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Advanced Analytics | Data Management

Nicolas RobertOctober 18, 2017 0

SAS Viya 3.2 Bridge for SAS Data Integration Studio 4.902 (on SAS 9.4M4) configuration steps

The goal of this article is to describe the steps needed to configure the bridge that allows SAS Data Integration 4.902, based on SAS 9.4M4, to load data directly into CAS on SAS Viya 3.2. Of course, SAS 9.4M5 simplifies this process, as a SAS/CONNECT communication will no longer be required, enabled

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Xin HuntOctober 17, 2017 0

Online learning: Machine learning’s secret for big data

In the field of machine learning, online learning refers to the collection of machine learning methods that learn from a sequence of data provided over time. In online learning, models update continuously as each data point arrives. You often hear online learning described as analyzing “data in motion,” because it

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Vivian JonesOctober 17, 2017 0

“Data Science” ¿Podemos seguir llamándola la profesión más sexy?

Muchas personas pensarían que, al hablar de la profesión más sexy, se haría alusión quizás a un cantante o actor de Hollywood, pero lo cierto en esta nueva era digital y según un artículo publicado en el 2012 en la revista de la prestigiosa Universidad de Harvard, es que la

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Advanced Analytics | Risk Management

Vijayne Govender

Vijayne GovenderOctober 17, 2017 0

How Nigeria is accelerating its banking industry transformation

The challenges for banking in emerging markets are similar to those elsewhere, but with fewer resources and structures available to address them. Key issues include expanding the market, and improving financial inclusion, to provide better access to banking services. To my mind, one of the most interesting aspects of the

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management | Machine Learning

Josefin RosénOctober 16, 2017 0

What every business manager should know about algorithm audits

Algorithm audit is a growing area as companies increasingly rely on machine learning algorithms to make decisions. But what do business managers need to know about these audits? We have a responsibility to audit our algorithms Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have an increasingly central role in decision making in our

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Ed HughesOctober 16, 2017 0

SAS at the 2017 INFORMS Annual Meeting

SAS will be represented by more than 20 attendees at the INFORMS Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center (GBCC) in Houston, Texas. Officially the conference runs from Sunday, Oct. 22 through Wednesday, Oct. 25, but our activities in Houston start even earlier. Technology Workshops on Saturday, October

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Advanced Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Kelci MiclausOctober 9, 2017 0

The Traveling Salesman Traverses the Plant Genome

I sit here fascinated, watching a world population clock. According to the US Census, a baby is born and a person dies every 7 and 12 seconds, respectively, in the United States. In 1950 our world had about 2.5 billion people; currently our population is over 7.3 billion. Estimates predict

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Analítica omnnicanal

Vivian JonesOctober 3, 2017 0

Analítica: la base de una banca más sólida e innovadora. El caso colombiano, un ejemplo

Los bancos colombianos han entendido que la transformación digital es una prioridad para su industria, sobre todo porque ya no solo están disputándose el mercado con los actores tradicionales sino que han empezado a cruzarse con las Fintech, las diferentes startups que han empezado a ofrecer nuevos servicios financieros basados

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Vivian JonesOctober 2, 2017 0

¿Cómo se beneficia el consumidor final del Big Data?

Las herramientas convencionales para el desarrollo de estrategias de marketing ya no son los suficientemente capaces de analizar en profundidad y al detalle todos los datos que son generados a diario por los consumidores. Es por esta razón que la analítica avanzada es una de las mejores aliadas para las

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Banking | Communications | Retail

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | SAS Events

Larry LaRussoSeptember 27, 2017 0

SAS Viya: What’s in it for me? The user.

If you’re in the field of analytics, you’ve undoubtedly heard about SAS Viya. Designed for all analytic professionals, regardless of skills or experience, SAS Viya seamlessly handles big, complex, diverse data. It also supports any programming language, allowing analysts to choose the tool that makes them most productive. Recently a colleague

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Charlie ChaseSeptember 27, 2017 0

Is demand sensing and shaping a key component of your company’s digital supply chain transformation?

Depending on who you speak with you will get varying definitions and opinions regarding demand sensing and shaping from sensing short-range replenishment based on sales orders to manual blending of point-of-sales (POS) data and shipments. Most companies think that they are sensing demand when in fact they are

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

La analítica en un nuevo nivel

Sandra HernandezSeptember 26, 2017 0

La analítica en un nuevo nivel

Es una realidad. Según IDC el mercado mundial de Big Data Analytics está creciendo a un ritmo de 23,1 % cada año y llegará a casi 50 mil millones de dólares en el 2019. En la región latinoamericana la cultura analítica ya ha permeado de manera importante industrias como la

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Suneel GroverSeptember 26, 2017 0

Algorithmic marketing attribution and conversion journey analysis [Part 3]

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog posting series, we discussed: Our current viewpoints on marketing attribution and conversion journey analysis in 2017. The selection criteria of the best measurement approach. Introduced our vision on handling marketing attribution and conversion journey analysis. We would like to conclude this

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Xin HuntSeptember 25, 2017 0

Machine learning concepts: styles of machine learning

This is the first in a series of posts about machine learning concepts, where we'll cover everything from learning styles to new dimensions in machine learning research. What makes machine learning so successful? The answer lies in the core concept of machine learning: a machine can learn from examples and

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Thomas Bodenmüller-DodekSeptember 25, 2017 0

Blogparade: MyParadise Found – Finden Sie Ihr persönliches Paradies!

Blogparade startet: Vor Kurzem wurde ja bereits der analytisch beste Ort der Welt gefunden und gekürt. Dazu hat SAS aus fast 150.000 Orten in rund 200 Ländern jede Menge Daten gesammelt und mit modernsten Machine-Learning-Verfahren ausgewertet. Rund 100 sogenannte Prädiktoren, also mögliche Einflussgrößen auf „paradiesische“ Verhältnisse, spuckten West Perth aus

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Mari Nilsson BjörkmanSeptember 22, 2017 0

Data-Driven Business Model discussions are in the spotlight – what is new?

The digital transformation wave is growing huge across the whole society and all industries, boosted by the data tsunami created by all of us. Using analytics to find actionable insights in all this data for business success is not new anymore but the digital transformation has put the spotlight on

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management

Analítica, el factor estrella en la ecuación de transformación del negocio bancario

Vivian JonesSeptember 21, 2017 0

Analítica, el factor estrella en la ecuación de transformación del negocio bancario

Caminar por la calle y que su celular le dé una notificación de alguna promoción especial de ese almacén que le gusta, que está solo a algunos pasos de usted y en el que utilizando la tarjeta de crédito de su banco puede comprar a cero interés, no es un

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Machine Learning

Jos van DongenSeptember 21, 2017 0

Dutch Data Science, part 2: Veneficus

The second part of this series takes us to Rotterdam, main port of Europe and the residence of Veneficus, a 10-year young and ambitious boutique analytics firm. They have already scored accolades in the Dutch FD Gazellen Award for fast growing companies. In addition, they also won a ‘Best Employer’

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Advanced Analytics

Kevin MazilleSeptember 20, 2017 0

Ten talking points on chatbots - design, deployment and use

At the recent SAS Forum in Paris, I was part of the team that demonstrated the contextual value of chatbots. Our discussions during preparation and questions after the demo were wide-ranging and extremely interesting. It would be hard to claim that there was a real thread running through it, perhaps

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Internet of Things

Peter Pugh-JonesSeptember 19, 2017 0

Fishing in the stream with Artificial Intelligence

Imagine you’re a hungry black bear and you’re standing in a fast-moving river up in the Rocky Mountains. You peer down into the water as it swirls and bubbles past your legs. You know there are fish in there somewhere, and over the years you have seen all kinds of

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Machine Learning

Malcolm Lightbody

Malcolm LightbodySeptember 19, 2017 0

Algorithmic marketing attribution and conversion journey analysis [Part 2]

In Part 1 of this blog posting series, we discussed our current viewpoints on marketing attribution and conversion journey analysis in 2017. We concluded on a cliffhanger, and would like to return to our question of which attribution measurement method should we ultimately focus on. As with all difficult questions

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Advanced Analytics

Kristoffer Nilsson

Kristoffer NilssonSeptember 18, 2017 0

A platform architecture for the AI analytics lifecycle

Creating an architecture to support AI is about creating a modern platform for advanced analytics, and means being able to support all steps of the analytics lifecycle. Requirements An architecture for advanced analytics/artificial intelligence need to cover three main domains, data, discovery and deployment. Data Data is the foundation of

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Wayne ThompsonSeptember 18, 2017 0

Is deep learning the latest fad?

In my 25 years at SAS, I‘ve noticed the continued use of important algorithms, such as logistic regression and decision trees, which I’m sure will continue to be steady staples for data scientists. After all, they’re easy-to-use, interpretable algorithms. However, they’re not always the most accurate and stable classifiers. To

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Carl-Olow Magnusson

Carl-Olow MagnussonSeptember 13, 2017 0

Business intelligence, business users and agility

I’m a bit of a data nerd, and especially a data visualisation nerd. I love graphs and charts, but not for their own sake. What I love about them is the way that a single picture can show so many different things, and often provide new business insights into data.

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Advanced Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Machine Learning

Suneel GroverSeptember 13, 2017 0

Algorithmic marketing attribution and conversion journey analysis [Part 1]

Everyone has a marketing attribution problem, and all attribution measurement methods are wrong. We hear that all the time. Like many urban myths, it is founded in truth. Most organizations believe they can do better on attribution. They all understand that there are gaps, for example, missing touchpoint data, multiple

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Event Stream Processing IoT

Cornelius KimmerSeptember 13, 2017 0

Edge Analytics - So kommt Analytics in den Truck (Teil 3) HEUTE: Konfiguration der Software

ODER: Wie erstelle ich ein Edge Analytics Case auf Basis von SAS ESP, SAS Streamviewer und eines Modelltrucks? Das beschreibe ich in Teil 3. Rückblick: Im ersten Teil wurden die Idee und der Inhalt der SAS Streaming-Analytics-Demo beschrieben. Im zweiten Teil sind die einzelnen technischen Komponenten sowie die Software aufgelistet. Im

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Advanced Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Simulate clustered data from a Gaussian mixture distribution

Rick WicklinSeptember 13, 2017 0

Simulate multivariate clusters in SAS

This article shows how to simulate data from a mixture of multivariate normal distributions, which is also called a Gaussian mixture. You can use this simulation to generate clustered data. The adjacent graph shows three clusters, each simulated from a four-dimensional normal distribution. Each cluster has its own within-cluster covariance,

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Wayne ThompsonSeptember 12, 2017 0

Machine learning best practices: Add features to training data

This is the final post in my series of machine learning best practices. If you missed the earlier posts, start at the beginning, or read the whole series by clicking on the image to the right. While post four in the series was about combining different types of models, this

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

GastbeiträgeSeptember 11, 2017 0

6 Gründe warum für Reisebloggerin Kerstin Beck das australische Perth das Paradies ist

Haben Sie sich schon einmal gefragt, wo das Paradies liegt? Wo sich der Ort mit der größten Lebensqualität der Welt befindet? Auf Reisen entdecken wir ab und zu Orte, von denen wir denken, dass sie dem Paradies sehr nahe kommen. Aber ob sich diese Wahrnehmung auch ohne rosarote Urlaubsbrille mit

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Internet of Things

Samuel Blanquet

Samuel BlanquetSeptember 7, 2017 0

The factory of the future is not a low-cost proof-of-concept — but proof-of concept is possible

Manufacturers are not like Steve Jobs. He famously didn’t worry about market research when developing the iPod, merely assuming — some would say arrogantly — that the product was so good that everyone would buy it. He was right, but few would have his confidence. Manufacturers, by contrast, tend to

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