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Find out how analytics, from data mining to cognitive computing, is changing the way we do business

Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Management

Leo SadovySeptember 9, 2014 2

Capital investment in production capability is the weakest link in the business value chain. It always has been and likely always will be. It’s the driving force behind the tendency towards cartels, collusion and monopolies. While it can make the first entrant into a brand new market, in the long

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Manufacturing

Analytics | Data Management

Anne BelderSeptember 3, 2014 0

Data as the most critical asset

Writing my previous post about digital banks got me thinking about the widespread use of analytics. In his book Digital Bank, Chris Skinner states that data should be seen as the most critical asset for digital banks. Actually, this holds true for almost every company nowadays. If you don’t have data of

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Analytics

Prince William at the Controls of a Search and Rescue Seaking Helicopter

Beverly BrownAugust 21, 2014 0

Prince William and other emergency workers can benefit from analytics

Did you hear that Prince William is getting a new job? Next year, he’ll fly emergency helicopters for the East Anglian Air Ambulance. The prince, who’ll donate his salary to charity, called his new gig “one of the finest forms of public service.” The Duke of Cambridge won’t get any

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Health Care

Analytics

Alison BolenAugust 20, 2014 0

Discuss: hotel reviews, statistical wisdom and confirmation bias

If you read SAS blogs but never click through to the comment sections, you're missing some great information. Need proof? Check out some of these comments from the last few weeks. And then leave one of your own. Kelly McGuire has been studying the effects of negative hotel reviews online.

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Analytics

Leo SadovyAugust 12, 2014 0

Impending Crisis: Analytics for the top-line

I’m sitting here staring at a book on my shelf entitled, “Impending Crisis”. Even knowing the copyright date, 2003, it could still be about any one of several possible crises: healthcare, financial, energy, education, environment. But no, in this case the impending crisis in question is provided by the subtitle: “Too many jobs,

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Manufacturing

Analytics

David PopeAugust 4, 2014 0

Analytics is an enhanced oil recovery process

You may have heard the phase that big data is the new oil. Well (pun intended), if that is the case, then analytics should be thought of as the fracking technique used on data to improve the value you get from this new oil. Fracking is actually just one

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Fritz LehmanAugust 1, 2014 0

Helping the academic community build an analytics army

For those of you who are classic rock fans, you may remember Alice Cooper’s title track “School’s Out for Summer” on the album “School’s Out.” That song captures students’ excitement of a taking a hiatus from the classroom. But for professors, summer is a time to continue their own education

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Education

Analytics

David PopeJuly 23, 2014 2

Why standard ETL tools are not designed to support analytics

IT folks love SQL (Standard Query Language). Once you know how to program in SQL, you can work with almost any database because it is a standard. However, SQL is NOT a standard for doing analytics. The SAS programming language pre-dates SQL and even though SAS does SQL, SQL does not

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Analytics

Carl FarrellJuly 21, 2014 0

Energized about energy

I’ve been told I have rocks for brains before, but right now I have rocks on the brain – the kind that are millions of years old and contain precious stores of oil and gas. One reason I have petroleum on my mind is that I’ve just returned from Brazil, where

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