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Marcia Elaine WalkerOctober 29, 2018 0

Screaming analytics. Let your safety data whisper.

GAHHHHHHHHH! My screams filled the office hallways on a Sunday afternoon. In agony, I hopped to the ice machine to find relief for my crushed toe. Moments before, while hanging my shiny new patent plaque on the wall, it dropped six feet and landed on my big toe joint. Since

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Manufacturing

Analytics

Heather HallettOctober 23, 2018 0

I am a recovering ICU nurse

I've been recovering for 15 years now, after a lengthy career caring for critically ill patients. Now, I’m part of a team at SAS that’s working to transform health care – and that's important to me because of something that happened when I was an ICU nurse. It changed my

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Government | Health Care

Analytics | Data for Good

Alison BolenOctober 17, 2018 0

3 wildfire predictions from a recent SAS hackathon

What can you learn about wildfires when you provide a room full of analysts with 7 years of US wildfire data and the tools they need to analyze it? A lot. At a recent data dive, we split 35 data scientists into 9 teams, provided multiple data sets containing information

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Analytics

Scott NalickOctober 15, 2018 0

The supply chain of things: IoT in supply chain

What if you could automatically detect supply chain anomalies as they happen, or even predict them in advance? You'd be able to take timely corrective action and help maximize revenue, margins, customer satisfaction and shareholder value. There's no question: Supply chain planning and execution is complex. From design and sourcing, to

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Manufacturing

Analytics

Mike F. SmithOctober 12, 2018 0

The digital utility era is here – and now it’s time for a platform

Note: Today’s utility industry is in upheaval. All of the assumptions the business has run on have been turned on their heads. This post is the first in a three-part series looking at how analytics are helping utilities navigate this challenging landscape and find new opportunities for improvements in operations,

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Greg HeidrickOctober 11, 2018 0

Retailers: is your customer experience strategy working?

Smart retailers know that omnichannel customer experience isn't just about marketing anymore. It’s about bridging all your digital and physical channels to recognize customers wherever they are, collecting data and understanding the retail customer’s purchasing journey. By taking customer data, product data, and supply chain data - and applying predictive and prescriptive

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Retail

Analytics

Georgia MarianiOctober 10, 2018 0

How two students used data science to analyze ‘real-world’ problems

We hear a lot about data science nowadays, but do you ever wonder how it’s being used to help solve real-world problems? In my first post of this blog series, we heard why two students chose to pursue a STEM field and what appealed to them about data science. Today, we'll hear

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Analytics

Georgia MarianiSeptember 24, 2018 0

Teaching and learning analytics – two professors’ perspectives

Why is teaching and learning analytics so important? Recently, I interviewed two professors to gain their perspective on teaching students the skills they’ll need to pursue a lucrative career in the digital age. Joni Shreve, PhD, Faculty, Louisiana State University, explains: “We teach students analytics because there’s a talent gap

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | SAS Events

Stephanie DiRicoSeptember 21, 2018 0

Don't just do digital. Be digital.

If you were to ask Tricia Wang, PhD, about real business growth, she would tell you that it lies outside the boundaries of the known. Not everything valuable is measurable, she would say. And big data is hiding new customers in the market from you. Wang is more than just

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Elliot InmanSeptember 11, 2018 0

Data visualization, the musical

The data I was analyzing was about “trust.” Maybe that’s what got me thinking about Stephen Sondheim, the Broadway composer and lyricist of musicals like Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods and the lyricist for West Side Story. Trust is a heavy emotional topic. Developmental psychologists

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Communications | Education | Government | Health Care

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