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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

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Lee Ellen HarmerMay 20, 2020 0

Count and save the bees with analytics

SAS partners with Appalachian State University on the World Bee Count initiative to support bee health.

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AgTech

Analytics | SAS Events

Jenn ChaseMay 15, 2020 0

What can we learn about COVID-19 from an executive producer of Pandemic?

Dr. Ryan McGarry might have the most uncanny timing of any documentary producer in history. Just weeks before the novel coronavirus began to saturate headlines, the emergency medicine physician’s Netflix documentary series Pandemic hit the screens of millions of viewers. Six months ago, many of the subjects featured in the

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things

Jelena StankovicMay 14, 2020 0

Leading advancement in industry and society for Malaysia

This post is the second in our Young Data Scientists series, featuring the motivations, work and advice of the next generation of data scientists. Be sure to check back for future posts, or read the whole series by clicking on the image to the right. Kai Woon Goh is

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Analytics

Jeremy RacineMay 13, 2020 0

Can data sharing accelerate research in the fight against COVID-19?

As we continue the fight against COVID-19 and reflect on the pandemic response, it’s in our nature to look for opportunities to work together and help others. Indeed, we’ve seen numerous acts of heroism alongside tragic stories of loss. In the research community, we are inspired by efforts to find

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Government | Health Care

Analytics

Brittany BullardMay 4, 2020 0

Retail forecasting through a pandemic

[Jessica Curtis and Adam Hillman, both Forecasting Advisors at SAS, were co-authors of this post] The world has been dramatically impacted by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Many of us are juggling a completely new lifestyle that was forced upon us overnight. As consumers find their way to a new normal,

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Retail

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence