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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | SAS Administrators

Keith RenisonJune 16, 2020 3

Are you ready for true cloud native computing? Meet SAS Viya 4

It’s official: NASA no longer builds spaceships. They’ve outsourced that task. According to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine, "We're going with commercial partners. NASA is not purchasing, owning and operating the hardware. We're buying the service." Why? Because NASA needs to focus on exploring space, not building the transportation to get

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Analytics | SAS Events

Jenn ChaseJune 12, 2020 0

6 new ways to connect at virtual events

I’m going to be honest. When we decided back in March to pivot our largest event of the year from an in-person event to a virtual one, I wasn’t sure what we were getting ourselves into. I didn’t know how we could replace the in-person networking, the unlimited learning opportunities

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Charlie ChaseJune 11, 2020 0

Rapid demand response forecasting helps retailers adapt during COVID-19

Rapid demand response forecasting techniques are forecasting processes that can incorporate key information quickly enough to act upon in real time by agile supply chains. Retailers and consumer goods suppliers are urgently trying to determine how changes in consumer behavior will affect their regions, channels, categories, brands and products during

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Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics

Alyssa FarrellJune 10, 2020 0

More alike than different: Two health systems share their COVID-19 response

What do two health systems, 4000 miles apart (6600 kilometers) have in common in their COVID-19 response? Despite different policy responses to the pandemic, they are more alike than you might think. Brought together by SAS and the FutureNHS COVID-19 analytics huddle, these two health systems recently shared their experience

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Health Care

Analytics

Frank SilvaJune 8, 2020 5

Going beyond the box score: Text analysis in sports

Critics of sports analytics (and there are some entertaining ones) love to point out that analytics isn’t capable of capturing the things that don’t show up on a box score. A player who dives on the floor to save a loose ball, a quarterback strategically misleading a defender to free

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data for Good | Work & Life at SAS

Elliot InmanJune 1, 2020 0

Data for good: the home edition

“He spends a lot of time wandering around in circles in the backyard,” my wife said to someone on the telephone. That’s true. Our backyard is only about 1/8th of an acre and I have taken to wandering outside and walking around the fence line. Ostensibly, I am checking to

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Education | Health Care

Analytics | Data Management

John GottulaMay 28, 2020 1

From 9 cows to the future of agtech

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged agriculture and supply chains, but the overarching resilience of agriculture around the world speaks to the industry's efficiency, built-in redundancy and indispensability. In the US, flourishing interactions between government, industry and academic stakeholders underscore how ag represents unity and consilience. And there may be no better

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AgTech

Analytics

Gale AdcockMay 21, 2020 2

Channeling Nightingale in the time of COVID-19

This month we celebrated International Nurses Day at a time when nurses and other health care professionals have never been so needed. This important day also fell on what would have been Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Most people know Florence Nightingale as the famous nurse who saved hundreds of lives during the

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Health Care

Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization | Students & Educators