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Jennifer MarchiJuly 23, 2013 0

Three more reasons to like visual analytics

We know that it is a struggle to gain insight from massive amounts of data. Businesses need the value that analytics provide and want to include analytics in day-to-day decision making in order to gain insights and improve business performance. Data visualization and reporting are like the “easy button” for businesses

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Jennifer MarchiJuly 18, 2013 0

Data visualization with a Hollywood ending

We’ve all seen those climactic movie scenes, where the hero of the story figures out how to “save the day” with only minutes to spare. Imagine a rogue CIA operative dashing into a situation room with the last-ditch information that averts nuclear war – and, as always, succeeding. Nothing says

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Analytics

Laurie McCabeJuly 15, 2013 0

Getting results: How SMBs are using data and insights to get ahead

In the first two posts in this series, Seeing the Light: How SMBs are Using Data and Insights to Get Ahead, I shared the motivations that prompted three SMBs to replace spreadsheets and intuition with a more sophisticated, analytics-driven approach to run their businesses. In the second, I discussed the

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Analytics | Data Management

Leo SadovyJuly 9, 2013 0

WYSIATI – Thinking, fast, slow and analytically

I’ve got a book recommendation for you – it came recommended to me and did not disappoint. “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, by Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman. Kahneman is actually a psychologist (Professor emeritus at Princeton Univ), and his Nobel Prize winning work on decision theory will also remind

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Analytics

Catherine TruxilloJuly 8, 2013 0

Five myths about unstructured data and five good reasons you should be analyzing it

“How can we begin to make sense of the unstructured data, when we still don’t make the most of our structured data?” said the exasperated senior manager from a large retail firm. One of the great pleasures of my job is the relationship with students that continues after class has

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Analytics

Mary OsborneJuly 2, 2013 0

The path from standard to innovation with visual analytics

The path to innovation isn’t canned. It’s not formulaic. It involves taking calculated risks and (as much as I hate this cliché) out-of-the-box thinking. It involves creativity and the eagerness to explore ideas. Notice I didn’t say new ideas. Sometimes innovation is more about re-purposing or reworking old ideas into

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Analytics

David PopeJune 21, 2013 0

Advanced analytics can help engineers think outside of the box (literally)

Engineers who implement process control can use analytics to think outside the of box. Better yet, they can use analytics to help solve the issues and risks associated with being inside the box or outside the box in the first place. Read on to learn what box I'm referring to

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Analytics

Laurie McCabeJune 20, 2013 0

Key considerations: How SMBs are using data and insights to get ahead

In the first post in this series, Seeing the Light: How SMBs are Using Data and Insights to Get Ahead, I shared the motivations that prompted three SMBs (BGF Industries, Oberweis Dairy and Twiddy & Company) to replace spreadsheets and intuition with a more sophisticated, analytics-driven approach. But what factors

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Analytics

Bill ColemanJune 17, 2013 0

Data integration, holistic view of municipal data can show neighborhoods in decline

Imagine a business offering a multitude of products and services that seemingly have little relationship to one another, and all are supported by different data systems. This is the plight of local governments. The products and services produced and managed by local governments range from utilities, solid waste and recycling to parks

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Anne-Lindsay BeallJune 14, 2013 0

Visualizing big data: see it in sascom magazine (now on your tablet)

Big data. It’s still the hottest topic going – and making it pay off continues to be a challenge. According to a recent IDG Research survey, organizations’ biggest big data headaches are: 1) lack of skills needed to run analysis and 2) difficulty in making data available to users for

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Jan-Ole RomannJune 11, 2013 0

Erfolgsfaktor Analytics - die neue Vielfalt erleben

Auf dem SAS Forum 2013 am 11. und 12. September in Mannheim erleben Sie Analytics live – an 2 Tagen mit mehr als 70 Beiträgen und zahlreichen Gelegenheiten zum persönlichen Austausch mit Branchenkennern, Fachspezialisten und Analytics-Experten.

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Analytics

Leo SadovyJune 11, 2013 0

Value pricing – You can’t get there from “Cost-plus”

Do we ever really get pricing right? Sometimes we do, and some of those times are actually on purpose, but it takes a lot of upstream activities to go right in order for pricing to be optimal as well. Too often pricing is that last variable at our disposal when

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Analytics | Data Management

Mike NemecekJune 11, 2013 0

Big data = big value

In Amsterdam, harnessing the power of the (data) tide With more than 100 km of canals and 1,500 bridges, dikes and dams, Amsterdam has long been in tune with the tides. Today, as an economic tide tugs at Europe and many regions, organizations are coping with a flood of data

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Analytics

Laurie McCabeJune 5, 2013 0

Seeing the light: How SMBs are using data and insights to get ahead

At a time when information is proliferating at an unprecedented rate, companies that can effectively gather, create and use information can gain dramatic market advantages over those that don’t. SMB Group’s 2012 Routes to Market Study shows that SMBs that have deployed business intelligence and analytics solutions are 51% more

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Analytics | Data Management | Data Visualization

Kristine VickMay 29, 2013 0

Seven steps to deploying visual analytics

As a marketer interested in analyzing my campaign data visually, I recently had a chance to slow down and read this TDWI checklist report entitled “Seven Steps to Deploying Visual Analytic for Improving Actionable Insight” by Dave Stodder, Director of TDWI Research for Business Intelligence. What it helped me understand is

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Anna BrownMay 24, 2013 0

Where do you draw the line (graph)?

The Data Visualization Charting 101 seriesexplores different tools to visualize data. Check out other posts to see which data visualization is right for you. My grandmother often used the saying “as the crow flies” when giving directions, referring to a straight line being the shortest distance between two points. When

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Analytics

Alison BolenMay 22, 2013 0

Big data knows, even if you don't!

What does big data know that you don't? It could be a new source of revenue, a budding consumer trend or ... something sinister! Find out what big data knows in this funny but telling video spot: Look familiar? Do you know that guy? Share this funny big data video

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Analytics

Scott BatchelorMay 22, 2013 0

How an NBA team flexed its analytics muscles – and won

Two years ago, Brad Pitt starred in Moneyball, an Academy Award-nominated story about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane bringing the power of advanced analytics to the sport. Beane wasn’t the first to use statistical analytics to build a successful team and keep its payroll in check. Baseball and political

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Analytics

David PopeMay 20, 2013 0

Analytics, the ultimate renewable resource

The value of analytics to solve multiple business problems really makes analytics the ultimate reusable business investment, or as they say in the energy industry, it may be called a renewable resource. As I've commented before, organizations spend billions of dollars on storing data, and unless you happen to be a

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Anna BrownMay 17, 2013 0

Scatter plots for scatter brains

The Data Visualization Charting 101 series explores different tools to visualize data. Check out other posts to see which data visualization is right for you. Have so much data that your head is spinning? If you have a lot of data that needs to be visualized, a scatter plot, aka

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Jennifer MarchiMay 15, 2013 0

Do you see what I see: a real-world data visualization

What do you see when you look at the picture to the right? Like you, I see a busy dad with his daughter trying to maneuver a shopping cart full of groceries! But the real question: is there more? What do you really see? In a business setting, depending on

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Analytics

Alison BolenMay 14, 2013 0

Big data is back ... and he has a mail cart

A few weeks ago, we asked, "What would big data say if it could talk?" Today, we might ask, "What if big data had a mail cart?!" It's a fun metaphor that shows how overwhelming big data can be without a strategy for managing it. Watch the short video below

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Shannon HeathMay 13, 2013 0

Beyond the lobby doors: 4 ways SAS is like Stark Industries

It seems like only yesterday that the SAS Executive Briefing Center (EBC) parking lot was filled with Craft Services tents, high-end luxury cars, movie cameras and, oh, a few celebrities. But, it’s been nearly a year since SAS became Stark Industries for a day when parts of Iron Man 3

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Jennifer MarchiMay 8, 2013 0

Once a geek, always a geek – and by the way geeks are totally cool!

I’m a geek at heart – I always have been and I always will be. I love technology and I love math. I love that my job combines both. But you know what is even better? In today’s world of big data and data visualization, it is totally fashionable to

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Philip MaleMay 8, 2013 0

The first data visualisation?

As a boy growing up in the 1970s, I was fascinated in particular by dinosaurs. I knew all their names, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Diplodocus, Triceratops etc. And I could also remember in which geological time period they lived, and on which continent; and what they ate, often each other of course!

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Analytics

Leo SadovyMay 7, 2013 0

Innovation in infrastructure – pairing possibility with return

A question was recently put to me by everyone’s favorite futurist – Thornton May: “Most people don't put innovation and infrastructure in the same sentence. They simply tend to view savings derived from optimized infrastructure as a funding source for “other” innovation investments. My thoughts?” My thoughts initially circled in

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Analytics

Becky GraebeMay 6, 2013 0

What is the future of big data in health care?

Big data might be daunting, but Matthew J. Becker, Senior Director and Global Head of Statistical Programming at inVentive Health Clinical, says the goal remains simple for those in health care and life sciences: cure disease and improve health outcomes. Speaking last week at SAS Global Forum, Becker noted that

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Alison BolenMay 5, 2013 0

Big names talk big products

When users attend SAS Global Forum, they often look forward to hearing from the big names of SAS. To name a few: CEO Jim Goodnight, VP and CMO Jim Davis, and Co-Founder John Sall. Inside SAS Global Forum caught up with these busy executives on the demo floor to talk about SAS

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