Opinions are mixed with Europe pushing
![Tom Davenport’s masterclass for executives](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
On Wednesday the 23rd June, Tom Davenport, best-selling co-author of Competing on Analytics and Analytics at Work and President's Distinguished Professor at Babson College, led a masterclass of 20 business leaders in examining how organisations go from being analytically impaired to analytical competitors. In Tom’s view, most companies have massive
![Forecasting 101](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Next up in the SAS Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series is Forecasting 101! This Webinar is appropriate for anyone involved in the creation, review or utilization of forecasts: demand planners and forecast analysts who generate forecasts; managers in sales, marketing, finance and operations; and executives who oversee the forecasting and