The Premier Business Leadership Series (PBLS) was in full swing on day one with the astute and provocative keynote address, "Prosperity at Risk," by the prolific Michael E. Porter, an internationally known competitive strategist and professor at the Harvard Business School. His tome On Competition is a resourceful compendium for the
The Analytics conference has just concluded and the unofficial theme of the final day was Big Data. It began with our very first talk, a keynote presentation delivered by Will Hakes, CEO and co-founder of Link Analytics. Will spent the first part of his talk outlining the current state of
Program update for 2013! The SAS Training Roadshow is back on tour. This year, we’re heading out to six rockin’ cities. We’d love to see you there. Cleveland - Portland - San Jose - Indianapolis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As I prepare for my stint on the SAS Programming "Roadshow," it occurs to
Books are anything but boring in Las Vegas. Just ask Stacey Hamilton and Lisanne Roskam, who’ve spent the past two days in the SAS bookstore at Analytics 2012. Despite their hectic pace, I managed to track down a few conference highlights from Stacey (a developmental editor for SAS Press—and a runner) this
If you’re a marketing professional it doesn’t get much better than Andy Pulkstenis’ talk at Analytics 2012. Do You Know or Do You Think You Know: Creating a Testing Culture at State Farm documented the value of implementing experimental design into your marketing efforts. During the talk, Pulkstenis outlined the
In my recent work for updates and changes to the SAS 9.4 OLAP Server documentation, I documented a new OLAP Server procedure that can be extremely useful to our customers. The function has been available for internal use but will become available to customers in SAS 9.4. The OLAPCONTENTS procedure
Here's a quick update from the Analytics 2012 conference. I've seen lots of interesting talks. Frank Travisano and Hongsen Zhou from Chubb presented some of their work incorporating association rules into predictive models. The approach was fresh, using the confidence statistics from a market basket analysis as inputs to a logistic regression
Analytics 2012 is in full swing! I had the opportunity to interview Analytics 2012 presenter Gene Pease from Capital Analytics about the importance of human capital analytics and the tools for measuring it. If you're in Las Vegas, be sure to check out his presentation tomorrow, Tuesday, October 9 at
According to David Liebskind of GE Capital, segmentation tells you “What to do” and predictive modeling tells you “Whom to Target.” In his featured presentation “Using Segmentation and Predictive Analytics to Combat Attrition,” the Top Four Must-do’s and Don’t-do’s when using segmentation, paraphrased below for your enjoyment, are: You must
For a service organization like SAS Education, there are few things more valuable than feedback from our users. Sunday, in advance of our 15th annual Analytics conference, we were fortunate enough to spend three hours meeting with some of SAS Education’s largest customers at the First Annual Analytics Customer Summit.
