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Nabaruna KarmakarMarch 11, 2020 0

SAS® Optimization Web App Using REST APIs with Embedded SAS® Visual Analytics Reports

Mathematical optimization can help business leaders make better decisions in every aspect of their business. After a model has been built, end users are usually interested in doing some sort of scenario analysis to test its robustness and visualizing key performance metrics. SAS has various products that can work with

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinMarch 9, 2020 0

ROC curves for a binormal sample

In a previous article, I discussed the binormal model for a binary classification problem. This model assumes a set of scores that are normally distributed for each population, and the mean of the scores for the Negative population is less than the mean of scores for the Positive population. I

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Marzena HubickaMarch 6, 2020 0

Women ROCK in analytics!

I caught up with Jaimy van Dijk, one of our youngest female SAS Data Scientists who has proven herself to be a true Rockstar.

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Advanced Analytics | Learn SAS | Machine Learning | Programming Tips

Suzanne MorgenMarch 5, 2020 0

Learn about new data mining and machine learning procedures in SAS Viya

Have you heard that SAS offers a collection of new, high-performance CAS procedures that are compatible with a multi-threaded approach? The free e-book Exploring SAS® Viya®: Data Mining and Machine Learning is a great resource to learn more about these procedures and the features of SAS® Visual Data Mining and

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Advanced Analytics

Beth EbersoleMarch 4, 2020 0

Create an ASTORE Using SAS Enterprise Miner

Did you know that you can use SAS Enterprise Miner 15.1 to easily create an ASTORE? You can create an ASTORE from an HP SVM node, an HP FOREST node, and also from some SAS Viya Code Nodes! This blog will show you how.

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management

Jim HarrisFebruary 27, 2020 0

Why Ops-ing is in (DevOps, ModelOps, DataOps)

Jim Harris explains the relevance of DevOps, DataOps and ModelOps for data analytics practitioners.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Charlie ChaseFebruary 26, 2020 0

Are you suffering from demand planner spreadsheet overload?

  Is it getting harder and harder to find empty Excel spreadsheets cells, as you run out of columns and rows? Do your spreadsheet cell labels have more letters than the license plate on your car? Do you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night in cold

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Government | Manufacturing | Retail

Advanced Analytics

Tamara FischerFebruary 19, 2020 0

Introducing the feature contribution index for model assessment

Most model assessment metrics, such as Lift, AUC, KS, ASE, require the presence of the target/label to be in the data. This is always the case at the time of model training. But how can I ensure that the developed model can be applied to new data for prediction?

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Advanced Analytics

Hans-Joachim EdertFebruary 19, 2020 0

Creating a model validation pipeline

This post describes a fully automated validation pipeline for analytical models as part of an analytical platform, which has been set up recently as part of a customer project.

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Hans-Joachim EdertFebruary 19, 2020 0

Model validation testing in the age of DevOps

Let us now take a look at a well-known metaphor for test case development in the software industry. We are referring to the idea of the “test pyramid."

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Advanced Analytics

Hans-Joachim EdertFebruary 19, 2020 0

A structured approach to model validation

In total, there are four posts in this blog series, this is the first post describing some basic principles of the DevOps (or ModelOps) approach.

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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 | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunJanuary 30, 2020 0

SAS, 전 세계 AI 소프트웨어 플랫폼 부문 리더 선정

올해 1월 IDC에서 발표한 ‘IDC 마켓스케이프: 2019-2020년 전 세계 범용 인공지능 소프트웨어 플랫폼 벤더 평가(IDC MarketScape: Worldwide General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Software Platforms 2019–2020 Vendor Assessment)’ 보고서에서 SAS가 리더로 선정되었습니다🙌🙌 IDC에서 인공지능(AI) 플랫폼 공급업체들을 평가한 것은 이번이 처음이었는데요. IDC 마켓스케이프 보고서는 수익 및 시장성을 비롯해 기업별 AI 전략 및 기능에 대한

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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

SAS ColombiaDecember 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

Andrea DeinertDecember 13, 2019 0

verMERCKt als WICHTIG - AI #1

Gespräch mit Helmut Linde von Merck über seine Meetup-Ambitionen. Helmut ist ein begehrter Gastredner in der Data Science Szene Rhein-Main.

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Life Sciences

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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