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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Kimberly Nevala

Kimberly NevalaJuly 29, 2021 0

AI in real-life: A Q&A with Gavin Day

In this Q&A with MIT/SMR Connections, Gavin Day, Senior Vice President of Technology at SAS, shares real-life examples of artificial intelligence (AI) at work, discusses picking the right problems to solve with AI, dispels a common misconception about AI, and defines AI success. Q: Could you describe some especially interesting

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things

Lee Ann DietzJuly 29, 2021 0

Modern infrastructure must include analytics

Throughout its history, the United States has invested in infrastructure that leverages new technologies and helps society and its economy thrive. With the advent of trains in the early 1800s, four of the country’s five transcontinental railroads were built with assistance from the federal government. When cars replaced horses and

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Energy & Utilities | Government

Analytics | Programming Tips

Randy CollicaJuly 29, 2021 0

An analytic transform for cantankerous data

When using ordinary least squares regression (OLS), if your response or dependent attribute isn’t close to a normal distribution, your analysis is going to be affected and typically not in a good way. The farther away your input data is from normality, the greater the impact on your model will

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things

Fadi GlorJuly 27, 2021 0

Dummies Guide to Predictive Maintenance

Beloved Dummies: Let’s demystify another #AI-hype today: predictive maintenance. Yet another one of these buzzwords that require batteries of #DataScientists and truckloads of programmers. Let me show you how Dummies like you and me can address this. What is predictive maintenance? So we’re talking maintenance of machinery. Sure, you can

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Miriam RamírezJuly 27, 2021 0

Gestión efectiva de datos, fundamental para un gobierno efectivo

Durante la historia reciente, los gobiernos se han enfrentado a fenómenos económicos que amenazan su estabilidad financiera, creando desempleo y acelerando la urgencia de prestar servicios de apoyo social. Recientemente, una emergencia sanitaria, la de COVID-19, sacudió dicha estabilidad y disparó la demanda de recursos de salud debido a la

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Management

Brian HoldenJuly 27, 2021 0

Are credit unions the future of banking?

If the big banks won’t help when times are tough, customers will turn to smaller, simpler providers. And once they’ve switched, banks will struggle to win them back. I’ve written before about how banks are an essential part of the UK’s social fabric. Our economy depends on the availability of

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Analytics

Harry SnartJuly 26, 2021 0

Understanding your data: Basic summary statistics

Following on from my last blog introducing the series, in this section, we’ll take a first look at Explanatory Data Analysis with basic summary statistics. Getting started with a new dataset in analytics can be daunting. It can help when first looking at a dataset to start with basic summary

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Analytics | Machine Learning

Eric SiegelJuly 22, 2021 0

Getting the green light for a machine learning project

How do you convince decision makers in your enterprise to give a machine learning (ML) project the green light? You might be super excited about machine learning – as many of us are – and might think that this stuff should basically sell itself! The value proposition can seem totally

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Damien Caby, BASF

Andrea DeinertJuly 21, 2021 0

Oilfield and Mining Sector - Contribution of Artificial Intelligence AI#42

The use of AI can and will replace some mining jobs but will also lead to countless new jobs in the field of AI.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Cloud

Aunque no es un único factor y muchas veces ni siquiera es el más importante, la tecnología juega como uno de los principales vehículos para desatar la innovación en los diferentes equipos e iniciativas de negocio. Una de las principales tecnologías que está apalancando esta innovación corporativa es la analítica en la nube.

Javier Alexander Rengifo

Javier Alexander RengifoJuly 21, 2021 0

Analítica en la nube, un nuevo nivel de innovación y transformación empresarial

En 2020: empresas en Colombia como Ecopetrol, el Grupo Nutresa, Familia y Cementos Argos fueron seleccionadas como las más innovadoras, según un ranking que elaboraron la Andi (Asociación Nacional de Empresarios) y Semana). ¿Saben cuál es uno de los principales desafíos que tienen todas esas organizaciones? Ser aún más innovadoras. Y es

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

Randy CollicaJuly 21, 2021 0

Clustering made simple

In my new book, I explain how segmentation and clustering can be accomplished in three ways: coding in SAS, point-and-click in SAS Visual Statistics, and point-and-click in SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning using SAS Model Studio. These three analytical tools allow you to do many diverse types of

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | SAS Events

Jim HarrisJuly 21, 2021 0

Building for the digital future of service

The evolution of service is simplicity and clarity. Build for the digital future of service today.

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Business Analytics Portugal

Business Analytics PortugalJuly 20, 2021 0

Os dados como meio para tomar decisiões e melhorar a experiência do cliente

Frequentemente ouvimos falar de transformação digital e digitalização. O certo é que, entre ser uma empresa digital e ser uma entidade que toma decisões cem por cento baseadas em dados e em conhecimento empírico, há um longo caminho a percorrer, principalmente se não contarmos com as ferramentas adequadas. Por mais

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English | Portuguese

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Gloria CaberoJuly 20, 2021 0

Analítica, desafíos y oportunidades para las empresas mexicanas

Las empresas mexicanas han alcanzado, sin duda, un importante nivel de madurez en lo que se refiere a la adopción de tecnologías analíticas. Reconocen cada vez más la importancia de aprovechar la analítica, junto con la inteligencia artificial (IA) y el machine learning (ML), para automatizar procesos, lograr mayor agilidad

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Harry SnartJuly 19, 2021 0

Understanding your data: A series on the importance of Exploratory Data Analysis

Following on from my introductory blog series, Data Science in the Wild, we’re going to start delving into how you can scale up and industrialise your Analytics with SAS Viya. In future blogs we will look at how you can augment your R & Python code to leverage SAS Viya

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Cloud

Simon OvertonJuly 19, 2021 0

UK Government: Time to think again about the journey to digital transformation?

I’ve written before about how the COVID-19 crisis has forced UK government departments to accelerate their digital transformation, and proved that it’s possible to put policy into practice in weeks, rather than months or years. Amidst the dark cloud of the pandemic, it’s important to acknowledge silver linings where we

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJuly 19, 2021 0

Copulas and multivariate distributions with normal marginals

After my recent articles on simulating data by using copulas, many readers commented about the power of copulas. Yes, they are powerful, and the geometry of copulas is beautiful. However, it is important to be aware of the limitations of copulas. This article creates a bizarre example of bivariate data,

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Analytics

Business Analytics Portugal

Business Analytics PortugalJuly 16, 2021 0

L’École de la Data et de l’IA de Business & Decision, une référence dans la formation Data

Article co-écrit avec Frédéric Sanchez, directeur de l’Ecole de la Data, et Didier Gaultier,Business & Decision Créée il a juste 2 ans, l’École de la data et de l’IA est l’illustration d’une ambition unique dans le monde des ESN : recruter des talents, former de manière pratique et opérationnelle aux

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Analytics

Leticia Medeiros

Leticia MedeirosJuly 16, 2021 0

Analytics na otimização dos serviços em telecomunicações

“Dados não conduzem sua organização. Decisões, sim.” Com esta frase, Debbie Mayville, líder global de consultoria para as indústrias de telecomunicações e mídia do SAS, inicia sua apresentação durante o SAS Telco Summit 2021. A especialista reforça a importância do uso de Inteligência Artificial para que as empresas ofereçam a

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Brazilian Portuguese

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Cloud

Thais CerioniJuly 16, 2021 0

TIM vai migrar 100% de seus data centers para a nuvem até 2023

A TIM Brasil irá migrar todos os seus data centers de TI para a nuvem até 2023. O projeto, iniciado no ano passado, será baseado no modelo multi-cloud e contará com o apoio de parceiros como Oracle e Microsoft. “É um projeto ousado, mas que certamente vale a pena. Hoje,

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Brazilian Portuguese

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Thais CerioniJuly 16, 2021 0

Do atendimento ao open finance, analytics está no core da estratégia do Bradesco

Keynote speaker do SAS Telco Summit 2021, Rafael Cavalcanti, superintendente-executivo de data science do Bradesco, contou como a transformação digital tem papel fundamental na entrega de melhores resultados e de uma melhor experiência para o cliente do banco. Ao longo de sua apresentação, o executivo comentou sobre quatro casos em

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Brazilian Portuguese

Analytics

Victoria SilvaJuly 16, 2021 0

Telco Summit 2021 proporciona debate com executivos das maiores empresas de telecomunicação do Brasil

Com a participação de André Guerreiro, CAO e diretor de inteligência de marketing e análise de dados da Claro Brasil; Fabricio Bindi, diretor de AI e customer insights da Vivo, e Sergio Gaiotto, diretor de data analytics da Oi, o painel “Telecomunicações na era da Inteligência”, moderado por Luiz Riscado,

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Brazilian Portuguese

Analytics

Victoria SilvaJuly 16, 2021 0

Vivo: digitalizar para se aproximar do cliente

Em palestra no Telco Summit 2021, Fabrício Bindi, diretor de AI e Customer Insights da Vivo, falou sobre a importância da aproximação da marca com o cliente por meio da digitalização e os resultados no uso do analytics nos processos da organização. O executivo falou sobre alguns casos de uso,

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Brazilian Portuguese

Analytics

Leticia Medeiros

Leticia MedeirosJuly 16, 2021 0

Mais Dados, Mais Claro: conheça o projeto de democratização do analytics da Claro Brasil

Durante sua apresentação no SAS Telco Summit 2021, Luciano Diettrich, head de advanced analytics na Claro, buscou ilustrar os caminhos percorridos pela Claro para inclusão de soluções analíticas nos seus processos. O executivo dividiu a evolução da companhia em três ondas: a primeira, vivenciada entre 2006 e 2010, contou com

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Brazilian Portuguese

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization

Business Analytics Portugal

Business Analytics PortugalJuly 16, 2021 0

What does Florence Nightingale have to do with democratizing analytics?

We need, in other words, to democratise analytics in the true sense of the word, by making them accessible to everyone.

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

SAS SpainJuly 16, 2021 0

IA explicable: ¿por qué es tan importante explicar la inteligencia artificial?

Tras la reciente aprobación de la regulación europea del uso de la inteligencia artificial, hemos observado cómo cobra fuerza el concepto de explainable AI o inteligencia artificial explicable. ¿En qué consiste exactamente? Su objetivo pasa por garantizar que las interacciones de los usuarios con los modelos en los que se

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Learn SAS

Olivia OjedaJuly 15, 2021 0

10 data science job statistics that will blow your mind

In 2012, Data Scientist was dubbed the sexiest job of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review and it is one of the most in-high demand jobs in the world. Data has become a key part of every organization as technology flourishes. As the world become increasingly digitized, businesses are

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Manuel Rodriguez

Manuel RodriguezJuly 14, 2021 0

Las aseguradoras y la mejora de la detección del fraude

Las aseguradoras afrontan desde hace tiempo una continua batalla contra diferentes tipos de fraude. Fraude en los siniestros, fraude en la suscripción de póliza, ciberataques, fraude interno, etc. En Estados Unidos, un estudio de la Coalition Against Insurance Fraud lo estima en un total de 80.000 millones de dólares. El

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Analytics

Olivia OjedaJuly 14, 2021 0

Old-fashioned hospitality and new-fangled analytics

If you’ve ever traveled, you know the excitement of getting to explore a whole new place. After a year of quarantine, people are desperate for that feeling again. As Covid-19 restrictions lift, travel companies need to be prepared for the substantial amount of customer data that will become available. With

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJuly 14, 2021 0

Compare computational methods for least squares regression

In a previous article, I discussed various ways to solve a least-square linear regression model. I discussed the SWEEP operator (used by many SAS regression routines), the LU-based methods (SOLVE and INV in SAS/IML), and the QR decomposition (CALL QR in SAS/IML). Each method computes the estimates for the regression

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