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Michael ThomasMarch 10, 2017 0

North Carolina's youth chess championship by the numbers

Once again, SAS is sponsoring the North Carolina Scholastic Chess Championship. The 43 year-old event is at the Raleigh Convention Center this weekend, March 11-12th. SAS sponsors this event because of the STEM education benefits of youth chess. Hundreds of players have been preparing and studying. A few even practiced

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Analytics

Peter SnellingMarch 9, 2017 0

Why deeper insights, not more cash, will transform Home Office outcomes

Unlike some other UK Government departments, the Home Office has done well out of the recent spending review. Overall police spending has been protected – following the debacle of the earlier calculation errors – to protect against emerging crime threats and to train more firearms officers. Counter-terrorism has received a

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Government

Analytics

Peter Pugh-JonesMarch 8, 2017 0

Is governance getting in the way of innovation?

Digitalisation is blasting the cobwebs out from enterprises and organisations of all kinds – freeing them to innovate and take advantage of the always-on economy. But it’s also helping new disruptive players to gain an unexpectedly strong foothold in many markets. One of the key advantages these new players have

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Analytics

Steven O'DonoghueMarch 7, 2017 0

Building a high-performing analytics team

To get a high-performing analytics team producing insights that matter, you need great people, powerful software and a culture of experimentation and innovation. Three simple ingredients, but getting there is far from easy. In this post, I’d like to get you thinking about how to organize for success by building

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Analytics

Caroline HermonMarch 6, 2017 0

How to make analytics modernization work in practice

We like to think of analytics as a logical discipline, where investment decisions are consistently rational and predictable. Not so. Customer organisations are driven by all the usual complex and sometimes contradictory forces. Business users want analytics to help them make good customer facing decisions as quickly as possible, while

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Steve BennettMarch 3, 2017 0

5 Tech initiatives for the Trump administration

The Obama administration made great strides in improving the government’s use of information technology over the past eight years, and now it's up to the Trump administration to expand upon it. Let’s look at five possible Trump administration initiatives that can take government’s use of information technology to the next

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Government

Analytics

Paul GittinsMarch 3, 2017 1

How to apply design thinking to your analytics architecture

There aren’t many things that keep me awake at night but let me share a recent example with you. I’ve been grappling with how to help a local SAS team respond to a customer’s request for a “generic enterprise analytics architecture.” As background, this customer organization had recently embarked on

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Analytics

Greg WillisMarch 1, 2017 0

Should data scientists buy into the DevOps philosophy?

DevOps is enjoying a lot of attention at the moment, mostly because of its promise to increase software quality at lower cost. DevOps is a hybrid term linking development and operations. It's a philosophy that focuses on improving efficiencies in how we build and deliver software, solutions and the supporting environments.

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Analytics

Mike F. SmithFebruary 28, 2017 0

2020 vision for utilities: What’s the prescription?

Do you remember the 90s? It seemed like every company and organization had some sort of strategic plan that had “2000” in its title. And they were all going to achieve and exceed these Year 2000 goals … if their systems didn’t crash at 12:00:01 on January 1, 2000! So

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics

Tim ClarkFebruary 27, 2017 0

Why quality is the answer to manufacturing challenges

Manufacturers are used to operating in challenging circumstances – whether financial, economic, political or competitive. And it's a good thing since the coming years seem likely to be as uncertain as those following the global economic crash. But manufacturing will have an excellent opportunity to thrive because, like many sectors,

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Manufacturing

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