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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management

Rainer SterneckerDecember 21, 2017 0

Self-Service Data Preparation: Das Self steht für Value!

Data Preparation wird von Unternehmen bislang oft als Fleißaufgabe gesehen, die man gerne der IT überlässt. Doch weil die Fachabteilungen oftmals nicht lange auf ihre Daten warten wollen, haben dicke SQL-Bücher und Spreadsheet-Anwendungen immer noch Hochkonjunktur in den meisten Büros. Ist das sinnvoll? Nein, das ist nicht sinnvoll. Denn die

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Advanced Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunDecember 19, 2017 0

실시간 고객 참여, 고객 경험 관리의 필수 요소

포브스(Forbes) 글로벌 500대 기업 경영진의 대부분은 ‘경험’을 차세대 경쟁 요소로 꼽았습니다. 왜 그럴까요? 오늘날 디지털 중심의 옴니채널 세계에서 고객은 정보와 밀접하게 연결되어 있고, 정보를 적극적으로 이용하고 있으며, 그 이용 방법 또한 점점 더 정교해지고 있습니다. IT 분야의 세계적인 석학이자 MIT 미디어 연구소 설립자인 니콜라스 네그로폰테(Nicholas Negroponte)가 1998년에 발표한 성명에 단어 하나만

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

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Ilknur Kaynar Kabul

Ilknur Kaynar KabulDecember 18, 2017 0

Interpretability is crucial for trusting AI and machine learning

We have updated our software for improved interpretability since this post was written. For the latest on this topic, read our new series on model-agnostic interpretability. As machine learning takes its place in many recent advances in science and technology, the interpretability of machine learning models grows in importance. We

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Risk Management

Hartmut KömmeDecember 14, 2017 0

Was bringt die Zukunft? Auswertung von Risiko-Szenario-Pfaden

Die Abbildung einer möglichen zukünftigen Situation ist eine Kernaufgabe des Risiko-Managements. Dazu werden unterschiedlich komplexe Modelle mit möglichen Szenarien durchgerechnet. Hierbei erhält man pro Szenario und Vorhersage-Zeitpunkt ein Ergebnis. Bei mehrperiodischen Vorhersagen (z. B. bei Kredit-Portfolien oder Lebensversicherungen) gibt es pro Szenario einen Ergebnis-Pfad. Im Folgenden zeige ich, wie man mit

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Banking | Insurance

Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Carlos LaraDecember 12, 2017 0

PROC FREQ for Big Data

PROC FREQ is one of the most popular procedures in the SAS language. It is mostly used to describe frequency distribution of a variable or combination of variables in contingency tables. However, PROC FREQ has much more functionality than that. For an overview of all that it can do, see

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonDecember 6, 2017 0

An introduction to authorization in SAS Viya

Authorization determines what a user can see and do in an application. An authorization system is used to define access control policies, and those policies are later enforced so that access requests are granted or denied. To secure resources in SAS Viya there are three authorization systems of which you need to be aware. The General

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonDecember 6, 2017 0

LDAP basics for the SAS Viya administrator

ln SAS Viya, deployments identities are managed by the environments configured identity provider. In Visual SAS Viya deployments the identity provider must be an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server. Initial setup of a SAS Viya Deployment requires configuration to support reading the identity information (users and groups) from LDAP. SAS Viya 3.3

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Advanced Analytics | Internet of Things

SAS KoreaNovember 30, 2017 0

입자 필터를 이용한 치매 환자 사물인터넷(IoT) 데이터 분석

최근 국내 의료진이 정상적인 인지 기능을 가진 노인이 알츠하이머 치매에 걸릴 가능성을 예측할 수 있는 새로운 분석 지표를 개발해 큰 주목을 받았습니다. 세계적인 신경 과학 학술지 ‘사이언티픽 리포트(Scientific Reports)’에 소개되며 치매 발병에 대한 예방적 조치를 할 수 있을 것으로 기대를 모으고 있는데요. 많은 과학자들이 오늘날 초고령화 사회에서 가장 두려운 질병 중

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Juthika KharghariaNovember 28, 2017 0

Interacting with the results of PROC CAS

The CAS procedure (PROC CAS) enables us to interact with SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) from the SAS client based on the CASL (the scripting language of CAS) specification. CASL supports a variety of data types including INT, DOUBLE, STRING, TABLE, LIST, BLOB, and others. The result of a CAS

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Advanced Analytics | Learn SAS

Eric RosslandNovember 28, 2017 0

Learn more about SAS Viya with resources from SAS Education

SAS Viya is an exciting addition to the SAS Platform, allowing you to conduct analysis faster than ever before and providing you the flexibility to utilize open source technologies and generate insights from data in any computing environment. The blog post “Top 12 Advantages of SAS Viya” does a great

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management

Michael Herrmann

Michael HerrmannNovember 22, 2017 0

Pseudo-Anno-dazumal: Daten maskieren für Ihre DSGVO-Fitness (Teil 1)

Sie arbeiten mit Daten. Diese stammen vom Kunden. Vermutlich kann jener später indirekt identifiziert werden mit Ihren Daten. Ab Mai gilt neues Datenschutzrecht: Sie werden nachweisen müssen, welche „Maßnahmen der Technikgestaltung“ konkret getroffen wurden, um das zu verhindern. Knifflig, wobei eigentlich ist ja alles „pseudonymisiert“ oder „anonym“ oder so …

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Work & Life at SAS

Jos van DongenNovember 20, 2017 0

Dutch Data Science, part 3: Finaps

For the third installment of this series I visited Marlies van Sonsbeek (CEO) and Andrew Hagens (Chief Innovation Officer) of Finaps in their beautiful office in the south of Amsterdam. Company Overview Finaps is a young innovative company founded at the end of 2010 by two former ABN-Amro colleagues. Not

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Steven SoberNovember 20, 2017 0

How to Emulate PROC APPEND in CAS

SAS Viya provides a robust, scalable, cloud-ready, distributed runtime engine. This engine is driven by CAS (Cloud Analytic Services), providing fast processing for many data management techniques that run distributive, i.e. using all threads on all defined compute nodes. Note: SAS Viya 3.5+ now supports the data set option APPEND=YES.

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management

Stephen FoersterNovember 20, 2017 0

Understanding DNFS

Many SAS users have inquired about SAS Cloud Analytic Services’ (CAS) Distributed Network File System (DNFS) of late, so let’s look at it further in this blog post. (Learn more about CAS.) The “NFS” in “DNFS” Let’s start at the beginning. The “NFS” in DNFS stands for “Network File System”

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization

Imre PólikNovember 16, 2017 0

Optimizing your way in the woods -- Orienteering for real

When I shared a status update a few months ago that I would spend my Sunday morning "trying to solve an asymmetric prize-collecting traveling salesman problem with uncertain data and side constraints" my colleagues knew that I wouldn't be working. Instead, I would spend my morning at an orienteering event,

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Advanced Analytics

Uttam KumarNovember 15, 2017 0

Concurrent data append and update to a global CAS table

As a SAS Viya user, you may be wondering whether it is possible to execute data append and data update concurrently to a global Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) table from two or more CAS sessions. (Learn more about CAS.) How would this impact the report view while data append or

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

GastbeitragNovember 15, 2017 0

Paradise found not only on papers: Berühmte Reisebloggerin findet Paradies mit dem SAS Konfigurator

Frau Beck, was spuckt denn http://www.paradies-konfigurator.de/ als Ihr „analytisches Paradies“ aus? Bei mir kommt Paddington in Australien heraus. Und was sagen Sie dazu? Waren Sie vielleicht schon mal da? Lustigerweise habe ich nach meinem Studium 11 Monate in Australien gelebt und gearbeitet. Eine der schönsten Zeiten in meinem bisherigen Leben.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Christian GoßlerNovember 8, 2017 0

Lenin und der Rote Rapper im Internet of Ticks (IoT5)

„… Internet, Internet, ich hör‘ hier immer Internet. Sag’n Se‘ ma‘, ganz richtig ist das nicht!“ Der Service-Manager errötet nach seinem Rap. Lenin schwankt zwischen Belustigung und bolschewistischem Ingrimm: Stellt der Rote Rapper seine Erfolge im Internet of Things infrage? Der Rapper fährt fort: „Denn diese Daten, die Sie verbraten,

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Thomas Bodenmüller-DodekNovember 6, 2017 0

Ein Duett mit Zukunft

Something Stupid – eines der berühmtesten musikalischen Duette von Frank Sinatra und seiner Tochter Nancy kennt wahrscheinlich jeder. Ein anderes Duett hat sich in den letzten Jahren im Datenanalyse-Umfeld zusammengetan – Business Intelligence und Advanced Analytics. Ob das „something stupid“ oder doch eine ganz smarte Idee ist, wird in diesem

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Advanced Analytics | Data for Good | Internet of Things

Larry OrimoloyeNovember 3, 2017 0

Scaling Internet of Things for dementia using particle filters

Dementia describes different brain disorders that trigger a loss of brain function. These conditions are all usually progressive and eventually severe. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia, affecting 62 percent of those diagnosed. Other types of dementia include; vascular dementia affecting 17 percent of those diagnosed, mixed

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Administrators

David SternNovember 1, 2017 0

Creating and uploading custom icons and map pin icons in SAS® Visual Investigator

SAS Visual Investigator has an attractive user interface. One of its most engaging features is the network diagram, which represents related ‘entities’ and the connections between them, allowing an investigator to see and explore relationships in their source data. For maximum impact, each entity in the network diagram should have an

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Ryan LolliOctober 26, 2017 0

Tip and tricks to promote CAS tables from session-scope to global-scope

When loading data into CAS using PROC CASUTIL, you have two choices on how the table can be loaded: session-scope or global-scope. This is controlled by the PROMOTE option in the PROC CASUTIL statement. Session-scope loaded proc casutil; load casdata="model_table.sas7bdat" incaslib="ryloll" outcaslib="otcaslib" casout="model_table”; run; Global-scope loaded proc casutil; load casdata="model_table.sas7bdat"

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

SAS KoreaOctober 25, 2017 0

데이터 과학자가 뽑은 "머신러닝 알고리즘 개발 베스트 프랙티스 3탄"

현존 최고의 데이터 과학자들이 뽑은 머신러닝 알고리즘 개발 베스트 프랙티스! 그 대망의 마지막 시간입니다. 이전 블로그를 통해 다양한 유형의 모델을 결합하는 방법을 소개해드렸다면, 오늘은 다양한 유형의 데이터를 결합하고, 모델의 다양한 변수를 활용하는 방법에 대해 이야기하고자 합니다. 이전 시리즈를 놓치셨나요? 블로그 1탄, 블로그 2탄을 참고해주세요. 기본기 다지기 희귀한 이벤트 탐지하기 수많은 모델 결합하기 모델

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Phil WeissOctober 20, 2017 0

Top 12 Advantages of SAS Viya

There are many compelling reasons existing SAS users might want to start integrating SAS Viya into their SAS9 programs and applications. For me, it comes down to ease-of-use, speed, and faster time-to-value. With the ability to traverse the (necessarily iterative) analytics lifecycle faster than before, we are now able to generate

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

Künstliche Intelligenz

Andreas BecksOctober 19, 2017 0

Künstliche Intelligenz in der Versicherung: Wo steht Europa?

Wo steht eigentlich die europäische Versicherungswirtschaft in puncto Advanced Analytics, KI und Automatisierung? Erleben wir, dass gerade auch in der Assekuranz traditionelle Verfahren der Datenanalyse mit dem Begriff „maschinelles Lernen" überklebt werden? Oder ist die Branche hier schon deutlich weiter? Sind beispielsweise echte Chatbots wirklich schon allgegenwärtig? Aktuelle Einblicke gibt

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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

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 | Customer Intelligence

SAS KoreaOctober 12, 2017 0

알고리즘 기반의 분석적 마케팅 기여도(Algorithmic Marketing Attribution) 측정을 통한 360도 마케팅 인사이트

모바일 퍼스트(Mobile First)를 넘어선 모바일 온리(Mobile only) 시대입니다. 스마트폰이나 태블릿 PC로 언제 어디서나 온라인 쇼핑몰, 모바일 앱, 소셜 미디어 등 다양한 플랫폼을 통해 정보를 검색, 공유하고 제품을 구매할 수 있죠. 이처럼 기업이 고객과 만나는 접점은 그 어느 때보다 다양해지고 있으며, 그만큼 고객의 요구와 기대의 변화에 귀를 기울이고 재빠르게 대응해야 할 필요성이

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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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