Work & Life at SAS

Ashley Bailey, MS, RDN, LDN, IFNCPAugust 23, 2021 0

Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week at SAS

"Protect breastfeeding: a shared responsibility" is this year's theme for World Breastfeeding Week. SAS has been a strong supporter of mothers who desire to breastfeed their babies by making offices adaptable to pumping/nursing and providing comfortable Mother-at-Work pump rooms across campus. The on-site Health Care Center has prioritized supporting breastfeeding mothers and infants for nearly

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Work & Life at SAS

Celeste CooperAugust 20, 2021 0

Being Stress Resilient While Breastfeeding

I’ve worked with expectant moms for a quarter century. I can spot a new mom-to-be from a mile away. There is a lot of wonderment with new mommies. They have lots of questions and are unsure if they are doing everything right, fear what they identify as shortcomings and put

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Work & Life at SAS

Amanda PackAugust 4, 2021 0

Celebrating World Breastfeeding Month: Breastfeeding and Exercise

Breastfeeding.  Exercise.  You don’t usually see these two words together, but motherhood is like that – a beautiful dance of balancing necessity with fun, effort with ease, joy and tears.  In honor of World Breastfeeding Awareness Month, we’re talking breastfeeding here on SAS Life.  Today’s topic: Breastfeeding and Exercise.  Can

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Analytics | SAS Events

Kara RobertsMay 19, 2021 0

SAS User Feedback Award winner helps drive innovation, shape SAS® Event Stream Processing software

SAS users help drive innovation, providing feedback on SAS products through various mediums, including customer advisory boards, communities, SASware Ballot® ideas, and SAS Global Forum. The SAS User Feedback Award is presented annually to a user whose recommendations and insights lead to significant improvements to SAS software. This year SAS

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Analytics | Data Management | Students & Educators

Katrina MillerApril 27, 2021 0

Statewide longitudinal data system helps feed children in need

Statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDS) have been around for many years, helping states understand students’ paths through the education system and beyond. The COVID-19 pandemic was an opportunity for one state’s SLDS to step up in new ways that helped feed children in need. With the US Department of Agriculture

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Education | Government

Analytics | Data for Good

Maggie LyonsOctober 16, 2020 0

5 ways companies and everyday heroes are helping feed the hungry

Two billion people worldwide experience food insecurity and 14% of food produced for humans to consume is wasted before it arrives at the wholesaler, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO celebrates World Food Day on October 16, 2020. This year’s event focuses

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AgTech | Government

Customer Intelligence | SAS Events

Shadi ShahinJune 16, 2020 0

SAS User Feedback Award winner helps drive innovation, shape SAS® 360 Engage software

SAS users help drive innovation, providing feedback on SAS products through various mediums, including customer advisory boards, communities, SASware ballot ideas and SAS Global Forum. The SAS User Feedback Award is presented annually to a user whose recommendations and insights lead to significant improvements to SAS software. This year SAS

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Programming Tips

Chris HemedingerApril 11, 2019 0

Read RSS feeds with SAS using XML or JSON

This blog post could be subtitled "To Catch a Thief" or maybe "Go ahead. Steal this blog. I dare you."* That's because I've used this technique several times to catch and report other web sites who lift the blog content from blogs.sas.com and present it as their own. Syndicating blog

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Work & Life at SAS

Kelly Gehle, MS, RDN, LDN, IFNCPMay 23, 2018 0

Top 5 Infant and Toddler Feeding Mistakes

When it comes to feeding our children many of us feel lost. Maybe you’re just starting to introduce solids to your baby or maybe you are having all out wars with your 5 year old at dinner time.  If meal times stress you out, you might be making some of

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Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonApril 26, 2017 0

Feeding the hungry, after a flood

In the aftermath of a natural disaster, most people want to help by donating supplies, money, etc. And then it becomes a matter of logistics - getting all those donations to the people who need them. We recently had several days of rain and flooding in North Carolina, and I

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Internet of Things

Brad HathawayJuly 14, 2016 0

Do RFID deployments feed into your bigger IoT picture?

Ever wondered about the relationship between radio-frequency identification (RFID) and the Internet of Things (IoT)? Radio-Frequency Identification is one of the many types of sensors that are bringing the IoT to life. They’re fully compatible with the Internet of Things at the most basic level. RFID technology provides a way of locating a

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Data Visualization

Brent SchmidtJune 18, 2015 0

Father’s Day data visualization reveals…do not feed your brother cat food!

As a proud father of three young children, Father’s Day is very special to me. I pulled together some data about the holiday for a fun blog post, but with three kids it’s difficult to find time to write. Evenings end with me and my wife collapsed on the couch

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Data Management

Joyce Norris-MontanariMay 20, 2015 0

Data management for analysis – Feeding the analytical monster more than once

(Otherwise known as Truncate – Load – Analyze – Repeat!) After you’ve prepared data for analysis and then analyzed it, how do you complete this process again?  And again? And again? Most analytical applications are created to truncate the prior data, load new data for analysis, analyze it and repeat

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonApril 13, 2015 0

Applying the KISS principle to maps: An analysis of breastfeeding prevalence

How simple is too simple, when it comes to analyzing data on a map? The KISS principle can be applied to many things, including graphs and maps. What is the KISS principle, you might ask? Well, it's not the rock band that my friend Patricia (pictured below) has been known

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Work & Life at SAS

Ashley Bailey, MS, RDN, LDN, IFNCPNovember 12, 2014 0

Feed Your Skin

When we think of acne, we typically think of teenagers and raging hormones. However, there has been an upsurge of adult acne over the last 50 years. Why, you ask? Well, one probable cause is changes to our food supply and dietary habits. Nutritional voids and dietary excess can have

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SAS Events

Lane WhatleyApril 29, 2013 0

User Feedback winner helped improve SAS High-Performance Analytics

It was a packed house at the Moscone West Center in San Francisco last night as more than 4,000 SAS users and employees from around the world gathered together to officially kick off SAS® Global Forum. Following the live software demos from customers and SAS development teams, Technical Support Vice

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SAS Events

Waynette TubbsMay 16, 2012 0

SAS User Feedback Award Winner: Pete Lund

Annette Harris spends several minutes during this video extolling many of the high-performance virtues of Pete Lund, Information Systems Manager, Looking Glass Analytics. One thing she didn't mention (it was mentioned to me later) is that Pete is a long-time member of SAS-L. Do you know how many other SAS

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Anne-Lindsay BeallApril 12, 2010 0

Meet the 2010 User Feedback Award Winner: Monika Nauroth

Company: Santander Consumer Bank in Germany Title: Analytical Risk Expert Job responsibility: Developing risk scorecards Products: SAS Credit Scoring for Banking, SAS Enterprise Miner Thanks to her suggestions, bug reports and willingness to ask “What if?” Monika Nauroth helped SAS isolate problems and greatly improve usability and functionality in SAS

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Anne-Lindsay BeallMarch 22, 2009 0

Meet the SAS User Feedback Award winner

At Opening Session, Annette Harris, Vice President of SAS Technical Support told the audience that user feedback is one of the main ingredients for improving the decision-making power of SAS software. “We value your feedback…we encourage it…and we use it….to make our software better and more responsive to our customers’

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Artificial Intelligence | Innovation | Predictions

Colby HokeJanuary 12, 2026 0

AI engineering: The unifying force

If AI engineering is the connective tissue, what exactly does it connect? In part one of this series, I made the case that AI engineering isn't just another buzzword – it's a discipline that integrates the technical, ethical and human dimensions of building AI systems. So, what are we connecting,

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Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Sophia RowlandDecember 22, 2025 0

There is yet another AI productivity gap

When I first started as a data scientist, there was a gap. I met with dozens of organizations who would invest time and resources into building accurate and tuned models and then ask, “What now?” They had a fantastic model in hand but couldn’t get it into a place and

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Innovation | SAS Events

Vrushali SawantDecember 17, 2025 0

What does AI built right look like? Five SAS Hackathon teams answer that question

Here's what separates responsible innovators from everyone else: they ask uncomfortable questions before they build, not after. At the SAS Hackathon, five teams proved this in practice. Working under real-world constraints and problem statements, they didn’t start with frameworks or compliance checklists. They started with three simple questions: For what

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Artificial Intelligence

Sophia RowlandDecember 16, 2025 0

No one wants your AI Slop

Generative AI has seen drastic improvement in image, video, audio, and text generation within the last few years. Humans, on the other hand, are still catching up on determining when it’s appropriate to use Generative AI and how to review the content generated by AI before sharing it with others.

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Analytics | Machine Learning

John CampbellNovember 14, 2025 0

Revolutionizing industrial safety: How digital twins and AI are transforming PPE detection

Digital twin technology generates diverse, accurately labeled synthetic datasets in virtual environments, enabling faster, safer, and more reliable AI model development for PPE detection.

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Artificial Intelligence | Innovation | Predictions

Colby HokeOctober 20, 2025 0

AI engineering: The discipline that will shape the future

Before we get started, I’d like to acknowledge that we’re inundated with buzzwords – all day, every day. I work in marketing, so I totally understand I’m part of the group to blame (sorry). But hear me out: “AI engineering” not only makes sense, but it’s critical to the future

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Analytics | SAS Events

Caslee SimsOctober 7, 2025 0

7 pillars of leadership for career growth

Leadership doesn’t start with a title; it starts with action. In statistical programming, that might mean stepping up to explain a complex data set in a cross-functional meeting, suggesting a new way to visualize results or taking ownership of a project that goes beyond coding. These are the moments where

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Artificial Intelligence

John MaynardOctober 6, 2025 0

Improving SNAP quality assurance with advanced analytics

Food assistance programs like SNAP are lifelines for millions of households. Yet, ensuring their accuracy is an ongoing challenge for state agencies managing them. Even small errors in eligibility decisions can quickly add up, costing states billions, straining resources and undermining trust in the program. The question isn’t whether these

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

Josh BeckOctober 2, 2025 0

The need for AI safeguards with human-in-the-loop systems

AI systems have problems. They don’t always work right. They hallucinate, lie, or simply forget the all-important closing bracket in a JSON payload. AI systems need accountability, safeguards and oversight. But what should that look like? Human-in-the-loop (HITL) and its companion human-on-the-loop are in a nascent stage. These strategies, designed

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Artificial Intelligence | Learn SAS

Abel SajSeptember 26, 2025 0

Teaching AI how to play a video game

Reinforcement learning is a framework that allows AI systems to learn from experience and make decisions in dynamic environments.   One way to explore its potential is by training an AI agent to play a video game in real time. This controlled environment demonstrates principles that apply to everyday business challenges.

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Alexandru BobeSeptember 25, 2025 0

Real-time computer vision for worker safety using SAS Event Stream Processing

In high-risk industries like construction and manufacturing, worker safety isn’t just a priority; it’s a constant challenge. Fast-moving environments, heavy machinery, and human unpredictability make it incredibly tough to monitor compliance and catch dangerous behavior before it leads to injury. As data scientists, we wanted to tackle that challenge head-on.

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