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Analytics

Caroline HermonMarch 6, 2017 0

How to make analytics modernization work in practice

We like to think of analytics as a logical discipline, where investment decisions are consistently rational and predictable. Not so. Customer organisations are driven by all the usual complex and sometimes contradictory forces. Business users want analytics to help them make good customer facing decisions as quickly as possible, while

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Steve BennettMarch 3, 2017 0

5 Tech initiatives for the Trump administration

The Obama administration made great strides in improving the government’s use of information technology over the past eight years, and now it's up to the Trump administration to expand upon it. Let’s look at five possible Trump administration initiatives that can take government’s use of information technology to the next

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Analytics

Paul GittinsMarch 3, 2017 0

How to apply design thinking to your analytics architecture

There aren’t many things that keep me awake at night but let me share a recent example with you. I’ve been grappling with how to help a local SAS team respond to a customer’s request for a “generic enterprise analytics architecture.” As background, this customer organization had recently embarked on

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Analytics

Joanna GolaMarch 1, 2017 0

10 Commandments of Applied Econometrics or how not to sin when working with real data

It is no secret at all that there is a world of difference between theoretical and applied econometrics. Every analyst, as a practising econometrician, experiences this moment in their processional career – usually at the beginning of it – when the theory acquired during their academic time clashes with the practice. They

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Analytics-as-a-Service

Anita LakhotiaMarch 1, 2017 0

It’s a long, long road … von den Daten zur Entscheidung. Aber mit Analytics-as-a-Service wird die Reise einfacher

In meinem letzten Beitrag habe ich mich mit Colin Gray vom SAS Analytics-on-Demand-Team über die verschiedenen Optionen unterhalten, die Unternehmen zur Verfügung stehen, wenn sie in Analytics einsteigen – eine davon ist Analytics-as-a-Service. Neben dem technischen Aspekt gilt es, auch den strategischen und organisatorischen zu berücksichtigen. Daher soll es hier

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Banking | Communications | Insurance

Analytics

Greg WillisMarch 1, 2017 0

Should data scientists buy into the DevOps philosophy?

DevOps is enjoying a lot of attention at the moment, mostly because of its promise to increase software quality at lower cost. DevOps is a hybrid term linking development and operations. It's a philosophy that focuses on improving efficiencies in how we build and deliver software, solutions and the supporting environments.

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Analytics | Risk Management

Luis Barrientos

Luis BarrientosFebruary 28, 2017 0

Logre el éxito de la alta dirección mediante un buen manejo del riesgo.

Los episodios económicos y financieros del presente siglo han apremiado al sistema financiero a generar bases exhaustivas, perdurables y también adaptables tanto en el ámbito local como el internacional; sin embargo, aún se siguen analizando, probando, modificando e implementando planes, estrategias e ideas sobre el camino, lo cual no es

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Banking | Energy & Utilities | Government | Insurance

Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonFebruary 28, 2017 0

Analytics - helping your 'dots' tell their story

Does your data just look like a bunch of dots? Would you like to bring those dots to life so they can tell their story? This example shows how to make some voter-registration dots a bit more lifelike, so you can see what they're saying. You can apply the same

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Analytics

Mike F. SmithFebruary 28, 2017 0

2020 vision for utilities: What’s the prescription?

Do you remember the 90s? It seemed like every company and organization had some sort of strategic plan that had “2000” in its title. And they were all going to achieve and exceed these Year 2000 goals … if their systems didn’t crash at 12:00:01 on January 1, 2000! So

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics | Machine Learning | Risk Management

Analytics in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung

Christian EngelFebruary 28, 2017 0

Data Scientists im Gesundheitswesen – Chancen im morbiditätsorientierten Risikostrukturausgleich

Seit 2009 sollen der Gesundheitsfonds und der morbiditätsorientierte Risikostrukturausgleich in der deutschen gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) für eine ausgewogenere Verteilung der Einnahmen bei den Kassen sorgen. Ziel ist ein sozialer Ausgleich für unterschiedliche Einkommensstruktur und Krankheitslasten bei den Mitgliedern. Über einen sehr interessanten Nebeneffekt, den dieses regulatorische System ungewollt ausgelöst hat,

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Health Care | Hospitality | Insurance

Analytics | Data Management | Internet of Things

Internet of Things und Haferkekse

Christian GoßlerFebruary 27, 2017 0

Lenins Lächeln oder: Haferkekse im Internet of Trash (IoT2)

Lenin hatte gelächelt und von seinen Erfolgen im Internet of Things berichtet; richtig begeistert war er gewesen. – Aber jetzt murrt er: „Das ist alles Müll! Internet of Trash sollte es heißen! Die Daten stimmen nicht, die Leute schimpfen über das Projekt, der Fachbereich und meine Chefin sitzen mir im

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Energy & Utilities | Manufacturing

Analytics

Tim ClarkFebruary 27, 2017 0

Why quality is the answer to manufacturing challenges

Manufacturers are used to operating in challenging circumstances – whether financial, economic, political or competitive. And it's a good thing since the coming years seem likely to be as uncertain as those following the global economic crash. But manufacturing will have an excellent opportunity to thrive because, like many sectors,

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Analytics | Data Management | Risk Management

Self Service Analytics

Ulrike BergmannFebruary 24, 2017 0

Self-Service: Erst mal anfangen, dann klappt’s auch mit der Datenqualität!

Das Konzept von Self-Service Analytics wird oft mit innovativen Geschäftsmodellen oder schneller Reaktion auf Kundenanfragen assoziiert. Darüber hinaus kann Self-Service aber auch Mitarbeiter in die Lage versetzen, operative Vorgänge besser und effektiver zu unterstützen. Mit Carsten Krah, Business Expert Risk, Fraud & Compliance bei SAS, habe ich mich darüber unterhalten,

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Cindy WangFebruary 24, 2017 0

18 Visualizations created by SAS Visual Analytics

As a practitioner of visual analytics, I read the featured blog of ‘Visualizations: Comparing Tableau, SPSS, R, Excel, Matlab, JS, Python, SAS’ last year with great interest. In the post, the blogger Tim Matteson asked the readers to guess which software was used to create his 18 graphs. My buddy,

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Analytics | Data Management

Datenschutzgrundverordnung DSGVO

Andreas GöddeFebruary 23, 2017 0

DSGVO: Digitalisierungs-Killer oder Wettbewerbsvorteil?

Laut einer Dell-Studie zum Status der Umsetzung der neuen EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) haben erst 3 Prozent der befragten Unternehmen einen Umsetzungsplan. Ich hatte in den letzten zwei Wochen auf den SAS Veranstaltungen zur DSGVO unter dem Titel „Abwarten kann teuer werden" die Gelegenheit, mir hierzu von knapp 100 Teilnehmern selbst einen

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Helge S. RosebøFebruary 20, 2017 0

Lachs mit Eiscreme – und wie sieht Ihr Self-Service aus?

Self-Service Business Intelligence (BI) wartet mit einer ganzen Reihe von Vorteilen auf, einer der wichtigsten ist sicherlich Agilität. Doch gerade diese Agilität kommt manchmal der Governance eines Unternehmens in die Quere. Nicht selten passiert es, dass Anwender angesichts des blinkenden schönen Self-Service-Visualisierungstools die vereinbarten Regeln außer Acht lassen. Hier die

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Banking | Insurance | Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinFebruary 20, 2017 0

The distribution of colors for plain M&M candies

Many introductory courses in probability and statistics encourage students to collect and analyze real data. A popular experiment in categorical data analysis is to give students a bag of M&M® candies and ask them to estimate the proportion of colors in the population from the sample data. In some classes,

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Analytics

Mike GillilandFebruary 17, 2017 0

Guest blogger Koen Knapen on Kalman Filtering and Kalman Smoothing

While The BFD normally favors a lighter approach, with a focus on forecasting process (the politics and personalities therein), forecasting news, and forecasting gossip, we sometimes have to get serious. In this guest blogger post from Koen Knapen, Principal Consultant at SAS Belgium, Koen takes us into the netherworlds of

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Analytics | Data for Good | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Rory MacKenzieFebruary 17, 2017 0

Modern investigations: It’s not like the movies

I’ve always loved watching crime series or films – from Homeland and True Detective to Sherlock Holmes. But after years of building software products and solutions designed to help security and law enforcement agencies solve crimes, I've noticed there are several clichés that need to be conquered by technology. No.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonFebruary 16, 2017 0

Data wrangling - down the rabbit hole, and back again!

Are your friends passing around clever memes (supposedly) featuring something your favorite actor said, or sharing news articles that you think might be "fake news"? If there's even a hint of data analyst in you, then you probably check the actual data, and confirm or disprove the supposed facts yourself. I

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Contacto con gente real, una de las claves para Customer Experience

Gloria CaberoFebruary 14, 2017 0

Un amor de verdad: sin especulaciones ni falsas expectativas

En el día de San Valentín, el amor no siempre toca la puerta. Cuando esto ocurre en una organización del sector retail, resulta devastador: una tienda con mercancía ideal para la jornada —confitería, tarjetas, joyería, ropa y accesorios— que es ignorada por los enamorados. Una indiferencia que, en la industria

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Teri PatsilarasFebruary 14, 2017 0

Visualization Spotlight: Visual Analytics Designer 7.3 Word Cloud

In this post I wanted to shed some light on a visualization you may not be using enough: the Word Cloud. Word association exercises can often be a fun way to pass the time with friends, or it can trigger immediate action – just think of your email inbox and

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Analytics

Gloria CaberoFebruary 13, 2017 0

Cupido en los tiempos de la analítica

El amor, dicen los espíritus sensibles, no se puede colocar bajo un microscopio; dada su naturaleza emocional y profundamente humana, sería imposible examinarlo a partir de parámetros tradicionales. Aunque lo anterior debe ser cierto, la realidad es que el amor genera una gran gama de acciones que terminan por dejar

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonFebruary 13, 2017 0

Purging inactive voter registrations in North Carolina

After the recent presidential election, I was updating my graphs of the voter registration data and noticed that the number of registered voters decreased after the election. At first I thought that was odd, but then I realized that maybe inactive voters were being purged. I wanted to find out

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Natan MeekersFebruary 13, 2017 0

Boost your analytics: The rise of the citizen data scientist

Are you struggling to hire talented data scientists to glean insights from your corporate data? There’s currently a lack of big data talent hampering corporate analytics and causing nightmares for CIO’s, but I have good news for you: You may already have all the data scientists you need! There are

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Fraud Investigator

Stavros StavrinoudakisFebruary 9, 2017 0

A practical guide to tackle auto insurance fraud - Part 6: Fraud Investigator’s Interface

This is the sixth of the seven parts of blog post series “A practical guide to tackle auto insurance fraud”. In the first five articles of the series we drilled down to Data Management and Data Quality as the basis for fraud detection analytics, to Business Rules and Watch lists

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Superforecasting book cover

Mike GillilandFebruary 9, 2017 0

Show your forecasting skills in Good Judgment Open

Good Judgment® Open Ever wondered how good you are at forecasting? As a business forecaster, you can do the usual comparison against a naive model (and hopefully you are beating it!). You might also compare your forecast accuracy to published industry benchmarks -- although I would strongly recommend against this.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonFebruary 9, 2017 0

Visualizing 100 years of US presidential pardons

A topic that's been in the news a lot lately is the presidential power to grant pardons, commutations, and such. But all the articles I've seen just quoted numeric totals - I haven't seen a graph of the data anywhere! So I set out to find the data and graph

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Analytics | Data for Good

Georgia MarianiFebruary 9, 2017 0

Third-grade reading proficiency is key to reversing the “skills gap”

How important is reading to the skills gap? It's crucial. Through third grade, children are learning to read. After that, they read to learn. That is why reading proficiently by the end of third grade is one of the most reliable predictors of future success for children. Students who develop

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Christian GoßlerFebruary 8, 2017 0

Ein Bolschewik im Internet of Toasters (IoT)

Spitzbart und misstrauische Augen, – als säße mir Lenin gegenüber. Der Vertriebskollege spricht begeistert über das Internet of Things: Von Vision, Disruption und Revolution ist die Rede. Lenin hört mit ablehnend verschränkten Armen zu. Ich denke daran, was der Vertriebskollege im Taxi erzählt hat:

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