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Analytics | Data for Good | Students & Educators

Jen SabourinDecember 15, 2020 0

Evaluating media claims: Just because it's 'based on data' doesn't make it true

Editor's note: This blog post is part of a series of posts, originally published here by our partner News Literacy Project, exploring the role of data in understanding our world. Every day people use data to better understand the world. This helps them make decisions and measure impacts. But how do we take raw

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Education

Analytics

Pete BerrymanDecember 10, 2020 1

Competing in the big leagues with or without big money

In recent years, we have seen some astronomical contracts given to professional athletes. Major League Baseball (MLB) has certainly had its share. One of its first notable “megadeals” was when Alex Rodriguez, the Seattle Mariners’ power-hitting shortstop, left the team to join the Texas Rangers in 2001. The Rangers committed

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics

Leo SadovyDecember 8, 2020 0

Fools rush in … trends and predictions for 2021

COVID-19 has upset nearly every prediction and business plan for 2020 across the planet. Making predictions for 2021 may seem like a fool’s errand at this point, but many trends and consequences are already obvious and emerging from the global pandemic. The last global pandemic of this magnitude, the Spanish

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Alison BolenDecember 2, 2020 3

8 trends to watch for analytics in 2021

We've turned some of our most notable predictions for next year into a slide show. Click the orange "next" button to see these 2021 predictions from SAS. Who’s brave enough to make predictions for next year after the unpredictable year we just had? We are. After all, the disruptive

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Analytics | Data for Good | Students & Educators

Jen SabourinDecember 1, 2020 0

Is data cited in the news accurate? It depends on how it was collected.

Editor's note: This blog post is part of a series of posts, originally published here by our partner News Literacy Project, exploring the role of data in understanding our world. As discussed in previous posts, statistics and visual representations of data can be misleading. But what happens when the data itself is misleading? And if data is

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Education

Analytics

Frank SilvaNovember 24, 2020 4

Why teams should draft more offensive linemen

In football, five out of the 11 players on offense are on the field to accomplish one goal: keep the defenders as far away from the ball as possible. Sometimes it’s more than five. Teams will bring extra linemen on short-play packages. Tight ends and full backs might check in

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Analytics | Data for Good

Penny St. Clair-HolmesNovember 23, 2020 0

3 compelling reasons nonprofits are relying on analytics during the pandemic

It’s no surprise that nonprofit organizations providing health-related services are overconsumed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but what about other types of nonprofits? According to CNM President and CEO, Tina Weinfurther, the pandemic has affected nonprofits in different ways. Some are running on fumes, while others have doubled in size and

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Analytics | Data for Good | Machine Learning

Alison BolenNovember 20, 2020 3

It's personal: SAS data scientists explore racial disparities in NYC housing data

Most New Yorkers like to fantasize about owning and living in a classic New York City brownstone, complete with high ceilings, large windows and a front stoop. You can picture yourself sitting there alongside the iron railing with a cup of coffee while you watch the city wake up and

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Analytics

Lindsay MarshallNovember 19, 2020 1

How we’re reimagining data access on the cloud

You look to the cloud for several reasons – to meet your cloud-first strategy, for scalability or to adapt quickly to changing business demands. Maybe all three. Perhaps you need offerings to be available in various regions, or to reduce application response time and improve latency problems. Perhaps regulatory and compliance constraints are limiting (or mandating) the physical locations where your data can be stored and transmitted. This is why having a global data footprint is

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence | Risk Management