Analytics

Roberto TorresDecember 10, 2018 0

SAS Academy, la plataforma de despegue del científico de datos

“No sólo piense como un científico de datos, conviértase en uno”. Esta afirmación puede marcar una gran diferencia entre sobresalir como un profesional analítico en la era de la transformación digital, o quedarse estancado sin explotar sus capacidades y perdiendo oportunidades de crecer, influir en las decisiones de su organización

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Education

Analytics

David PopeDecember 7, 2018 0

Grandma got over run by a neural network

Once again, I have chosen to take a traditional Christmas song or carol and create a fun technology-related version of it to share with you. This is the fifth year and the eighth song, so I hope you enjoy your 2018 holiday song. Grandma got over run by a neural

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Analytics

Paul GittinsDecember 6, 2018 0

Does your choice of coding language matter?

I can still remember the emergence in the 1990s of Java as a universal and largely open-sourced programming language. Some observers believed it would signal the eventual demise of proprietary languages such as C, Fortran and Cobol. Current surveys, however, and there are many, confirm that plenty of people continue

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English

Analytics

Leo SadovyDecember 6, 2018 0

Analytics you can use: Manage your queue for better customer service

There is one equation every retail store, call center, traffic, airport or hospital manager should know by heart.  No, it’s not E = mc².  The one I had in mind is this: W = 1 / (μ – λ) It may not look like much, but it can mean the

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Suneel GroverDecember 6, 2018 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: Decision management, machine learning, and digital marketing

A typical day brings countless business decisions that affect everything from profitability to customer experience. What is a reasonable price point? Which audience segments should I personalize offers for? When should I recommend specific content earlier in a customer journey? Daily decisions like these can alter the trajectory of a

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English

Analytics | Learn SAS

James Ochiai-BrownDecember 5, 2018 0

The Analytics Platform seen through Enterprise Architecture

Analytics is on every agenda – including Enterprise Architecture Data analytics and AI is now on the agenda of every organisation. After years of being the back-room preserve of analysts, it is now out in the open, in the boardroom and being proclaimed as central to business strategy and transformation.

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Analytics | SAS Events

Paula HendersonDecember 5, 2018 0

How analytics can shape the government workforce

Creative government workforce approaches come in many forms. Some time ago, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offered employees an interesting choice to incentivize them to stay. Employees could either telework from home one day per week or receive $1,000. As Jon Lemon, principal industry consultant at SAS told the

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Government

Analytics

Luis BarrientosDecember 4, 2018 0

Cómo se prepara el sector financiero mexicano para implementar IFRS 9: una lectura con mayor lupa

La devastación que provocó la crisis financiera de hace una década, que alcanzó a las principales economías del mundo y contagió al resto, dio origen a modificaciones y actualizaciones en las Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera (NIIF). En particular, me centraré en la NIIF 9 (o IFRS 9, International Financial

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Spanish

Banking | Government

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Vijayne GovenderDecember 4, 2018 0

The customer intelligence collection

If you want to get to grips with the topic of customer intelligence, who better to ask than David Cosgrave, who leads the SAS® Customer Intelligence team in South EMEA? Over the last few years, David has written a number of articles, and contributed to several others, on the subject

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English

Communications | Government | Retail

Analytics

Ivor G. MoanDecember 3, 2018 0

Data Preparation in the Analytical Life Cycle - Part 1

What is Data Preparation and why does it matter? Data preparation is all the tasks involved in collecting, processing, and cleansing data for use in analytics and business intelligence. It therefore includes accessing, loading, structuring, purging, unifying (joining), adjusting data types, checking fields to see that only valid values are

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Analytics

Paul RidgeDecember 3, 2018 0

Customer-centricity and the current loyalty paradox

Does loyalty pay in business? Most of us, if asked, would probably say that it ought to do so. Fairness suggests that there should be an element of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.” In other words, if I remain your customer, you will look out for my interests;

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Insurance

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Nico BüttnerDecember 3, 2018 0

KI in Computerspielen und was sie uns über KI in der Geschäftswelt lehren kann

Ich muss gestehen: ich bin leidenschaftlicher Gamer. Man könnte auch sagen, ein „Nerd“. Ich liebe Computerspiele, nicht nur, sie zu spielen, sondern ich möchte auch wissen, wie sie gemacht werden, wie sie funktionieren und wohin die Entwicklung in Zukunft führen wird. Ganz besonders interessiert mich, wie künstliche Intelligenz in Spielen

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German

Analytics

Georgia MarianiDecember 3, 2018 0

Two professors’ perspectives on SAS and the future of analytics

In this blog series, we’ve spoken directly to professors to find out why it’s so important to teach analytics, their advice for students, and to learn how they create interest in analytics programs at their universities. For this third and final post, we’ll hear how SAS has played a role

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Jennifer BellDecember 3, 2018 0

My teaching doesn’t change, why does my EVAAS score?

A conversation with my mentor has always stuck in my mind: Teaching is not about me, directly, it’s about serving my students. Teaching is about providing each of my students what they need to learn the material and to grow academically and as an individual. Teaching is about student learning.

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Education | Government

Analytics | Data Management

Joyce Norris-MontanariDecember 3, 2018 0

The data scientist: Asking the right questions

Data scientists need good skills in communication, data mining, data wrangling and more. Joyce Norris-Montanari explains.

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Greg HeidrickNovember 29, 2018 0

Will 2019 be the year of an IoT epiphany in retail?

Whether you're reading industry articles about smart tags or analyst reports about inventory tracking, you've probably noticed an uptick in coverage on the adoption of IoT (and RFID) in retail. Since I've been following these topics for awhile, I've decided to dedicate a series of posts on the ways IoT can be used

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Retail

Analytics

Tonia CalvioNovember 28, 2018 0

Come incrementare le potenzialità delle risorse umane grazie a People Analytics

La prova definitiva per poter definire una tecnologia “mainstream” consiste nel verificare che essa venga ampiamente utilizzata in tutta l'azienda, dalle funzioni a servizio del cliente alle attività di back-office. Gli analytics sono stati a lungo incentrati sul cliente ed ampiamente utilizzati anche per le prestazioni individuali, ad esempio, dalle

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Italian

Analytics | Internet of Things

Chris HartmannNovember 28, 2018 0

Die Supply Chain der Dinge

Wie wäre es, wenn Sie Anomalien in der Lieferkette automatisch erkennen oder vorhersagen könnten? Wenn Sie also die Chance bekämen, rechtzeitig Korrekturmaßnahmen zu ergreifen und so Umsatz, Margen und Kundenzufriedenheit zu steigern? Die Planung einer Supply Chain kann sehr komplex sein. Von der Planung und Beschaffung über die Fertigung bis

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German

Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics

Greg HorneNovember 28, 2018 0

Is telemedicine the future of medicine?

I first used telemedicine (the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of telecommunications technology) in the mid-90s when I was working as an on-call CT technician in the UK. We used a modem to transfer head trauma scans to the local neurology center for assessment so that the

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Analytics | Data for Good

Steve KearneyNovember 28, 2018 0

SAS and The Washington Post shine light on the opioid epidemic, including role of analytics

The opioid epidemic continues to be one of the largest challenges facing the United States. In 2016, more than 42,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses, and that number continues to climb. Recent data shows that more than 130 people die every day in the United States after overdosing on opioids,

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Government | Health Care

Analytics | Data Management

Jim HarrisNovember 27, 2018 0

Data steward: The concierge of analytics

Jim Harris says data stewards are essential to analytics, providing life cycle management for data across the enterprise.

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English

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Suneel GroverNovember 27, 2018 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: Model management for competitive differentiation [Part 1]

The universe of customer experiences, digital analytics, personalization and decisioning is massive. At times, it can seem as complicated and vast as the galaxy itself. With intricate subjects underneath this umbrella, you can lose direction, wander aimlessly, or feel a misleading sense of success or failure. When you lose vision,

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinNovember 26, 2018 0

A funnel plot for immunization rates

Last week my colleague, Robert Allison, visualized data regarding immunization rates for kindergarten classes in North Carolina. One of his graphs was a scatter plot that displayed the proportion of unimmunized students versus the size of the class for 1,885 kindergarten classes in NC. This scatter plot is the basis

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Analytics

Rodrigo AriasNovember 23, 2018 0

Siete desafíos que enfrenta el comercio electrónico en México

Está próximo a celebrarse en México (el 27 de noviembre) Hot Sale, evento anual cuyo propósito es impulsar las ventas de productos de consumo en línea a través de ofertas, descuentos y promociones especiales. Organizado por la Asociación Mexicana de Ventas en Línea (AMVO), la Asociación Mexicana de Internet (AMIPCI)

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Spanish

Retail

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Pedro Felipe CerónNovember 23, 2018 0

¿Cómo competir en el sector del retail durante los días de descuentos por Internet?

Hace unas semanas se celebró la vigésima sexta edición de Góndola, el encuentro más importante para la industria del retail en Colombia. En su desarrollo se habló de los cambios que ha venido enfrentando el sector debido a la variedad de los perfiles de los nuevos clientes, y se afirmó que

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Spanish

Retail

Analytics | Machine Learning

Chris HartmannNovember 22, 2018 0

Machine Learning: Mehr Effizienz im Planungsprozess

Sie glauben, dass Machine Learning die Rolle von Nachfrageplanern komplett ersetzen kann? Dann lesen Sie diesen Beitrag besser nicht. Wenn Sie jedoch der Ansicht sind, dass maschinelles Lernen den Planungsprozess automatisieren kann, so dass Nachfrageplaner effizienter arbeiten können, dann stimme ich Ihnen voll und ganz zu! Intelligente Automatisierungstechniken sind quasi

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German

Manufacturing

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Makoto Unemi (畝見 真)November 21, 2018 0

SAS Viya：一般物体検出（Object Detection）を試してみた

PythonからSAS Viyaの機能を利用するための基本パッケージであるSWATと、よりハイレベルなPython向けAPIパッケージであるDLPyを使用して、Jupyter NotebookからPythonでSAS Viyaの機能を使用して一般物体検出（Object Detection）を試してみました。  今回は、弊社で用意した数枚の画像データを使用して、処理の流れを確認するだけなので、精度に関しては度外視です。  大まかな処理の流れは以下の通りです。 １．必要なパッケージ（ライブラリ）のインポートとセッションの作成 ２．一般物体検出向け学習用データの作成 ３．モデル構造の定義 ４．モデル生成（学習） ５．物体検出（スコアリング）  １．必要なパッケージ（ライブラリ）のインポートとセッションの作成 swatやdlpyなど、必要なパッケージをインポートします。 from swat import * import sys sys.path.append(dlpy_path) from dlpy.model import * from dlpy.layers import * from dlpy.applications import * from dlpy.utils import * from dlpy.images import ImageTable   from dlpy.splitting import two_way_split from dlpy.blocks import *

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Japanese

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 21, 2018 0

Finding a cut-your-own Christmas tree in North Carolina

This week I noticed that they've started building the lot where they sell Christmas trees near SAS (at the intersection of Maynard & Reedy Creek Rd). They put up a nice rustic wooden fence, and lights, and maybe even a fire pit to keep their workers warm. They sell some

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English

Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinNovember 21, 2018 0

Generalized inverses for matrices

A data analyst asked how to compute parameter estimates in a linear regression model when the underlying data matrix is rank deficient. This situation can occur if one of the variables in the regression is a linear combination of other variables. It also occurs when you use the GLM parameterization

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Analytics

Michael RabinNovember 20, 2018 0

Process improvements in insurance are boring – or are they?

If we look at digitisation projects among insurance companies, the majority are essentially process improvements and cost savings. Processes and costs. These are not exactly “modern” terms. They are more or less precisely the opposite of the usual buzzwords and statements about digitisation and innovation. Does that make them boring

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Insurance