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Oliver Schabenberger

Oliver SchabenbergerFebruary 17, 2020 0

4 principles of analytics you cannot ignore

Maybe you are new to AI and analytics. Or maybe you have been working with data and analytics for decades, even before we called this work data science or decision science. As the industry has broadened from statistics and analytics to big data and artificial intelligence, some things have remained

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinFebruary 17, 2020 0

Visualize collinearity diagnostics

A previous article shows how to interpret the collinearity diagnostics that are produced by PROC REG in SAS. The process involves scanning down numbers in a table in order to find extreme values. This can be a tedious and error-prone process. Friendly and Kwan (2009) compare this task to a

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Analytics | Learn SAS | SAS Events

Tricia JenkinsFebruary 13, 2020 0

Experience SAS Global Forum: A First-Timer’s View & Tip Sheet

If you’re a SAS user, you know that SAS Global Forum is where you want to be! It’s our premier, can’t-miss event for SAS professionals—that includes thousands of users, executives, partners and academics. It’s also our largest users’ event, organized by users, for users, and this year’s event marks our

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Analytics | SAS Events

Jenn ChaseFebruary 13, 2020 0

3 people I can’t wait to meet at SAS Global Forum

What do a Pulitzer prize-winning author, an Emmy award-winning TV personality and one of the top 5 influencers in the world have in common? They’ll all be at SAS Global Forum this year. It’s where analytics enthusiasts and executive thought leaders meet to share strategies, get training in abundance, and

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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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Analytics

Hidden Insights: Pots, Tupperwares and Containers SAS

Vanessa Hurhangee

Vanessa HurhangeeFebruary 12, 2020 0

Plant pots and Containers – An Introduction to SAS for Containers

Having trouble easily moving software from one environment to another? Surely this ought to be an uncomplicated process, especially in the modern age of technology! However, let us consider an analytical model built in a design environment to detect fraudulent credit card transactions. This is now ready to be rolled

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Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinFebruary 12, 2020 0

The Johnson system: Which distribution should you choose to model data?

The Johnson system (Johnson, 1949) contains a family of four distributions: the normal distribution, the lognormal distribution, the SB distribution, and the SU distribution. Previous articles explain why the Johnson system is useful and show how to use PROC UNIVARIATE in SAS to estimate parameters for the Johnson SB distribution

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Analytics

Héctor CoboFebruary 11, 2020 0

La Inteligencia Artificial podría ser la solución contra el coronavirus

El coronavirus ha sido un tema importante en las noticias últimamente: es una enfermedad similar a la neumonía que ha cobrado la vida de varias personas. Se cree que comenzó en China y se ha extendido a varios otros países, por lo que debemos estar preparados en caso de que

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Health Care | Hospitality

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

David-Alexandre Laurie

David-Alexandre LaurieFebruary 10, 2020 0

NRF 2020 : Quelles tendances s’annoncent prédominantes pour le retail en 2020 ?

Alors que certains annonçaient encore récemment la mort du commerce de détail en magasin, prédiction confortée par la croissance explosive d'Amazon, nous avons clairement vu se profiler une seconde vie des magasins en nous promenant dans les couloirs du Javitz Center de New York pendant la NRF 2020. Le commerce

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Analytics

Joost HuiskensFebruary 10, 2020 0

The hospital as a data-driven organisation

Like any other organisations in this day and age, hospitals and other health care providers now have access to increasingly large amounts of data. They can potentially augment electronic patient records with data from patients’ own devices: wearables, mobile phones and other gadgets. Far more hospital equipment now contains sensors,

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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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Analytics

Experimente sus nuevas posibilidades con analítica

Mauricio GonzálezFebruary 5, 2020 0

Retos del sector financiero: ¿cómo aprovechar al máximo las inversiones en analítica?

El sector financiero es de los más avanzados en el uso de las herramientas de analítica, en función del modelo analítico puede evaluarse el riesgo de crédito y cartera, cumplir con las regulaciones gubernamentales, determinar qué productos financieros ofrecer, entre muchas otras aplicaciones. Sin embargo, los bancos enfrentan el reto

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinFebruary 5, 2020 0

Visualize residual projections for linear regression

A SAS programmer wanted to create a graph that illustrates how Deming regression differs from ordinary least squares regression. The main idea is shown in the panel of graphs below. The first graph shows the geometry of least squares regression when we regress Y onto X. ("Regress Y onto X"

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Analytics

La analítica en un nuevo nivel

Carlos HernándezFebruary 4, 2020 0

Recomendaciones para permear una estrategia de Data Managent en todos los niveles de la organización

El mundo se está transformando y con él todos los mercados. La Tecnología Analítica, La Inteligencia Artificial, el Internet de las Cosas y la Cuarta Revolución Industrial son temas que conforman la Transformación Digital de las empresas y tienen la capacidad de mejorar el desempeño y los procesos de

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Onur DincFebruary 3, 2020 0

A new line of defence for AML teams?

Recent high-profile money laundering cases have affected the reputation of the EU's financial system. In response, the European Commission is taking immediate action – faster than ever – to close the gaps. On November 2018, only six months after the adoption of the Fifth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), the

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Analytics

Marzena Hubicka

Marzena HubickaJanuary 31, 2020 0

Do data scientists need evangelists?

Data science can be a bit of a lonely job. It’s a shortage specialty, so many data scientists may be the only ones employed by their company. But they still need to learn about what’s new and exciting in the data science world. I caught up with Josefin Rosén about

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Analítica omnnicanal

Juan Sebastián Niño

Juan Sebastián NiñoJanuary 31, 2020 0

El secreto de los grandes del retail para mejorar la planificación de la demanda

El 2020 inició con la realización del NRF 2020, para muchos el principal evento de innovación y tecnología aplicadas al sector retail o comercio minorista en el mundo. Más allá de visiones como las del Experience 2030, The Future of Customer Experience is now o de charlas y exposiciones inspiradoras

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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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Analytics | Risk Management

Javier Alexander Rengifo

Javier Alexander RengifoJanuary 30, 2020 0

¿Cómo impacta la Inteligencia Artificial a la gestión del riesgo crediticio?

La gestión del riesgo de crédito, también conocida como gestión del riesgo crediticio, es uno de los principales desafíos que enfrentarán empresas de sectores como el financiero, el asegurador, de telecomunicaciones o comercio en este 2020. Es frecuente que muchas de estas empresas lo hagan pensando en dar cumplimiento a

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Banking | Insurance

Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinJanuary 29, 2020 0

Collinearity diagnostics: Should the data be centered?

In a previous article, I showed how to perform collinearity diagnostics in SAS by using the COLLIN option in the MODEL statement in PROC REG. For models that contain an intercept term, I noted that there has been considerable debate about whether the data vectors should be mean-centered prior to

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | SAS Events | Students & Educators

Jelena Stankovic

Jelena StankovicJanuary 29, 2020 0

Data science gives you power to change the world

Meet Stefan Stoyanov. He’s an MSc Business Analytics student with a passion for emerging technologies, ranging from artificial intelligence to augmented and virtual reality.

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Analytics | Data for Good | Machine Learning

Hidden Insights: Natural Language Processing in Local government

Vanessa Hurhangee

Vanessa HurhangeeJanuary 28, 2020 0

Natural language processing in local government

Natural Language Processing can offer invaluable benefits to councils and increase resident satisfaction.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJanuary 27, 2020 0

The Johnson SU distribution

The Johnson system (Johnson, 1949) contains a family of four distributions: the normal distribution, the lognormal distribution, the SB distribution (which models bounded distributions), and the SU distribution (which models unbounded distributions). Note that 'B' stands for 'bounded' and 'U' stands for 'unbounded.' A previous article explains the purpose of

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Analytics | Machine Learning

Andrés OsorioJanuary 24, 2020 0

Machine Learning para reducir los índices de fraude

Aunque el costo exacto es incalculable, las pérdidas por fraude representan aproximadamente el 5% de los ingresos anuales de una organización, según la Asociación de Examinadores de Fraude Certificados (ACFE). Se calcula que diariamente son saqueados más de 11 mil millones de dólares a la economía global producto de robos,

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Analytics | Machine Learning

Alejandro Bolaños

Alejandro BolañosJanuary 23, 2020 0

Explícate! Entendiendo los modelos de Machine Learning (Parte IV: LIME, una nueva esperanza)

Toc, toc, toc. En algún lugar de Berlín a comienzos del siglo XX, tras esos pequeños tres golpes, se podía observar inconfundibles caras de asombro entre los periodistas y curiosos. En cambio, Wilhelm Von Osten reflejaba en su rostro algo más: felicidad, realización y por qué no, el disfrute de

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinJanuary 23, 2020 0

Collinearity in regression: The COLLIN option in PROC REG

I was recently asked about how to interpret the output from the COLLIN (or COLLINOINT) option on the MODEL statement in PROC REG in SAS. The example in the documentation for PROC REG is correct but is somewhat terse regarding how to use the output to diagnose collinearity and how

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Analytics | Data Management

Business woman reads up on self-service data preparation

Todd WrightJanuary 22, 2020 0

5 articles to read as you embark on data preparation

Learn how to get started with self-service data prep in these go-to articles.

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Datos analítica

Javier Alexander Rengifo

Javier Alexander RengifoJanuary 22, 2020 0

Visualizando los datos de manera más efectiva e inteligente

Cuando hablamos de convertir datos en inteligencia no solamente estamos haciendo referencia a obtener de ellos conocimiento para tomar las mejores decisiones. También se trata de tener formas de comunicación mucho más efectivas e impactantes a través de capacidades avanzadas de visualización, para lograr que el conocimiento sea realmente usado

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJanuary 20, 2020 0

The Johnson SB distribution

From the early days of probability and statistics, researchers have tried to organize and categorize parametric probability distributions. For example, Pearson (1895, 1901, and 1916) developed a system of seven distributions, which was later called the Pearson system. The main idea behind a "system" of distributions is that for each

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