Analytics | Machine Learning

Sylvie Jacquet-FaucillonApril 11, 2019 0

Les Bots : nouvelle vague de la 4ème révolution industrielle

Et si, en dehors de la nouvelle organisation des moyens de production, la 4ème révolution industrielle induisait également une évolution significative dans la gestion de la connaissance intrinsèque à chaque domaine ? Et si les nouvelles technologies numériques permettaient aux acteurs opérationnels d’accéder simplement à cette connaissance, le plus souvent fruit de méthodes

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French

Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Sian RobertsApril 9, 2019 0

So, you’ve figured out NLP but what’s NLU?

Natural language understanding (NLU) is a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) that enables machine reading comprehension. While both understand human language, NLU goes beyond the structural understanding of language to interpret intent, resolve context and word ambiguity, and even generate human language on its own. NLU is designed for

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English

Analytics | Data for Good

Tom SaboApril 5, 2019 0

Countering human trafficking using text analytics and AI

Recently, the North Carolina Human Trafficking Commission hosted a regional symposium to help strengthen North Carolina’s multidisciplinary response to human trafficking. One of the speakers shared an anecdote from a busy young woman with kids. She had returned home from work and was preparing for dinner; her young son wanted

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English

Government

Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Sian RobertsApril 3, 2019 0

Text analytics explained

Structuring a highly unstructured data source Human language is astoundingly complex and diverse. We express ourselves in infinite ways. It can be very difficult to model and extract meaning from both written and spoken language. Usually the most meaningful analysis uses a number of techniques. While supervised and unsupervised learning,

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English

Analytics | Data for Good

Yigit KarabagMarch 12, 2019 0

5 ways analytics is used at the Special Olympics

The Special Olympics is part of the inclusion movement for people with intellectual disabilities. The organisation provides year-round sports training and competitions for adults and children with intellectual disabilities. In March 2019 the Special Olympics World Games will be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. SAS is an official

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English

Data Visualization

Christina HsiaoFebruary 28, 2019 0

Automatically extracting key information from textual data

There is tremendous value buried text sources such as call center and chat dialogues, survey comments, product reviews, technical notes, legal contracts... How can we extract the signal we want amidst all the noise?

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English

Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Christina HsiaoJanuary 16, 2019 0

Reduce the cost-barrier of generating labeled text data for machine learning algorithms

Amidst the growing popularity of modern machine learning and deep learning techniques, one of the biggest challenges is the ability to obtain large amounts of training data suitable for your use case. This post discusses how the analytical approach for Named Entity Recognition (NER) can help.

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English

Analytics

Andy DaviesDecember 12, 2018 0

Analytics in policing: it starts with data

In my first post I looked at the role of analytics in policing and how analytics could and should be used to benefit modern policing. However, a key point that can be forgotten is analytics is only as good as the data it is based on. It’s vital to have

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English

Government

Analytics

Andy DaviesSeptember 21, 2018 0

How to gain an edge in fighting crime and preventing anti-social behaviour

As someone who worked in the police force for many years, I know just how important each small piece of evidence can be in securing a conviction. So in times of tightening budgets, imagine how useful it could be to have technology that helps predict when or where crimes will

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English

Government

Data for Good

Business Analytics PortugalSeptember 14, 2018 0

Data for Good: Analíticas para combater o tráfico humano

É um dos flagelos do século - o tráfico humano. Seja de crianças para trabalho inapropriado, seja de mulheres para a prostituição. É algo que ocorre por todo o mundo, com movimentações levadas a cabo por grupos bem organizados e que movimenta muitos milhões de euros. Tom Sabo, Principal Solutions

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Portuguese

Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Emily GaoJuly 12, 2018 0

How to calculate Word Mover's Distance with SAS

Word Mover's Distance (WMD) is a distance metric used to measure the dissimilarity between two documents, and its application in text analytics was introduced by a research group from Washington University in 2015. The group's paper, From Word Embeddings To Document Distances, was published on the 32nd International Conference on Machine

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English

Advanced Analytics

Hans BondeJuly 12, 2018 0

3 examples of reducing supply chain uncertainty – downstream

This is the first article in a three-part series on how to reduce uncertainty in the supply chain for lower costs. This article deals with reducing uncertainty downstream – i.e., in relations with customers (and their customers). There are several ways to define uncertainty. I like two angles, which are

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English

Manufacturing

Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Tom SaboJune 12, 2018 0

Shining a spotlight on human trafficking

My local middle school publishes a weekly paper. Very recently, I noted an article in that paper regarding an expose on human trafficking overseas, "World Slavery: The Terrors Our World Tries to Forget." The eloquent article in part highlighted how children have been exploited in the fishing industry in Ghana

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English

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good

Tom SaboMay 29, 2018 0

5 remarkable uses for text analytics

Maybe you’ve heard of text analytics (or natural language processing) as a way to analyze consumer sentiment. Businesses often use these techniques to analyze customer complaints or comments on social media, to identify when a response is needed. But text analytics has far more to offer than examining posts on

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English

Advanced Analytics

Business Analytics PortugalFebruary 7, 2018 0

A mecânica do texto

Não poucas vezes sou confrontado com pessoas que me questionam da necessidade de utilização de uma plataforma de advanced analytics para resolver temas como interpretação de texto ou risco de crédito. A pergunta tem o seu quê de racional porque, na verdade, os algoritmos de aprendizagem mecânica não evoluíram assim

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Portuguese

Analytics

Chiara MigottoFebruary 1, 2018 0

Six common questions SMEs have about text mining

It is estimated that that many companies now hold over 80% of their data in an unstructured form. In other words, not as numbers or code, but free text. This textual data arises from social media, customer comments, call center notes, books, emails, messages and the like, and holds enormous

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English

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Mary Beth MooreFebruary 1, 2018 0

13 Ways to Use AI in Military Intelligence

As a former intelligence analyst, I can't help but breathe a huge sigh of frustration. The special AI "task forces" and their massive budgets are great, but it's time to get honest about the rest of the military.  Ask any every day soldier, sailor, airman or Marine their opinion of

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English

Government

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Matthew StainerNovember 22, 2017 0

Can you improve customer experience and reduce costs to serve at the same time?

Improving customer experience and reducing costs to serve at the same time sound contradictory objectives. Surely improving customer experience requires a larger investment in it? Yet in some instances, I believe it is possible to achieve both at the same time. Last year I wrote a couple of blog posts

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English

Analytics | Data for Good | SAS Events

Trent SmithSeptember 13, 2017 0

Using government data for good: Hear leaders share analytics stories

The government has an unfathomable amount of data -- and it grows more and more each year. This puts agencies in a unique and important position to use that data for good. Whether it be improving government operations, solving some of the nation’s biggest challenges or empowering citizens in new

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English

Government

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Frederic ThysJune 23, 2017 0

AI in wonderland

To demonstrate the power of text mining and the insights it can uncover, I used SAS Text Mining technologies to extract the underlying key topics of the children's classic Alice in Wonderland. I want to show you what Alice in Wonderland can tell us about both human intelligence and artificial

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English

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Lonnie MillerApril 27, 2017 0

Tripping over text icebergs

Recently I backed into a hotel parking spot after returning from a customer dinner. It was dark and rainy, and I was tired from traveling. My mind wandered until I heard a shrill “BEEP BEEP BEEP” coming from my rental car. I looked down at the dashboard’s rear-view camera, and

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English

Manufacturing

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Steve BennettMarch 3, 2017 0

5 Tech initiatives for the Trump administration

The Obama administration made great strides in improving the government’s use of information technology over the past eight years, and now it's up to the Trump administration to expand upon it. Let’s look at five possible Trump administration initiatives that can take government’s use of information technology to the next

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English

Government

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Adele SweetwoodFebruary 1, 2017 0

Using chat transcripts to understand customer sentiment

Each day, the SAS Customer Contact Center participates in hundreds of interactions with customers, prospective customers, educators, students and the media. While the team responds to inbound calls, web forms, social media requests and emails, the live-chat sessions that occur on the corporate website make up the majority of these

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English

Analytics | Machine Learning

Fabian BuchertNovember 30, 2016 0

Ein Wahlkampf mit Trumpf – mit Textanalytics verstehen was eigentlich gemeint ist

Mal ehrlich, wenn ich Sie fragen würde, worüber die Kandidaten im diesjährigen US-Wahlkampf in ihren Aufeinandertreffen debattiert haben – welche Kernthemen würden Sie mir spontan (abseits von Skandalen und Affären) nennen? Und könnten Sie diese Kernthemen den einzelnen Kandidaten zuordnen? Als ich mir diese Frage stellte, war die Antwort –

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German

Dr. Biljana Belamaric WilseySeptember 28, 2016 0

Presidential election quiz

With the first debate between the two candidates behind us and the culmination of the US presidential election drawing near, who wouldn’t love to predict the winner? I don't have a crystal ball, but I do have the power of unstructured text analytics at my fingertips. With the help of

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English

Advanced Analytics

Simran BaggaAugust 22, 2016 0

3 Steps to big data success with text analytics

A huge proportion of big data is unstructured text (such as client interactions, product reviews, call center logs, emails, blogs and tweets). Organizations starting to invest in advanced analytics often overlook the value text analytics could add to the process. But when data scientists or analysts get to work exploring

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English

Machine Learning

Robert MoreiraJuly 29, 2016 0

Navigating the open waters of machine learning

I’m an avid open water swimmer. In order to succeed in open water races I must do two things: I must sight properly in order to swim the straightest line possible in the right direction. The straighter the line, the less I have to swim. I must use a powerful,

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English

Data for Good | Machine Learning

Tom SaboJuly 6, 2016 0

Sentiment analysis, machine learning open up world of possibilities

When a person feels sufficiently wronged to lodge a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), there’s likely to be some negative sentiment involved. But is there a connection between the language they use and the likelihood they will be compensated by the offending company? At the upcoming Sentiment

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English

Data Management | Data Visualization

Mary OsborneMay 4, 2016 0

May the 4th be with you

Most folks who know me, know I'm a bit of a Star Wars geek.  I've analyzed the original trilogy scripts and documented my findings in a paper called Star Wars and the Art of Data Science.  I'm always looking for excuses to get my hands into Star Wars data, and

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English

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management

Sylvie Jacquet-FaucillonApril 27, 2016 0

Could text analytics be the cutting-edge technology the oil and gas industry was waiting for?

  Small causes can have large effects; or how a discovery in the Barnett Shale can spike some interest in the rest of the world and change the face of the industry. This article is co-written by Sylvie Jacquet-Faucillon, Senior Analytics Presales Consultant, SAS France; and David Dozoul, Senior Adviser

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English

Energy & Utilities