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Analytics | Data for Good | Innovation

Olivia OjedaApril 22, 2024 0

5 smart cities at the intersection of sustainability and technology

Urbanization is rapidly accelerating, allowing communities to grow with more access to services and technological advancements. However, this quick change in growth can present challenges as well, such as pollution and lack of infrastructure. Smart cities can support urbanization by offering innovative solutions with artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of

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Jonny McElhinney

Jonny McElhinneyNovember 16, 2023 0

Data for Good: Galapagos sea turtle recognition

Can we use Computer Vision (CV) to recognize the identity of over 500 Galapagos sea turtles by using just an image? This was the question asked of SAS by researchers at the Galapagos Science Center (GSC), a joint partnership between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s (UNC) Center for

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data for Good

SAS KoreaMay 22, 2023 0

SAS Viya, 경쟁 제품 대비 30배 빠른 속도 입증

‘SAS 이노베이트 2023’에서 최신 AI, 클라우드 분석 기술 및 사례 발표 세계적인 분석 선두 기업 SAS가 5월 8일부터 10일까지(미국 현지 시간) 미국 플로리다주 올랜도에서 ‘SAS 이노베이트 2023(SAS Innovate 2023)’ 행사를 개최했습니다. ‘SAS 이노베이트’는 전 세계 산업별 전문가와 오피니언 리더들이 참석하는 SAS의 연례 비즈니스 컨퍼런스입니다. 이번 행사에서는 SAS Viya 제품의 놀라운

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Analytics | Curiosity | Data Culture and Fluency | Data for Good

Evan MarkfieldMay 3, 2023 0

How SAS helps Galapagos researchers learn more about phytoplankton populations

Sometimes the smallest creatures can have the biggest impact. Think, for example, of how often you hear about people’s gut microbiomes and their outsized impact on overall health. Now zoom out to a much larger ecosystem and you'll have an idea of what a team of SAS analytics volunteers was

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Analytics | Data for Good

Evan MarkfieldMay 1, 2023 0

Visualizing new ways to protect sharks with data and analytics

Where do hammerhead sharks go at night? And perhaps more importantly, why? That's what Research Scientist and Professor Alex Hearn of the Galapagos Science Center hoped that a team of SAS analytics volunteers would be able to answer by analyzing data he's collected over nearly two decades. The project is

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Analytics

Kristi BoydMay 1, 2023 0

Trustworthy AI: 3 reasons we need it now

Who is responsible for ensuring that new AI technologies are fair and ethical? Does that responsibility land on AI developers? On innovators? On CEOs? Or is the responsibility more widespread? At SAS, we believe that it is everyone’s duty to innovate responsibly with AI. We believe that adhering to trustworthy

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Data for Good | Work & Life at SAS

Evan MarkfieldNovember 22, 2022 0

Data for good volunteer helps bring 'Sweeter Dreams'

Jason Colón was hoping to work on a data for good project – any data for good project, really – offered through SAS’ analytic volunteer program. He had no idea the one he would be asked to do would hit so close to home for him. The organization – which

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Data for Good | SAS Events | Students & Educators | Work & Life at SAS

Evan MarkfieldAugust 22, 2022 0

Data continues taking donation drives to the next level

What does data have to do with dry-erase markers? Everything if you’re looking to help teachers stock their classrooms with supplies they actually need. That's the goal of the SAS Data Drive – a school-supply donation drive with a special focus on data, undertaken for the second-consecutive year – conducted

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Data for Good | Students & Educators | Work & Life at SAS

Mike JanesJune 2, 2022 0

How to become a data scientist: Who lives at the beach

Robert Blanchard's role as a data scientist at SAS has afforded him the flexibility to live where he wants, in his case, on a beach in San Diego.

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Analytics | Data for Good | SAS Events

Anne-Lindsay BeallMay 11, 2021 0

Dawnté Early: Helping data speak for those who can’t

Early in her career, a mentor gave Dawnté Early some career advice that would ultimately change her life. “If you can learn how to analyze and dig into your own data, instead of paying others to do it for you, you’ll be able to do your own research and write

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Pensamiento analítico y capacidad de innovar, las principales habilidades que se requieren para poder trabajar en 2025

José Mutis O.November 25, 2020 0

Pensamiento analítico y capacidad de innovar, las principales habilidades que se requieren para poder trabajar en 2025

Recientemente, fueron publicados los resultados del Informe sobre el Futuro de los Empleos del Foro Económico Mundial, el cual no solo traza el mapa de lo que serán los empleos y las habilidades del futuro, sino que tiene en consideración el impacto que producirá en la forma de trabajar en la

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization

Michelle WellsOctober 23, 2020 0

Uncovering the truth about sharks with analytics

[Editor's note: This post was co-authored with Fritz Lehman, COO of Zencos] In 1976, the blockbuster movie Jaws was the number one grossing film. Why? Because it had a great villain – the great white shark. The movie told a vivid (and all too familiar) story about plans gone awry

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Analytics | Data for Good | Work & Life at SAS

Elliot InmanJune 1, 2020 0

Data for good: the home edition

“He spends a lot of time wandering around in circles in the backyard,” my wife said to someone on the telephone. That’s true. Our backyard is only about 1/8th of an acre and I have taken to wandering outside and walking around the fence line. Ostensibly, I am checking to

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Education | Health Care

Analytics

Natalia Summerville

Natalia SummervilleMarch 4, 2020 0

Breast milk, babies, NCSU students and SAS/OR

I'm a planner, and my plan was to have a completely natural birth and to breast feed only. This plan was written in stone (or so I thought). Long story short – my birthing plan flew out the window. One of my complications was very high blood pressure, which refused

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Datos analítica

Ivan Fernando Herrera

Ivan Fernando HerreraJanuary 22, 2020 0

Visualizando los datos de manera más efectiva e inteligente

Cuando hablamos de convertir datos en inteligencia no solamente estamos haciendo referencia a obtener de ellos conocimiento para tomar las mejores decisiones. También se trata de tener formas de comunicación mucho más efectivas e impactantes a través de capacidades avanzadas de visualización, para lograr que el conocimiento sea realmente usado

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Susan KahlerOctober 25, 2019 0

Studying endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) using NHANES data with SAS

With NHANES data from the CDC, we can use SAS to research the impact of endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Special sampling techniques are needed when using these data.

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data for Good

Carlos CáceresSeptember 6, 2019 0

El auge del análisis de sentimientos, la solución para que las máquinas entiendan mejor a los humanos

Los seres humanos tenemos una característica –entre muchas que nos hacen únicos– que requiere de la comprensión de nuestros interlocutores para causar el efecto deseado: somos capaces de decir una cosa queriendo expresar un sentimiento completamente diferente. Lo llamamos sarcasmo, ironía o mordacidad. Pero, si a veces es difícil para

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Analytics | Data for Good

Tom SaboJanuary 29, 2019 0

Analytics can help combat the horrors of human trafficking

January serves as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month, culminating in the annual observation of National Freedom Day on February 1. For many, this month presents an opportunity to refocus efforts to slow, and ultimately stop, human trafficking around the globe, but especially here in the United States. The

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Data for Good | Work & Life at SAS

I-sah HsiehOctober 1, 2018 0

SAS mobilizes volunteers, analytics experts to support Hurricane Florence relief

Once a disaster is over, and the frenzy of news stories and social media posts has subsided, it can seem like the crisis has passed. However, for those Hurricane Florence survivors left with ruined homes and businesses, damaged schools and buildings, there remains a struggle to return to normalcy. As

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Analytics | Data for Good | SAS Events

Josh MorganSeptember 28, 2018 0

Exploring the human side of data

About two-thirds of the way through her Analytics Experience presentation, Dr. Tricia Wang showed a video from Frans de Waal, a world-renowned primatologist. The video showed two monkeys receiving rewards for giving a researcher a rock. Each time a monkey handed over a rock it received a piece of cucumber.

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Elliot InmanSeptember 11, 2018 0

Data visualization, the musical

The data I was analyzing was about “trust.” Maybe that’s what got me thinking about Stephen Sondheim, the Broadway composer and lyricist of musicals like Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods and the lyricist for West Side Story. Trust is a heavy emotional topic. Developmental psychologists

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Communications | Education | Government | Health Care

Analytics | Data for Good

Mary OsborneAugust 20, 2018 0

Having fun, getting involved and feeling useful: Data for Good

I love data; I’m a real and unabashed data geek. I'm the sci-fi nerd who has fun with data from Star Wars and analyzes World of Warcraft logs using SAS. More importantly, I love what data can do. I love the way it can show people new insights and new ideas,

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Analytics | Data for Good | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Jen DunhamJune 29, 2018 0

Data analytics and the battle to stop insider threats

Bloomberg Government reported in the 2017 fiscal year that federal agencies could commit more than $1 billion on countermeasures for insider threats. Whether that number turned out to be accurate or not, it highlights the priority that the federal government is placing on protecting its information and data from being

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Analytics | Data for Good

Steve KearneyJune 18, 2018 0

Data for Good: How Analytics Can Help the Opioid Crisis

A person in the United States dies every 15 minutes because of substance use disorder. The number has doubled in the past 10 years as the crisis continues to grow in severity, especially in rural areas with high unemployment. Using analytics to map the growth of opioid deaths shows the

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Sandra Hernandez

Sandra HernandezMay 31, 2018 0

La analítica que inspira lo extraordinario

El próximo 21 de junio, el mismo día del Solsticio de Verano (el más largo de todo el año en el Hemisferio Norte) y en el que dos de los equipos latinoamericanos en el Mundial: Perú y Argentina, se jugarán gran parte de su suerte en el torneo al enfrentar

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Data for Good | SAS Events | Students & Educators

Trent SmithMay 11, 2018 0

Students showcase power of open data to help government

Open data is critical to research, particularly at universities. The many university students that attend SAS Global Forum bring an energy and vitality to the conference that is unmistakable. They’re everywhere…in sessions, social activities, out on the town and, of course, the academic events. This year, 150 of them graced

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Education | Government

Analytics | Data for Good

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Saurabh GuptaMay 4, 2018 0

Healthy Nevada Project drives life-changing results

Landmark population health study involving 50,000 northern Nevadans turns to SAS to reveal hidden health insights These are exciting times in health care. Earlier this week I read that the NIH will soon open enrollment for its “All of Us” initiative. The research program aims to compile the genetic and health

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

I-sah HsiehApril 6, 2018 0

Data can tell stories that transform the world

Data and analytics touch our lives every day. Consider: A call from your bank warning of a suspicious transaction. A well-timed discounted offer for something you need. Most people realize that data and analytics are behind these things, but they remain on the periphery of mainstream conversations. We need to

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Analytics | Data for Good

Leo SadovyDecember 20, 2017 0

Using data to discover what’s driving hospital readmissions

US health care costs are the highest in the developed world, despite per-capita healthcare spending roughly double that of the others, but with outcomes worse-or-equal-to comparable countries. A 2014 Commonwealth Fund study ranked the United States 11th out of 11 major industrial nations in overall healthcare. An aging population is

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