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Artificial Intelligence

Albert QianJune 25, 2024 0

3 approaches to strengthening your social benefits program

Social benefits are crucial government services, especially during downturns, helping families navigate uncertainty and survive. Today, citizens interact with government services online, from applying for benefits to making appointments. This was particularly beneficial during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing services to remain accessible while maintaining social distance. However, going digital also

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Analytics

Steve KearneyMay 17, 2023 0

How COVID spurred drug repurposing research: A conversation with an FDA data scientist

The pandemic caused public health agencies and life sciences companies to scramble to find effective treatments. Exploring the efficacy of existing drugs to treat COVID, an example of what's known as drug repurposing, was an intense focus for Qais Hatim, a Data Scientist at the US Food and Drug Administration

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Advanced Analytics

SAS Viya Machine Learning - Figure 6: Heat map analysis for two correctly classified images

Mu HeApril 27, 2023 0

Using SAS Viya Machine Learning to classify COVID from non-COVID

In her first blog post, SAS' Mu He shows you how to train a convolutional neural network that can accurately detect patients with COVID-19 using the transfer learning technique.

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Analytics

Jay UpchurchMarch 27, 2023 0

CIO to CIO: Closing the resiliency gap in your organization

When your company's resiliency is put to the test, how will you manage? Do you have a game plan that keeps the ball in your hands throughout the game? Or if there's a turnover, can you quickly regain control and execute a strong offense? How much of your resiliency playbook

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Hidden Insights - New clinical trial technologies for a new era of discovery

Andy BaylissSeptember 29, 2022 0

New clinical trial technologies for a new era of discovery

Getting a new medicine to market is a marathon, not a sprint. Or perhaps a better analogy is a steeplechase, where competitors must overcome gruelling obstacles on their way to the finish line. Clinical trials are one of the biggest hurdles on the route to market and they’re getting more

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Analytics | Data for Good | SAS Events

Emily JohnsonAugust 19, 2022 0

Do the most good: Behind the scenes of the Young Health Leader Summit

The Young Health Leader Summit is a one-of-a-kind event for health care heroes to come together and tackle some of the biggest challenges in the industry. The event also hosts a unique competition where the young health leaders are tasked with "doing the most good" in 24 hours. The 2022

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Analytics | Data for Good

Melody Schopp, PhD

Melody Schopp, PhDAugust 16, 2022 0

SAS, Hunt Institute partner to help states alleviate learning loss effects of COVID-19

In March 2020, when nearly all schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most school leaders would never have anticipated the speed or length of school closures, nor the magnitude of its impact on students and educators. As state departments of education and local school districts continue to take measures

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Augusta ZhangJuly 27, 2022 0

Long lines got you down? AI can help.

Queuing up to wait for services is a nearly universal experience. We routinely arrange ourselves in single file lines at the bank, at retail stores, and at the fast-food drive-through. Since the COVID pandemic hit, we've increasingly waited in lines to ensure our health – lining up to be seen

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Health Care | Retail

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Soundarya Palanisamy

Soundarya PalanisamyJune 24, 2022 0

Decentralizing clinical trials: how COVID-19 has changed drug development

The COVID-19 pandemic brought an enormous urgency to the life sciences sector. Companies vied for suitable treatments and in less than a year, COVID-19 vaccines were developed. This demonstrated clearly that the sector could move at speed when necessary. Though vaccines were supported by regulators, inefficiencies in vaccine and drug development were exposed.

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Alex CoopJune 8, 2022 0

Executives quiz supply chain expert about analytics challenges

Retail expert Charlie Chase recently participated in a private unplugged discussion about disruption challenges with retail executives hosted by the Retail Council of Canada. All quotes have been edited for maximum clarity, and participants have been de-identified. The last two years have created a major disruption for retailers and consumer

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Analytics | Data for Good

Melody Schopp, PhD

Melody Schopp, PhDMay 2, 2022 0

2 states take a data-driven look at learning loss and recovery

We recently passed the two-year anniversary of US school closures that transformed schooling for students, teachers and parents. The pandemic induced the largest remote learning experiment in history. But, lack of time to prepare for remote education and unequal internet and device access left many students unserved or underserved. It was

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Analytics

manage customer demand

Ronald Breedveld

Ronald BreedveldFebruary 4, 2022 0

How to better manage customer demand in an economic downturn

Before the outbreak of COVID-19, demand planning hardly ever matched actual sales. But since the virus reached Europe, the level of sales in different product categories became even more difficult to predict. How could the garden centers have imagined that consumers would invest their money in a roof, pavement or

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Analytics | Data for Good

Caslee SimsJanuary 13, 2022 0

Revisiting your favorite SAS content from 2021

From COVID-19 vaccines, climate change, supply chain issues and everything in between, 2021 set forth a wealth of thought-provoking ideas and data-related topics for us to share with you on this blog. Last year, SAS announced more groundbreaking partnerships and expanded upon its corporate responsibility efforts to help solve some

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization

Mark DemersNovember 2, 2021 0

How analytics helps move organizations to a 'new normal'

Industries including sports and entertainment, travel, manufacturing, education and government benefit from analytical insights In the United States and other parts of the world, there are signs. Record automobile traffic. Surging demand for workers. And a continued push to vaccinate. The pandemic and its effects are still very much with

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Analytics | Data for Good

Caslee SimsOctober 1, 2021 0

What matters now when it comes to COVID-19

Early in the pandemic, we used this blog to offer resources for responding to COVID-19, recovering from the economic losses, and reimagining life after the pandemic. By now, everyone has read about testing, contact tracing, social distancing, treatment protocols and vaccines. Whether or not you have had COVID yourself, all

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Analytics

Caslee SimsSeptember 1, 2021 0

A deep dive into COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and the future of the pandemic

This virus is very scary and it changes constantly. So when you let a virus like that infect millions and millions of people, it's going to make all of those mistakes in copying itself over and over again. - Meghan Schaeffer, Epidemiologist, SAS Meghan Schaeffer, EdD, MPH, MPA, is a

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Analytics

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Caslee SimsAugust 24, 2021 0

Visualizing COVID-19 vaccine data using SAS® Viya®

Curious about how the COVID-19 vaccine has impacted the world around you? This SAS Viya powered data visualization shows information related to the COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the United States. Here's what you can learn from this dashboard. Percentage of vaccinated Americans In August 2021, the CDC reported that over 50% of

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Management

Brian HoldenJuly 27, 2021 0

Are credit unions the future of banking?

If the big banks won’t help when times are tough, customers will turn to smaller, simpler providers. And once they’ve switched, banks will struggle to win them back. I’ve written before about how banks are an essential part of the UK’s social fabric. Our economy depends on the availability of

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Analytics

David-Alexandre Laurie

David-Alexandre LaurieJune 18, 2021 0

Les 5 grands défis du retail pour 2021

Avec la crise sanitaire, le monde du retail s’est profondément transformé. Comment s’adapter aux changements et comment anticiper le retour à la normale ? Et surtout, quelle sera cette nouvelle normalité ? Les contraintes et restrictions qui accompagnent la crise sanitaire ont eu divers impacts sur la consommation, dont une

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Artificial Intelligence

How to weather COVID’s perfect storm of insurance fraud

Paul RidgeMay 21, 2021 0

How to weather COVID’s perfect storm of insurance fraud

The pandemic has hit insurers hard. Despite lower claims volumes due to reduced crime and fewer cars on the road, the sheer financial and reputational cost of COVID-19 has been enormous for the industry as a whole. Since March 2020, Lloyd's of London has made a loss due to GBP

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Analytics | Data for Good

Ana MorenoMay 13, 2021 0

El modelo analítico que ayuda a salvar vidas

Más de un año después de que la Organización Mundial de la Salud declarara la pandemia de COVID-19, se han superado los 150 millones de casos confirmados y hemos llegado a más de tres millones de muertes a nivel global a causa de esta enfermedad. A corto plazo la perspectiva

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Analytics

Paul RidgeMay 3, 2021 0

Shock to the system: How COVID-19 may have changed insurance forever

By Paul Ridge, Head of Insurance, SAS UK & Ireland Black swan events are not unknown to the insurance industry. Whether it’s natural disasters such as the Japanese earthquake in 2011, the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 or pandemics such as the SARS virus in 2002. By their nature, these kinds

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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

Work & Life at SAS

Katie Seavey Pegoraro

Katie Seavey PegoraroMarch 30, 2021 0

It's Been a Long Year

These days I'm hearing from people who are feeling out of place. Of course they want a world without COVID-19 and for life to feel like it used to. But as others make future plans and celebrate the potential return to "normal", they are feeling hesitant or more uncomfortable than

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Work & Life at SAS

Katie Seavey Pegoraro

Katie Seavey PegoraroMarch 23, 2021 0

Alcohol use during the pandemic

*This interview was recorded last summer, but the realities of the pandemic and alcohol use are still relevant today and so I am re-sharing this post. We continue to experience unique stressors, uncertainty, grief and isolation. This video provides specific steps you can try today to assess and alter behaviors

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Work & Life at SAS

Katie Seavey Pegoraro

Katie Seavey PegoraroFebruary 23, 2021 0

A year of COVID-19: grief and resources for support

As I write this blog post, we are nearing the milestone of 500,000 deaths in the U.S. and 2.5 million worldwide. In the U.S. we are also nearing the one-year anniversary of that week in March where the realities of the pandemic set-in and everything changed. We are all caught

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Analytics

Steve KearneyJanuary 15, 2021 0

How analytics can improve vaccine distribution and administration

The management of the COVID-19 vaccination program is one of the most complex tasks in modern history. Even without the added complications of administering the vaccine during a pandemic, the race to vaccinate the populations who need it most all while maintaining the necessary cold-storage protocols, meeting double dose requirements,

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Government | Health Care | Retail

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Tiffany Carpenter

Tiffany CarpenterDecember 8, 2020 0

Disruption disrupted: How COVID-19 put the customer back into digital transformation

Companies have been talking about disruption for years. The word appears in every other top-level business meeting – yet the revolution hasn’t happened. Many businesses have little to show for it. In truth, disruption needs more than enthusiasm. Without a strategy, organisations have simply transformed long, complicated paper processes into

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Analytics

Leo SadovyDecember 8, 2020 0

Fools rush in … trends and predictions for 2021

COVID-19 has upset nearly every prediction and business plan for 2020 across the planet. Making predictions for 2021 may seem like a fool’s errand at this point, but many trends and consequences are already obvious and emerging from the global pandemic. The last global pandemic of this magnitude, the Spanish

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Work & Life at SAS

Alyssa GrubeDecember 7, 2020 0

People Behind the Models: Falko Schulz

When news about a new Coronavirus outbreak in China first hit the news, Falko and his colleague Anand Chitale wanted to know more. “We knew we could use SAS to analyze the data and discover new insights,” he said. By now, you’ve heard about our work helping customers combat the coronavirus pandemic.

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