Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | 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 | Analytics | Data Management

Sandra HernandezSeptember 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 | Artificial Intelligence | 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 | Internet of Things

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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Manufacturing

Advanced Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

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

GastbeitragSeptember 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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Wayne ThompsonSeptember 5, 2017 0

Machine learning best practices: Understanding generalization

This is the seventh post in my series of machine best practices. Catch up by reading the first post or the whole series now. Generalization is the learned model’s ability to fit well to new, unseen data instead of the data it was trained on. Overfitting refers to a model that fits

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence | Machine Learning

Jos van DongenSeptember 4, 2017 0

Dutch Data Science, part 1: GoDataDriven

From June 6 to 9 the first ever ‘Dutch Data Science Week’ took place in the Netherlands. The week consisted of 4 days in which 28 events took place in 6 different locations. During the week people could attend classes ranging from beginner to advanced levels, visit meetups, participate in

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Makoto Unemi (畝見 真)September 4, 2017 0

SAS Viyaで線形回帰

SAS Viyaで線形回帰を行う方法を紹介します。 言語はPythonを使います。 SAS Viyaで線形回帰を行う方法には大きく以下の手法が用意されています。 多項回帰：　simpleアクションセットで提供。 一般化線形回帰または一般線形回帰：　regressionアクションセットで提供。 機械学習で回帰：　各種機械学習用のアクションセットで提供。 今回は単純なサインカーブを利用して、上記3種類の回帰モデルを作ってみます。   【サインカーブ】 -4≦x<4の範囲でサインカーブを作ります。 普通に $$y = sin(x) $$を算出しても面白みがないので、乱数を加減して以下のようなデータを作りました。これをトレーニングデータとします。 青い点線が $$y=sin(x)$$ の曲線、グレーの円は $$y=sin(x)$$ に乱数を加減したプロットです。 グレーのプロットの中心を青い点線が通っていることがわかります。 今回はグレーのプロットをトレーニングデータとして線形回帰を行います。グレーのプロットはだいぶ散らばって見えますが、回帰モデルとしては青い点線のように中心を通った曲線が描けるはずです。 トレーニングデータのデータセット名は "sinx" とします。説明変数は "x"、ターゲット変数は "y" になります。 各手法で生成したモデルで回帰を行うため、-4≦x<4 の範囲で0.01刻みで"x" の値をとった "rangex" というデータセットも用意します。 まずはCASセッションを生成し、それぞれのデータをCASにアップロードします。 import swat host = "localhost" port = 5570 user = "cas" password = "p@ssw0rd"

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SAS KoreaSeptember 4, 2017 0

무료 플레이 게임 ‘월드 오브 탱크(World of Tanks)’ 분석으로 수십억 달러를 창출하다!

매일 전 세계 수백만 플레이어들이 가상의 전투에서 서로의 탱크를 무찌르기 위해 ‘월드 오브 탱크(World of Tanks)’에 접속합니다. 국내에서도 큰 인기를 끌고 있는 월드 오브 탱크는 벨라루스 게임 개발사인 워게이밍(Wargaming)의 온라인 MMO(대규모 다중 사용자) 슈팅 게임인데요. 등록된 온라인 사용자만 무려 1억1,000만명이 넘습니다. 워게이밍은 목표는 모든 레벨의 플레이어에게 멋진 경험을 제공하는 것으로, 부분 유료(free-to-play)

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Rick WicklinAugust 30, 2017 0

The singular value decomposition and low-rank approximations

A previous article discussed the mathematical properties of the singular value decomposition (SVD) and showed how to use the SVD subroutine in SAS/IML software. This article uses the SVD to construct a low-rank approximation to an image. Applications include image compression and denoising an image. Construct a grayscale image The

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Advanced Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Machine Learning

Maarten OostenAugust 30, 2017 0

Bots, collusion and accountability in pricing

In the recent article, “Price-bots can collude against consumers,” the Economist discusses the consumer effects of prices set by price-bots. The article starts with an example of gasoline pricing strategies on Martha’s Vineyard. With a small number of gas stations on the island, the price-bots can cover all competitor prices frequently

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Energy & Utilities | Hospitality | Manufacturing | Retail

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Rick WicklinAugust 28, 2017 0

The singular value decomposition: A fundamental technique in multivariate data analysis

The singular value decomposition (SVD) could be called the "billion-dollar algorithm" since it provides the mathematical basis for many modern algorithms in data science, including text mining, recommender systems (think Netflix and Amazon), image processing, and classification problems. Although the SVD was mathematically discovered in the late 1800s, computers have

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Wayne ThompsonAugust 25, 2017 0

Machine learning best practices: Manage the temporal effect

This is the sixth post in my series of machine learning best practices. If you've come across the series for the first time, you can go back to the beginning or read the whole series. Aristotle was likely one of the first data scientists who studied empiricism by learning through

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Thomas Bodenmüller-DodekAugust 23, 2017 0

SAS Visual Analytics: Hallo Emilia – Goodbye Daniel

Die Geburtenrate in Deutschland befindet sich derzeit auf dem höchsten Niveau seit 33 Jahren. Eine erfreuliche Entwicklung, und zugleich stellt es Eltern vor die schwere Entscheidung, welchen Namen der Nachwuchs tragen soll. Zahlreiche Webseiten und Bücher bieten Hitlisten und Namensbeschreibungen an, um die Auswahl zu erleichtern. Oder sollte man das

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SAS KoreaAugust 22, 2017 0

최적의 ‘머신러닝 알고리즘’을 고르기 위한 치트키

“어떤 알고리즘을 사용해야 할까요?” 수많은 종류의 머신러닝 알고리즘을 맞닥뜨린 초급자 분들이 가장 많이 물어보는 전형적인 질문인데요. 사실 이 질문에 대한 답변은 하단 내용을 비롯한 수많은 요인에 따라 달라집니다. 데이터의 크기, 품질, 특성 가용 연산(계산) 시간 작업의 긴급성 데이터를 이용해 하고 싶은 것 그렇기에 숙련된 데이터 과학자(Data scientist)조차도 여러 알고리즘을 직접

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management

Mary Kathryn QueenAugust 16, 2017 0

Load Data into SAS Viya via REST API

In this blog post I am going to cover the example of importing data into SAS Viya using Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) actions via REST API. For example, you may want to import data into a CASLib via REST API.  This means you can perform an import of data outside

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management | Machine Learning

Charlie ChaseAugust 16, 2017 0

At the end of the day, it’s all about analytics-driven forecasting

Analytics-driven forecasting means more than measuring trend and seasonality. It includes all categories of methods (e.g. exponential smoothing, dynamic regression, ARIMA, ARIMA(X), unobserved component models, and more), including artificial intelligence, but not necessarily deep learning algorithms. That said, deep learning algorithms like neural networks can also be used for demand forecasting,

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Manufacturing | Retail

Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 10, 2017 0

So, 27 US states are farther north than Canada, eh?

With all the recent talk about some people wanting to move from the US to Canada, I got to wondering how cold, and how far north Canada is. And after a few Google searches, I was surprised to learn that 27 US states are actually farther north than the southernmost point

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Government | Travel

Advanced Analytics | Learn SAS

Kattamuri SarmaAugust 10, 2017 0

3 steps to prepare your data for accurate predictive models in SAS Enterprise Miner

In this post I describe the important tasks of data preparation, exploration and binning.These three steps enable you to know your data well and build accurate predictive models. First you need to clean your data. Cleaning includes eliminating variables which have uneven spread across the target variable. I give an

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Wayne ThompsonAugust 10, 2017 0

Machine learning best practices: Autotune models to avoid local minimum breakdowns

This is the fifth post in my series of machine learning best practices.  Hyperparameters are the algorithm options one "turns and tunes" when building a learning model.  Hyperparameters cannot be learned using that algorithm. So, these parameters need to be assigned before training of the model.  A lot of manual

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SAS KoreaAugust 9, 2017 0

데이터 과학자가 뽑은 "머신러닝 알고리즘 개발 베스트 프랙티스 1탄"

1980년대 후반에만 해도 머신러닝(machine learning)이나 데이터 과학자와 같은 개념은 없었습니다. 대신 통계, 분석, 데이터 마이닝, 데이터 모델링과 같은 단어가 사용됐는데요. 이후 글로벌 기업들은 30년 이상 머신러닝 모델을 연구해 왔으며, 페이스북의 이미지 인식 소프트웨어, 아마존의 음성 비서 알렉사, KT의 인공지능 서비스 기가 지니(GiGA Genie)까지 그 결과들이 연이어 쏟아지고 있죠! 이러한 결실

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Korean

Advanced Analytics

Rick WicklinAugust 9, 2017 0

Robust principal component analysis in SAS

Recently, I was asked whether SAS can perform a principal component analysis (PCA) that is robust to the presence of outliers in the data. A PCA requires a data matrix, an estimate for the center of the data, and an estimate for the variance/covariance of the variables. Classically, these estimates

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Advanced Analytics

Fiona McNeillAugust 4, 2017 0

Try it - you'll like it...

It's a common mantra many parents use to encourage their children to expand their food choices and try something new. Even as adults we’re often more comfortable easing into the unfamiliar, taking small bites, tiny samples, even dipping a toe in the water before diving in headfirst. Software is no

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Wayne ThompsonAugust 3, 2017 0

Machine learning best practices: Put your models to work

This is the fourth post in my series of 10 machine learning best practices. It’s common to build models on historical training data and then apply the model to new data to make decisions. This process is called model deployment or scoring. I often hear data scientists say, “It took

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Wayne ThompsonJuly 25, 2017 0

Machine learning best practices: combining lots of models

This is the third post in my series of machine learning techniques and best practices. If you missed the earlier posts, read the first one now, or review the whole machine learning best practices series.   Data scientists commonly use machine learning algorithms, such as gradient boosting and decision forests, that automatically build

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonJuly 25, 2017 0

23 MSAs account for 1/2 of US GDP!

When it comes to economic activity, a handful of the largest metropolitan areas in the US account for lion's share. In 2013, the top 23 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) accounted for 50% of the total US Gross Domestic Product (GDP). I recently came across a map created by Alexandr Trubetskoy

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Government

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Risk Management

Hartmut KömmeJuly 20, 2017 0

Neue Prozess-Infrastruktur für die Renaissance des Datasteps

Wenn es darum geht, mit Daten zu arbeiten, dann ist der klassische SAS Datastep eines der wirksamsten Werkzeuge, das uns zur Verfügung steht. Es ist sehr einfach, mithilfe von Datenauswahl, Formeln und Bedingungen im Datastep sowie in spezifischen SAS Prozeduren zu Ergebnissen zu kommen. Hieraus sind in der Praxis umfangreiche

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Banking | Insurance

Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Wayne ThompsonJuly 19, 2017 0

Machine learning best practices: detecting rare events

This is the second post in my series of machine learning best practices. If you missed it, read the first post, Machine learning best practices: the basics. As we go along, all ten tips will be archived at this machine learning best practices page. Machine learning commonly requires the use of

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