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Analytics

Leo SadovyJanuary 13, 2015 0

“Let’s assume a normal distribution …” Ugh! That was your first mistake. Why do we make this assumption? It can’t be because we want to be able to mentally compute standard deviations, because we can’t and don’t it that way in practice. No, we assume a normal distribution to simplify

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Manufacturing

Analytics | Data Management

Stuart RoseJanuary 8, 2015 1

What keeps an insurance CEO awake at night?

I cannot speak from experience, but predominately an Insurance CEO has three primary objectives: Grow the business Reduce expenses Ensure compliance. Let’s individually consider each of these objectives in more detail. Grow the Business How does an insurance company grow from a $2bn to a $3bn organization? Essentially, insurance has

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Retail analytics Gilt retailer customer intelligence gift

Carl FarrellDecember 22, 2014 0

The best gift for retailers this season: analytics

It’s that time of year again, and I have retail on my mind. Not only because we’re reaching the peak of the holiday buying season, but because we at SAS are getting ready for one the biggest events on our calendar, the National Retail Federation tradeshow in January. As I’m

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Retail

Analytics | Data Visualization

Carmen GallagherDecember 16, 2014 0

Are you ready to graduate from spreadsheets to analytics?

Flexibility and nimbleness are terms synonymous with small and mid-sized businesses. They have the ability to react quickly to changing market conditions as they are made aware of them. Traditionally these businesses have lived in the world of spreadsheets - and why not? They are easy to use, very affordable

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Alan LipsonDecember 12, 2014 0

Making 'management by walking around' more productive

The idea of "management by walking around" has been around for a while. First brought to prominence in Tom Peters and Robert Waterman’s best-seller In Search of Excellence, the concept is that managers get out of their offices and meet employees in their work areas to get a sense of how

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Retail

Analytics

Caroline McCullenDecember 11, 2014 5

SAS coders descend on 30 schools for the Hour of Code

Last year during Computer Science Education Week, some in the corporate community participated in The Hour of Code. To those who visited classrooms, thank you! Telling students about the exciting careers in computer science not only inspires leaders of tomorrow, but it also leads to more graduates equipped to innovate

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Analytics

Fiona McNeillDecember 10, 2014 4

Don’t Second Guess – Depend on Prescriptive Analytics

I don’t know why I’m on this medical theme lately – maybe it’s because my parents are aging. They talk about bits falling off, take lots of naps and describe how body parts don’t work like they used to. They’ve gone to pre-packaged pills – dividing up their medications by

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Analytics

James EnochDecember 3, 2014 3

Top 20 Procs in SAS University Edition

SAS University Edition has been available for free download for six months – in that time we’ve seen 50,192,670 PROCs or DATA steps executed globally – that’s almost 4,000 hours duration! Now, we were founded on stats so we thought we’d bring you some of the key metrics we’ve discovered over

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Education

Analytics | Data Management

Suzanne ClaytonNovember 24, 2014 0

Be proactive. Be a trailblazer with data.

For many industries, big data analytics have opened numerous doors for more employees to be groundbreaking and to challenge the corporate status quo. Prior to big data technologies, risk taking behaviors were primarily reserved for provocative souls who stretched organizational boundaries to disrupt industries, such as airline revenue management. There were winners and losers

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Lloyd GobblerNovember 22, 2014 9

Thanksgiving data visualization from the White House turkey

Well, this is a kick to the giblets. I assumed when I was summoned to the White House it was in recognition of my tireless advocacy for turkey rights. I wasn’t expecting a press conference in the rose garden or anything, just a meet and greet with the prez and

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