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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

From concept to value - the machine learning curve

Mark BakkerJune 20, 2018 0

From concept to value — the machine learning curve

Advanced analytics is an important part of artificial intelligence (AI). Machine learning, or the ability of computers to learn from data, rather than through programming rules, means that more complex problems can be addressed than would otherwise be possible. It is significantly easier to supply lots of data and examples

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Health Care | Sports & Entertainment

Advanced Analytics

The analytical advantage: Peering into the future of manufacturing

Steve LudlowJune 20, 2018 0

The analytical advantage: Peering into the future of manufacturing

Too many manufacturers find themselves stuck in the past, prisoners of their own highly complex systems and supply chains. They sit on treasure troves of data generated by machinery, employees and customers, but lack the ability to turn it into actionable insight. Business intelligence (BI) has long been a manufacturing

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization

Sertalp B. CayJune 13, 2018 0

Visiting all 30 Major League Baseball Stadiums - with Python and SAS® Viya™

Ballpark Chasers A cross-country trip is pretty much an all-American experience, and so is baseball. Traveling around the country to see all 30 Major League Baseball (MLB) stadiums is not a new idea; there's even a social network between so-called "Ballpark Chasers" where people communicate and share their journeys. Even

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

line drawing of robot beside a computer model

Ilknur Kaynar Kabul

Ilknur Kaynar KabulJune 12, 2018 0

Interpret model predictions with partial dependence and individual conditional expectation plots

Continuing our series on model interpretability, this post explains two methods for plotting variables that can give insight into how a model is working. Assessing a model`s accuracy usually is not enough for a data scientist who wants to know more about how a model is working. Often data scientists

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Yue QiJune 7, 2018 0

Recurrent neural networks: An essential tool for machine learning

Sequence models, especially recurrent neural network (RNN) and similar variants, have gained tremendous popularity over the last few years because of their unparalleled ability to handle unstructured sequential data. The reason these models are called “recurrent” is that they work with data that occurs in a sequence, such as text

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Cameron McLauchlin

Cameron McLauchlinJune 7, 2018 0

Putting the Pieces Together to Drive Transformational Change in Global Health Care

What if we already had everything we needed to solve the world’s greatest health care challenges? We actually do. We already have the data, expertise and technology to transform the way health care and life-changing therapies are delivered globally. We have access to more data than ever before, and not

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Ivor G. MoanJune 5, 2018 0

How will AI re-shape the movie experience?

May 4 – Star Wars Day – has come and gone again, but as always, offered a chance to have some fun with data and analytics. Mary Osborne used text analytics to show Luke Skywalker’s emotional journey across the movies, from young and idealistic to older and more jaded, but

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Sports & Entertainment

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

ramsessalinasJune 5, 2018 0

3 retos de TI que enfrenta al adquirir software analítico y cómo SAS ayuda a resolverlos

Cuando los beneficios para el negocio están bien fundamentados y cuentan con su aprobación, es momento de pasar la estafeta al área de TI, que se encargará de validar que existan las condiciones y recursos tecnológicos suficientes que soporten los requerimientos de negocio. Entonces, ¿qué opina su CIO/CTO? ¿Cuál es

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Advanced Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Hidden Insights: Is your marketing programme ready for attribution modelling?

Steven HofmansJune 1, 2018 0

Is your marketing programme ready for attribution modelling?

Marketing attribution is a way of understanding the impact of different channels and touch points on customer decisions and spending. It allows businesses to allocate responsibility for sales (and therefore income) to particular channels or campaigns, and see which are most effective in driving sales and profits, and which give

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Susan KahlerMay 31, 2018 0

From Aristotle to Pi: Practical advice from a chief data scientist

What can you learn from a chief data scientist who's worked in analytics for for 25 years and has been involved in the development of many key SAS solutions, including SAS Enterprise Miner? As a veteran of the analytics industry, Wayne Thompson has witnessed the evolution of machine learning and

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

experiencia cliente analítica

Mauricio GonzálezMay 30, 2018 0

Cómo la analítica equilibra precios competitivos y permite rentabilidad sana

Todo se basa en una sencilla teoría económica: cuando los precios de los productos aumentan, la gente no está dispuesta a pagarlos y, en consecuencia, la demanda se va a pique; evidentemente, sucede el efecto contrario cuando se reducen. No obstante, el mecanismo que se activa al modificar dicho valor

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Health Care | Manufacturing | Retail | Travel

Advanced Analytics

Hospitals use SAS for antibiotic stewardship to focus on preventing antimicrobial resistance in a rational way

Morten Krogh DanielsenMay 24, 2018 0

5 answers to how data can prevent antimicrobial resistance

Hospitals use SAS for antibiotic stewardship to focus on using antibiotics in a rational way. The purpose is to reduce antimicrobial resistance and excessive or inappropriate prescription of antibiotics. In this short blog post, I answer five of the most common questions concerning how data can prevent antimicrobial resistance. 1. Why

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management

Hidden Insights: GDPR is affecting model deployment - how to deal with it

Mathias LannerMay 23, 2018 0

GDPR is affecting model deployment - how to deal with it

Model deployment is a crucial part of the model life cycle. Having developed and validated your model, you need to be able to put it to work. This “putting to work” stage is called deployment, and it is far from trivial. At this stage, the model ceases to be “training”

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management | SAS Events

Larry LaRussoMay 21, 2018 0

Technology that gets the most from the Cloud

SAS Viya is our latest extension of the SAS Platform and interoperable with SAS® 9.4. There were a number of SAS Viya presentations at SAS Global Forum 2018. In this series, we will review several of the most interesting talks. This post reviews Hadley Christoffels’ talk, A Need For Speed: Loading Data via the Cloud.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Internet of Things

Héctor CoboMay 15, 2018 0

Anticipar y no reaccionar, las ventajas de una cadena de suministro efectiva

Sábado por la tarde. Un aficionado al futbol visita la tienda de conveniencia más cercana para comprar todo lo necesario para disfrutar el partido de su equipo favorito: botanas, comida, bebidas. Recorre los pasillos, pero no encuentra todo lo que quiere. Pregunta al dependiente; éste le responde que algunos de

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Manufacturing | Retail

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Hidden Insights I Advanced analytics increases the efficiency of tax administrations

Mads KroghMay 15, 2018 0

Advanced analytics increases the efficiency of tax administrations

Tax administrations are under pressure like never before. Digitisation, both in the public sector and in society in general, is completely changing how data is moving around – for better and worse. It's not really a viable solution to just allocate more employees to manual tax inspections. Advanced analytics is

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Senioe management of organisations using data want to increase effectiveness and improve governance.

Caroline HermonMay 14, 2018 0

The key to increase effectiveness of organisations using data

I get asked a lot of questions by customers at all levels. They all want to know how to solve their problems, and it is part of my role to help them find answers. The range of questions is extremely broad. Data scientists want to know how they can improve

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Advanced Analytics

Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels

Morten Krogh DanielsenMay 9, 2018 0

Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels

The use of antibiotics is growing rapidly. Excessive or inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics and lack of follow-up on treatments results in antimicrobial resistance. The antimicrobials become resistant, and therefore they do not act on antibiotics as expected. This makes treatment ineffective, and already now 20-50 percent of all antibiotic prescriptions

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Management | Machine Learning

Paradise lost and found: how AI and analytics found the UK’s best place

John SpoonerMay 8, 2018 0

Paradise lost and found: how AI and analytics found the UK’s best place

You may never have heard of it, but the small, West Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge is the UK’s best place to live. Whenever a value judgement like this is made it’s easy to dismiss it as subjective. Surely the UK’s ‘best’ place is down to preference and will be

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

AI and changing analytics

Aneshan Ramaloo

Aneshan RamalooMay 7, 2018 0

Artificial intelligence and changing analytics

In my last post, I talked to Prenton Chetty, Head of Analytics at Nedbank, about the impact of analytics on the business, and how modelling has changed the conversation and improved decision making. This post continues our discussion, and explores Prenton’s views on how data science is changing with AI,

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanMay 7, 2018 0

SAS tools for GDPR privacy compliant reporting

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) taking effect on 25 May 2018 pertains not only to organizations located within the EU; it applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location. Here are four selected SAS tools for GDPR that allow you to protect personal data in SAS reports by suppressing counts in small demographic group reports.

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

How Analytics Is Shaping the World of Sport

Reece CliffordMay 4, 2018 0

How analytics is shaping the world of sport

In the following 2012 season, NBA teams shot an average of 18.4 three-point shots per game, which had risen by four shots per game since the 2001-02 season. Just five years later, this number rose by 8.6 attempts per game, to an average of 27 attempts in 2017. But what caused this increase?

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Sports & Entertainment

Advanced Analytics

How data science revamps the way we do business

Aneshan Ramaloo

Aneshan RamalooMay 3, 2018 0

How data science revamps the way we do business

Innovation labs remain an important way of introducing both innovation and analytics to business, especially as artificial intelligence becomes more important. I caught up with Prenton Chetty, Head of Analytics at Nedbank, to discuss how he sees his role changing in the future. Tell us about your current role at

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Is the AI ethics discussion really about cultural change?

Philip ReschkeMay 3, 2018 0

Is the AI ethics discussion really about cultural change?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to have a dramatic impact on our professional and personal lives. The big question is how and when. I think both those depend, at least in part, on how we (that is, people in general) respond to the technology as it develops. There are significant

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Falko SchulzApril 26, 2018 0

Analyze ticket sales using location analytics and customer segmentation in SAS® Visual Analytics

Analyzing ticket sales and customer data for large sports and entertainment events is a complex endeavor. But SAS Visual Analytics makes it easy, with location analytics, customer segmentation, predictive artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities – and more. This blog post covers a brief overview of these features by using a fictitious event company

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Advanced Analytics | Students & Educators

Data science education: matching up expectations and reality

Jaimy van DijkApril 26, 2018 0

Data science education: matching up expectations and reality

The SAS Data Science and Advanced Analytics Forum brings together businesses and universities, and at a recent event, universities described courses that focused on providing students with technical skills and competencies to handle data, together with some understanding of how data scientists use software. Businesses, however, emphasised the importance of

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Minority Report risk-based monitoring: Find the hidden potential

Lasse Skydstofte

Lasse SkydstofteApril 25, 2018 0

Minority Report risk-based monitoring: Find the hidden potential

Most of us have probably seen Steven Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi movie Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise. In an “absurd” future society, a special police unit hunts future criminals before they commit their crimes and the illegal activity takes place. The police use sci-fi tools, such as “pre-visualisation,” to stop the lawbreakers

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

How to improve the health care sector

Lars VejlgaardApril 23, 2018 0

How to improve the health care sector

Every day, managers in the health care sector are challenged with demands from politicians and influencers to find new ways to improve the health care sector. One of the biggest challenges for health care management is to handle the digitisation of the sector and to get more value out of

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Advanced Analytics

Susan KahlerApril 20, 2018 0

How to build deep learning models with SAS

SAS® supports the creation of deep neural network models. Examples of these models include convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, feedforward neural networks and autoencoder neural networks. Let’s examine in more detail how SAS creates deep learning models using SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning. Deep learning models with

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