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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

Sophia RowlandFebruary 12, 2020 0

An Easy Button for Data Science in Python

This blog is a part of a series on the Data Science Pilot Action Set. In this blog we review all nine actions in Python. Have you noticed the button bar in the upper right-hand corner of the SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning Programming Guide? This button bar

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization

Xavier BizouxFebruary 7, 2020 0

Kick-start model pipelines using SAS® Visual Analytics

Starting your data scientist journey? Want to build your own predictive models? SAS' Xavier Bizoux shows you how to use SAS Visual Analytics to identify which model likely to perform the best.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

Sophia RowlandFebruary 5, 2020 0

Easier Feature Generation and New Data Science Pilot Actions

This blog is a part of a series on the Data Science Pilot Action Set. In this blog, we discuss updates to Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning with the release of Viya 3.5. In the middle of my blog series, SAS released Viya 3.5. Included in Viya 3.5 was the

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization | Internet of Things

Charlie ChaseFebruary 3, 2020 0

How analytics takes wine from grape to grocery

Almost everyone enjoys a good glass of wine after a long day, but did you ever stop to wonder how the exact bottle you're looking for makes its way to the grocery store shelf? Analytics has a lot to do with it, as SAS demonstrated to attendees at the National

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Manufacturing | Retail

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Janice NewellJanuary 31, 2020 0

Driving faster value from analytics – how to deploy models and decisions quickly

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it affects our lives -- there are even AI toothbrushes! But how do businesses use AI to help them compete in the market? According to Gartner research, only half of all AI projects are deployed and 90% take more than three

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Insurance

Advanced Analytics | Data for Good

Einar HalvorsenJanuary 29, 2020 0

Enabling dreams – and partners – with a hackathon

How do you convince busy IT integration partners to take a deep dive into new technology without asking them to also first sell a solution to a client? After all, time is money for implementation partners. At SAS, we are keen to introduce our partners and, through them, more clients

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Christa CodyJanuary 16, 2020 0

Missing data? Quickly impute values using SAS Viya

This blog is part of a series on SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning (VDMML). If you're new to SAS VDMML and you want a brief overview of the features available, check out my last blog post! This blog will discuss types of missing data and how to use imputation

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinJanuary 15, 2020 0

The moment-ratio diagram

In my book Simulating Data with SAS, I show how to use a graphical tool, called the moment-ratio diagram, to characterize and compare continuous probability distributions based on their skewness and kurtosis (Wicklin, 2013, Chapter 16). The idea behind the moment-ratio diagram is that skewness and kurtosis are essential for

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Brett WujekJanuary 10, 2020 0

New method for handling incomplete data in multi-task learning

The new method tackles the challenge of missing features under the multi-task learning framework. The proposed method is effective for prediction and model estimation when missing data is present.

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Health Care

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Jose Alfredo MutisDecember 24, 2019 0

¿Y qué tal si el propósito del 2020 es más inteligencia?

El mundo ha estado escuchando de Inteligencia Artificial desde 1956 y si cree que el 2019 ya estuvo suficientemente saturado este tema, prepárese: todo lo que ha pasado hasta ahora no es más que el comienzo. El 2019 fue un año en el que IA brilló con intensidad impulsando la

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Banking | Communications | Insurance | Retail

Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Paata UgrekhelidzeDecember 23, 2019 0

Building and comparing open source models in SAS Model Studio

SAS Model Studio lets modelers use SAS alongside open source to create and compare models in a pipeline and project. Debugging, model comparison, and visual pipelines are included.

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Susan KahlerDecember 20, 2019 0

Case study: Computer Vision for monitoring tumors using image segmentation

Computer vision can augment radiologists and make the image interpretation process cheaper, faster and more accurate. The ultimate goal is to achieve a better patient outcome facilitated by the use of computer vision.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

Sophia RowlandDecember 18, 2019 0

SASPy for Modeling

This blog focuses on using SASPy for modeling and machine learning.

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Wayne ThompsonDecember 16, 2019 0

Why you should add statistical learning to your machine learning tool kit

Data scientists naturally use a lot of machine learning algorithms, which work well for detecting patterns, automating simple tasks, generalizing responses and other data heavy tasks. As a subfield of computer science, machine learning evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence. Over time, machine learning has borrowed from many

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning | Programming Tips

Nelson GrajalesDecember 11, 2019 0

Machine Learning with SASPy: Exploring and Preparing your data - Part 3

Parts 1 and 2 of this blog post discussed exploring and preparing your data using SASPy. To recap, Part 1 discussed how to explore data using the SASPy interface with Python. Part 2 continued with an explanation of how to prepare your data to use it with a machine-learning model.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

Sophia RowlandDecember 4, 2019 0

SAS and R Integration for Machine Learning

SAS Viya is a cloud-enabled, in-memory analytics engine which allows for rapid analytics insights. Viya utilizes the SAS Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) to perform various actions and tasks. Best of all, CAS is accessible from various interfaces including R. In this blog, I will go through a few blocks one of my notebooks, which moves through an analytics workflow using R and SAS.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

Sophia RowlandNovember 21, 2019 0

Automated Machine Learning Pipelines

The dsAutoMl action is all that and a bag of chips! In this blog, we took over all aspects of the data science workflow using just one action.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | SAS Events

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunNovember 18, 2019 0

SAS 애널리틱스 익스피리언스 2019, 밀라노를 접수하다!

지난 10월 21일부터 23일까지 이탈리아 혁신 기술의 중심지 밀라노에서는 유럽 최대 규모의 분석 컨퍼런스 ‘SAS 애널리틱스 익스피리언스 2019(SAS Analytics Experience 2019)’가 개최됐습니다. 3일간 밀라노 컨벤션 센터(Mico Milano Convention Centre)에서 진행된 올해 컨퍼런스에는 1,800명이 넘는 데이터 사이언티스트와 비즈니스 리더들이 모여 다양한 논의가 진행되었으며, 참석자들에게는 56개의 breakout 세션, 48개의 데모 부스, 그

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Hidden Insights: Do you know what your customers are saying about you?

Vanessa HurhangeeNovember 12, 2019 0

Do you know what your customers are saying about you?

A major UK insurance company used text analytics to categorise complaints.

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Banking | Insurance

Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Patricia NeriNovember 11, 2019 0

Analyze tweets about global warming using Fact Autogeneration

Analyzing tweets is challenging because of their succinctness (max 280 characters). However, that task is facilitated by the powerful features of SAS Visual Text Analytics (VTA), which includes embedded machine learning algorithms.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

Sophia RowlandNovember 6, 2019 0

Everything But the Kitchen Sink Feature Generation

Are you looking for a Data Science easy button? The dataSciencePilot action set comes pretty close.

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Advanced Analytics

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

Brandon ReeseOctober 24, 2019 0

Batter-pitcher matchup analysis in the 2019 Major League Baseball playoffs

After a marathon of a season, 162 games in each team's schedule to be precise, the stakes for Major League Baseball are higher in October, and postseason play is underway. Whether it's the renewal of an old rivalry, redemption for last year's runners up, or rooting for this season's breakout

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Sports & Entertainment

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

Sophia RowlandOctober 23, 2019 0

An Easy Button for Data Science

Are you looking for a Data Science easy button? The Data Science Pilot Action Set comes pretty close.

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Advanced Analytics

Hidden Insights: “Please hold, your call is important to us” - Part 1

Vanessa HurhangeeOctober 22, 2019 0

'Please hold, your call is important to us'

Which measures financial services can take to keep their customers complaints at a minimum.

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Banking

Advanced Analytics

Chevell ParkerOctober 16, 2019 0

Creating a word cloud using Python and SAS® software

Generating a word cloud (also known as a tag cloud) is a good way to mine internet text. Word (or tag) clouds visually represent the occurrence of keywords found in internet data such as Twitter feeds.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Policías y ladrones: la inteligencia artificial contra el delito

Juan Sebastián NiñoOctober 10, 2019 0

Policías y ladrones: la inteligencia artificial contra el delito

Por Juan Sebastián Niño Customer Advisory Analytics SAS Colombia En Colombia, y probablemente en toda América Latina, existe un juego para niños llamado Policías y ladrones. Dentro del juego, un grupo de niños son los ladrones y el otro grupo son los policías. Mientras que los ladrones deben correr a

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Government

Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Hans BondeOctober 10, 2019 0

Forecast accuracy matters

In a recent video blog, I discuss forecast accuracy as a parameter for measuring the ability to forecast and plan demand. I further argue for the use of causal data as a key input to understanding historical demand and forecasting/planning future demand. Forecast accuracy is often claimed NOT to be

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Energy & Utilities | Manufacturing | Retail

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence | Internet of Things

Sandra HernandezOctober 7, 2019 0

Del Customer Experience al Fan Experience

Por Sandra Hernández *Post basado en la presentación de Wilson Raj en SAS Forum Colombia “No sé qué decir en realidad. Tres minutos para la mayor batalla de nuestras vidas. Todo se reduce a hoy: o nos jugamos como equipo o nos desmoronamos. Jugada a jugada, pulgada a pulgada hasta

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management

El valor real del uso de la analítica a nivel corporativo no está en la cantidad de datos almacenados, ni en la cantidad de modelos construidos. Ni siquiera está en la precisión de dichos modelos, al final del día, el valor reside en las decisiones que se toman a partir de del uso de estos modelos y en los resultados obtenidos para el negocio. (Javier Rengifo)

Javier Alexander RengifoOctober 4, 2019 0

Operacionalización de la Analítica: ¿cómo lograr que los modelos analíticos realmente apoyen el éxito de los negocios?

Por Javier Rengifo Gerente de Customer Advisory para SAS Colombia y Ecuador El éxito en el desarrollo e implementación de las iniciativas analíticas empresariales requiere que se tengan propósitos claros, una alineación con los objetivos del negocio, una adecuada captura y calidad de datos, una gestión y mejoramiento continuo de

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Communications | Government | Insurance | Retail

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