Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Mads KroghMay 15, 2018 0

Advanced analytics increases the efficiency of tax administrations

Tax administrations are under pressure like never before. Digitisation, both in the public sector and in society in general, is completely changing how data is moving around – for better and worse. It's not really a viable solution to just allocate more employees to manual tax inspections. Advanced analytics is

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Government

Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Caroline HermonMay 14, 2018 0

The key to increase effectiveness of organisations using data

I get asked a lot of questions by customers at all levels. They all want to know how to solve their problems, and it is part of my role to help them find answers. The range of questions is extremely broad. Data scientists want to know how they can improve

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Advanced Analytics

Morten Krogh DanielsenMay 9, 2018 0

Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels

The use of antibiotics is growing rapidly. Excessive or inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics and lack of follow-up on treatments results in antimicrobial resistance. The antimicrobials become resistant, and therefore they do not act on antibiotics as expected. This makes treatment ineffective, and already now 20-50 percent of all antibiotic prescriptions

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Health Care

Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Management | Machine Learning

John SpoonerMay 8, 2018 0

Paradise lost and found: how AI and analytics found the UK’s best place

You may never have heard of it, but the small, West Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge is the UK’s best place to live. Whenever a value judgement like this is made it’s easy to dismiss it as subjective. Surely the UK’s ‘best’ place is down to preference and will be

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Aneshan RamalooMay 7, 2018 0

Artificial intelligence and changing analytics

In my last post, I talked to Prenton Chetty, Head of Analytics at Nedbank, about the impact of analytics on the business, and how modelling has changed the conversation and improved decision making. This post continues our discussion, and explores Prenton’s views on how data science is changing with AI,

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanMay 7, 2018 0

SAS tools for GDPR privacy compliant reporting

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) taking effect on 25 May 2018 pertains not only to organizations located within the EU; it applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location. Here are four selected SAS tools for GDPR that allow you to protect personal data in SAS reports by suppressing counts in small demographic group reports.

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Reece CliffordMay 4, 2018 0

How analytics is shaping the world of sport

In the following 2012 season, NBA teams shot an average of 18.4 three-point shots per game, which had risen by four shots per game since the 2001-02 season. Just five years later, this number rose by 8.6 attempts per game, to an average of 27 attempts in 2017. But what caused this increase?

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Sports & Entertainment

Advanced Analytics

Aneshan RamalooMay 3, 2018 0

How data science revamps the way we do business

Innovation labs remain an important way of introducing both innovation and analytics to business, especially as artificial intelligence becomes more important. I caught up with Prenton Chetty, Head of Analytics at Nedbank, to discuss how he sees his role changing in the future. Tell us about your current role at

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Philip ReschkeMay 3, 2018 0

Is the AI ethics discussion really about cultural change?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to have a dramatic impact on our professional and personal lives. The big question is how and when. I think both those depend, at least in part, on how we (that is, people in general) respond to the technology as it develops. There are significant

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Falko SchulzApril 26, 2018 0

Analyze ticket sales using location analytics and customer segmentation in SAS® Visual Analytics

Analyzing ticket sales and customer data for large sports and entertainment events is a complex endeavor. But SAS Visual Analytics makes it easy, with location analytics, customer segmentation, predictive artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities – and more. This blog post covers a brief overview of these features by using a fictitious event company

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Advanced Analytics | Students & Educators

Jaimy van DijkApril 26, 2018 0

Data science education: matching up expectations and reality

The SAS Data Science and Advanced Analytics Forum brings together businesses and universities, and at a recent event, universities described courses that focused on providing students with technical skills and competencies to handle data, together with some understanding of how data scientists use software. Businesses, however, emphasised the importance of

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Lasse SkydstofteApril 25, 2018 0

Minority Report risk-based monitoring: Find the hidden potential

Most of us have probably seen Steven Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi movie Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise. In an “absurd” future society, a special police unit hunts future criminals before they commit their crimes and the illegal activity takes place. The police use sci-fi tools, such as “pre-visualisation,” to stop the lawbreakers

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Government

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Lars VejlgaardApril 23, 2018 0

How to improve the health care sector

Every day, managers in the health care sector are challenged with demands from politicians and influencers to find new ways to improve the health care sector. One of the biggest challenges for health care management is to handle the digitisation of the sector and to get more value out of

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Health Care

Advanced Analytics

Susan KahlerApril 20, 2018 0

How to build deep learning models with SAS

SAS® supports the creation of deep neural network models. Examples of these models include convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, feedforward neural networks and autoencoder neural networks. Let’s examine in more detail how SAS creates deep learning models using SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning. Deep learning models with

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Charlie ChaseApril 17, 2018 0

How machine learning is disrupting demand planning

If you think machine learning will replace demand planners, then don’t read this post. If you think machine learning will automate and unleash the power of insights allowing demand planners to drive more value and growth, then this article is a must read.

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Manufacturing | Retail

Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization

Lane WhatleyApril 16, 2018 0

The remarkable results of applied curiosity

The SAS® Global Forum Technology Connection isn’t just an opportunity to show off what SAS has been working on. It’s a chance to meet the people behind SAS® technology, see the results of their relentless curiosity, and understand how the world is transformed by it. Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Patricia NeriApril 13, 2018 0

An introduction to SAS Visual Forecasting 8.2

This post is an introduction to SAS Visual Forecasting 8.2. We'll build a Visual Forecasting (VF) Pipeline, which is a process flow diagram whose nodes represent tasks in the VF Process. The objective is to show how to perform the full analytics life cycle with large volumes of data: from accessing data and assigning variable roles accurately, to building forecasting models, to select a champion model and overriding the system generated forecast.

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things

Peter Pugh-JonesApril 12, 2018 0

Accelerated evolution: IoT’s role in training AI

Each of us is defined and shaped by a combination of our experience and our genetic makeup. The precise balance of nature and nurture is not clear, but it is probably fair to say that as we get older, experience may become more important. This is crucial to being able

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization

Leonid BatkhanApril 1, 2018 0

SAS discovers a new planet in the Solar System

Inspired by curiosity and backed by the most powerful analytics in the world, SAS discovers a new planet in our Solar system. See how we used SAS Viya to make this historic discovery.

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Cindy WangMarch 29, 2018 0

Play with classification of Iris data using gradient boosting

Gradient boosting is one of the most widely used machine learning models in practice. See how to use gradient boosting model for classification in SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning.

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Administrators

Stuart RogersMarch 29, 2018 0

SAS Viya 3.3 Kerberos Delegation

Learn about the new feature of SAS Viya 3.3 that enables Kerberos delegation throughout the environment. It allows you to have end-user sessions in SAS Cloud Analytics Services that are able to use Kerberos to connect to Secured Hadoop.

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management | Programming Tips

Andrew KramerMarch 29, 2018 0

Implicit SQL Pass-through to Hive in SAS Viya

With the release of SAS Viya 3.3, you now have the ability to pass implicit SQL queries to a variety of SQL data sources, including Hive. Here's what happens as users write SAS compliant SQL code.

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Advanced Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Ioannis StavridisMarch 26, 2018 0

Lessons from digitisation: The experience of Commerzbank

In my last post, I talked to Anja Stolz, CMO of Commerzbank, about the importance of customer experience in banking, and how making human connections can be one of the most vital elements. This post continues our discussion, and explores Anja’s team’s experience of digitisation, and the lessons that they

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Banking

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Kleber WedemannMarch 26, 2018 0

La próxima era analítica: Inteligencia Artificial

Imaginar que a través de un comando de voz pudiera analizar escenarios de negocio y predecir rendimientos, o tomar cualquier acción de negocio, ya no son ideas futuristas e irreales. El hecho de que, en los últimos dos años, los ejecutivos de las 500 empresas de Fortune tengan inquietud sobre

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Michel PhilippensMarch 22, 2018 0

Paradise Found road show: AI and machine learning for all to see

The democratisation of analytics is apparent when you consider who is involved these days. SAS has been doing statistical analysis for 40 years (without the aid of big data in the early days) and had algorithms for machine learning in its portfolio long before machine learning was a buzzword. In

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management

Morten Krogh DanielsenMarch 21, 2018 0

How to improve diagnostic coding through technology

Today it is possible to use freeform text from patient journals in data management to support healthcare professionals in their daily decision making. This blog post elaborates on how hospitals can automate their diagnostic coding to be more efficient, reduce errors, and improve quality and patient safety.  This is the second blog

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Health Care

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Machine Learning | Students & Educators

Markus GrauMarch 21, 2018 0

Business Analytics: Real-World Use Cases für Universitäten und Hochschulen

In meiner Funktion als Academic Program Manager unterstütze ich Hochschulen in den Themengebieten künstliche Intelligenz (KI), Data Science und Business Analytics. Einer der am häufigsten geäußerten Wünsche ist, dass seitens SAS, Use-Cases zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Keine theoretischen Gebilde, sondern echte, reale Daten von Firmen mit einem handfesten Business-Problem, das

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German

Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

GastbeiträgeMarch 20, 2018 0

Web-Applikationen in SAS erstellen – ein Leichtes mit Handsontable und H54s-Adapter

Wie kann ich einem Mitarbeiter die unkomplizierte Anzeige und Bearbeitung von SAS Daten im Web-Browser ermöglichen? Diese Frage hat sich das SAS Expertenteam der mayato GmbH gestellt und den Lösungsweg in einem Whitepaper veröffentlicht. Das Whitepaper zeigt, wie mit SAS 9.4, HTML5 und JavaScript eine interaktive Web-Applikation erstellt werden kann.

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German

Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Andreas BecksMarch 20, 2018 0

Paradise lost? The data have found it in West Perth

Ever dream of living somewhere that has free public transportation? Or the highest concentration of self-made millionaires? Maybe an area where every resident has the equivalent of five tennis courts of green space, and there are 84,274.6 km of walkways? You can have it all in West Perth! At least

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Mads KroghMarch 19, 2018 0

Will we trust AI enough to realise its full potential?

Did you know that whether you own a car, and the colour of your car, can give some very interesting insights into whether you will pay your taxes? This may sound unlikely, but recent work with a European national tax office using some highly detailed data found some fascinating connections.

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Government