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Analytics | Data Management

David PopeMarch 24, 2017 0

Don't let data issues delay analytics

In a recent presentation, Jill Dyche, VP of SAS Best Practices gave two great quotes: "Map strategy to data" and "strategy drives analytics drives data." In other words, don't wait for your data to be perfect before you invest in analytics. Don't get me wrong -- I fully understand and

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Analytics

Sandra Hernandez

Sandra HernandezMarch 23, 2017 0

Cómo recorrer el camino hacia la transformación y no perderse en el intento

Hablar sobre qué es #BigData en el mundo empresarial, dicho por los mismos expertos, ya no es una novedad. El concepto, al igual que su finalidad, ha ido evolucionando a tal punto que las organizaciones coinciden en que ya no se trata de tener información almacenada sin más, sino de

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonMarch 23, 2017 0

Bringing the heat! - Creating heat maps with proc sgplot ...

If you're a fan of SAS' ODS Graphics, you probably know that it does pretty much everything except geographical maps. But it's flexible enough that you can "fake it 'till you make it"! This example describes how to fake a geographical (choropleth) heat map using Proc SGplot polygons. In my

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Government | Health Care

Analytics

Ashley BinderMarch 22, 2017 0

Make an accurate prediction without watching a single basketball game

The second round of the 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament was an interesting one. Eight-seeded Wisconsin took out the reigning champion Wildcats, despite pundit predictions that Villanova could go all the way again. South Carolina, 24-10 in the SEC during the regular season, upset perennial favorite Duke by seven points.

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Management

Gianluca MenconiMarch 22, 2017 0

Does age matter? A question of analytics maturity

Does age matter? Perhaps not, but maturity certainly does. The level of analytics maturity, in particular, makes a big difference to the options open to companies, and the strategies that they can adopt to get best value from analytics. A model of analytics maturity I like Thomas Davenport’s model of

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Analytics

Antonio Autorino

Antonio AutorinoMarch 21, 2017 0

Win-win model is the key to digital transformation of companies

Innovation and transformation of established companies needs to be through a collaborative model. Done right, it can be profitable for all players. I have always thought that human evolution and development is one of the most interesting and challenging processes in the world, especially in terms of innovation and investing.

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Colin BristowMarch 21, 2017 0

Anti-money laundering requirements: Are the stakes increasing?

Part 504 of the US Department of Financial Services Superintendent’s Regulations seems to significantly up the requirements for firms to conduct ongoing review and continuously improve their approach to anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring. But is it really very different from the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force's broader suggestions to introduce

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Tim ClarkMarch 20, 2017 0

Achieving a quality-connected enterprise

Quality in every thought, every action, every outcome You might think differentiating on the quality of your products is a no-brainer – who wouldn’t seek to make every product incredibly high quality? Yet experience shows us that many manufacturers only capture data from the production line. While this approach creates

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Analytics | Internet of Things | SAS Events

SAS Forum Milan

Emanuela Sferco

Emanuela SfercoMarch 17, 2017 0

A SAS Forum Milan l'inimmaginabile è già a portata di mano

Il contesto che stiamo vivendo oggi è rappresentato perfettamente dalle parole di Moshe Vardi, professore di Computer Science alla University of Texas e esperto mondiale di robotica. Secondo Vardi, i progressi della scienza robotica e dell’intelligenza artificiale produrranno cambiamenti così drastici e repentini nel nostro modo di vivere e di fare business

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Steven SoberMarch 17, 2017 0

Collaborative distributed data management with open source

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles to help current SAS programmers add SAS Viya to their analytics skillset. In this post, Advisory Solutions Architect Steven Sober explores how to accomplish distributed data management using SAS Viya. Read additional posts in the series. In my last article I

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Tomasz Rydzewski

Tomasz RydzewskiMarch 17, 2017 0

SAS Visual Analytics - jak wykorzystać potęgę analityki?

Obecnie większość firm, operujących na danych, korzysta z mniej lub bardziej zaawansowanej analityki. Ten trend przestaje być przywilejem wielkich korporacji, a staje się standardem dla wszystkich, także małych i średnich firm. I tak jak potrzeba korzystania z analityki rozprzestrzenia się wśród firm, tak dzieje się to także wewnątrz organizacji, zwiększając

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Steven SoberMarch 16, 2017 0

Collaborative distributed data management using SAS Viya

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles to help current SAS programmers add SAS Viya to their analytics skillset. In this post, Advisory Solutions Architect Steven Sober explores how to accomplish distributed data management using SAS Viya. Read additional posts in the series. This article in the SAS

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Analytics | SAS Events

Sandra Hernandez

Sandra HernandezMarch 16, 2017 0

El Big Data no es tan listo como parece

Mucho hemos oído del #BigData y su enorme potencial para mejorar las actividades humanas en general y de los negocios en particular. Pero, ¿no nos estaremos obsesionando con almacenar la mayor cantidad de información posible sin pensar realmente en cómo vamos a usarla y para qué? Aquí es donde entra

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 16, 2017 0

Using SAS to track UFOs on Mars!

When we send spacecraft from Earth to Mars, do the Martians consider them to be UFOs? I might not be able to answer that question definitively ... but I do have some really cool graphs showing the data for all those missions to Mars! You might remember a previous blog

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Government | Life Sciences | Travel

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Peter SnellingMarch 16, 2017 0

Why our future prosperity demands smart borders

There have been some rather hysterical headlines in the UK recently about immigration. Eyebrow-raising statements alluding to the Home Office (the government department responsible for immigration) losing thousands of asylum seekers illustrate that efforts to trace them are placing huge pressure on resources. This, and the more outward looking post-Brexit

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

March 15, 2017 0

Cómo la Analítica Combate el Fraude Fiscal

El fraude en materia fiscal es bastante común, y los defraudadores son cada vez más sofisticados y automatizados que nunca. Con el fin de detectar oportunamente el fraude y proteger los ingresos, las agencias tributarias necesitan utilizar y aprovechar la analítica predictiva más avanzada. Actualmente las agencias tributarias, aquellos organismos

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Dr. Jürgen KaselowskyMarch 13, 2017 0

Entschuldigung, wo bitte kann ich denn Data Scientist werden?

Ach, dieses ewige Big-Data-Gerede … alles nur Marketing, oder ist da vielleicht doch etwas dran? Brauche ich das als Absolvent auf Jobsuche? Und wenn ja, wo wird denn so etwas angeboten? Blickt da jemand überhaupt noch durch? Klar, ich! Es sind spannende Zeiten, denn es ist nicht mehr zu leugnen:

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | SAS Events

David PopeMarch 13, 2017 0

4 strategic uses of analytics

Every where you turn today, you run into analytics. If you talk about big data, you will talk about analytics, if you talk about the internet of things (IoT), you will talk about analytics, if you talk about automation ... well, you get the picture. When used properly, analytics has always

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Sam EdgemonMarch 13, 2017 0

The top 10 statistics to consider when filling out your NCAA brackets

My high school basketball coach started preparing us for the tournaments in the season’s first practice. He talked about the “long haul” of tournament basketball, and geared our strategies toward a successful run at the end of the season. I thought about the “long haul” when considering my brackets for

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Analytics

Larry OrimoloyeMarch 10, 2017 0

Are ensemble classifiers always better than single classifiers?

Ensemble models have been used extensively in credit scoring applications and other areas because they are considered to be more stable and, more importantly, predict better than single classifiers (see Lessmann et al., 2015). They are also known to reduce model bias and variance (Myoung - Jong et al., 2006;

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Students & Educators

Michael ThomasMarch 10, 2017 0

North Carolina's youth chess championship by the numbers

Once again, SAS is sponsoring the North Carolina Scholastic Chess Championship. The 43 year-old event is at the Raleigh Convention Center this weekend, March 11-12th. SAS sponsors this event because of the STEM education benefits of youth chess. Hundreds of players have been preparing and studying. A few even practiced

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Analytics | Internet of Things | Machine Learning

intelligenza artificiale

Federico AgugginiMarch 9, 2017 0

Quel che resta dell’esattezza: come sfidare l’intelligenza artificiale

“Un uomo può considerarsi veramente soddisfatto solo quando sa di aver servito appieno il suo padrone” (cit. Mr. Stevens, “Quel che resta del giorno” di Kazuo Ishiguro) Parecchi anni fa, ai tempi dei miei studi universitari, mi occupavo di teatro. Un giorno, nel ripetere un esercizio legato all’interpretazione di un

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Analytics

Peter SnellingMarch 9, 2017 0

Why deeper insights, not more cash, will transform Home Office outcomes

Unlike some other UK Government departments, the Home Office has done well out of the recent spending review. Overall police spending has been protected – following the debacle of the earlier calculation errors – to protect against emerging crime threats and to train more firearms officers. Counter-terrorism has received a

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Bobbie WagonerMarch 8, 2017 0

Calculating standard deviation of a measure in Visual Analytics Designer

Several months ago, I posted a blog about calculating moving averages for a measure in the Visual Analytics Designer. Soon after that, I was asked about calculating not only the average, but also the standard deviation over a period of months, when the data might consist of one or more

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Steffen StahlMarch 8, 2017 0

Customer Intelligence Forum 2017 - Gespräch mit Dr. Jörg Reinnarth, Geschäftsführer des SAS Partners Cintellic

Am 14. März findet in Frankfurt in der „Klassikstadt“ das Customer Intelligence Forum 2017 statt. Ich habe vorab Dr. Jörg Reinnarth, den Geschäftsführer vom SAS Partner Cintellic, gefragt, welche Rolle seiner Meinung nach Analytics in Sachen Marketingmaßnahmen & Co. in Zukunft spielen wird. Er sieht vor allem einen Kulturwandel auf

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Banking | Insurance | Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonMarch 8, 2017 0

What's your next move? (analytics for a chess tournament)

The NC Scholastic Chess Championship is coming up this weekend, and my buddy Michael Thomas asked if I might could create a few graphs to help analyze the event data. How could I pass up an opportunity like that?!?! Read along, and find out what graphs I created, and the

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics

Peter Pugh-Jones

Peter Pugh-JonesMarch 8, 2017 0

Is governance getting in the way of innovation?

Digitalisation is blasting the cobwebs out from enterprises and organisations of all kinds – freeing them to innovate and take advantage of the always-on economy. But it’s also helping new disruptive players to gain an unexpectedly strong foothold in many markets. One of the key advantages these new players have

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Analytics

Steven O'DonoghueMarch 7, 2017 0

Building a high-performing analytics team

To get a high-performing analytics team producing insights that matter, you need great people, powerful software and a culture of experimentation and innovation. Three simple ingredients, but getting there is far from easy. In this post, I’d like to get you thinking about how to organize for success by building

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