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Jeff ZeanahJanuary 13, 2016 0

Making peace with storytelling and analytics

A number of years ago I was driving home to Alabama for the holidays. Typical of the season the driving was not easy. It was getting dark early and the traffic was fairly heavy. I had the radio on to pass the time. A talk show was on and the

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 11, 2016 0

Need help picking lottery numbers?

What strategy do you use to pick your lottery numbers? Do you suspect that the future winning numbers might be somehow related to the past winning numbers? If so, this blog's for you! The Powerball lottery jackpot is up to about $1.4 billion - the largest lottery jackpot there has

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Government | Sports & Entertainment

Analytics

SAS ColombiaDecember 28, 2015 0

Bancolombia, caso de éxito por uso de soluciones analíticas

¿Cuándo ampliar el cupo de una tarjeta de crédito, ofrecer un crédito o llamar la atención de un cliente por haberse pasado en el pago de alguna obligación? Todas estas son decisiones que los bancos están tomando cada vez con mayor inteligencia y que les están permitiendo ofrecer mejores productos

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 23, 2015 0

Is holiday spending up or down?

I was reading through Deloitte University Press' 2015 Holiday Spending survey - the results were interesting, but their graph made you jump through mental hoops to understand the data. So of course I used SAS to create a simpler version of the graph, so you'll have more time for holiday shopping!

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Retail

Analytics

Nicole TschauderDecember 23, 2015 0

Wetter - bleiben die Wege schneefrei? (SAS Adventskalender 23. Türchen)

Der letzte Tag vor Heiligabend! Die Farbe an ein paar wenigen Geschenken trocknet noch, die letzten Geschenke werden verpackt und die letzten Schleifen gebunden. Ein letztes Mal setzt sich das Christkind mit seinen Auslieferungs-Engeln zusammen. Wird das Wetter mitspielen? Unsere bisherigen Themen: Business Analytics allgemein (1), Vergangenes analysieren – Künftiges

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 16, 2015 0

Release the fourth one first, they did!

If you're just a casual Star Wars fan, you might be confused about the order of the movies. Here's a SAS graph that will help you make sense of it all, before Episode VII comes out this week! If you'd like to see how I created this custom graph, here's a

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Sports & Entertainment

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Mike GillilandDecember 11, 2015 0

Worst practices in forecasting conference (October 5-6, 2016)

In conjunction with the International Institute of Forecasters and the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University, the 2016 Foresight Practitioner conference will be held in Raleigh, NC (October 5-6, 2016) with the theme of: Worst Practices in Forecasting: Today's Mistakes to Tomorrow's Breakthroughs This is the first

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Analytics

Kay MeyerDecember 11, 2015 0

Hey, government of [insert state], where's your Center of Analytics?

Imagine trying to make the right decision for a child in protective custody if your information was limited only to what was reported to your department about a single incident. Without additional information about the child’s home environment, health and education, criminal background of adults in the child’s life, and

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Government

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Mike GillilandDecember 10, 2015 0

Why forecasting is important (even if not highly accurate)

"Why forecasting is important" gets searched over 100 times monthly on Google. Search results include plenty of rah-rah articles touting the obvious benefits of an "accurate forecast," but are of little help in the real life business world where high levels of forecast accuracy are usually not achieved. This is

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Management

SAS ColombiaDecember 10, 2015 0

Cinco beneficios de implementar una estrategia de Data Management que usted debe conocer

Data, números, conocimiento. Es indudable que en un mundo cada vez más conectado el conocimiento es el rey y la data su poder. Pero, ¿es suficiente con tener acceso a la información o también se requiere su buena administración? Esta respuesta es simple: de nada sirve almacenar millones de bits

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Analytics

Nicole TschauderDecember 10, 2015 0

Textanalyse - was ist ein Ber ? (SAS Adventskalender 10.Tür)

Wer es von Ihnen, liebe Leser, bis hierhin geschafft hat, herzlichen Glückwunsch! Und auch vielen Dank an die Engel, denn die rackern sich gerade ganz schön ab. Während wir uns innerlich auf den 24. Dezember vorbereiten und gemütlicher werden, drehen die Engel nochmals richtig auf. Heute überführt ein Algorithmus ein

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 9, 2015 0

How do your favorite SNL cast members stack up?

Saturday Night Live has been on television for about as long as most of us have been old enough to stay up and watch it (since 1975). Therefore, when I saw that Rolling Stone had ranked all the cast members throughout the show's history, I knew this was going to

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Sports & Entertainment

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Mike GillilandDecember 7, 2015 0

Know your forecastability (and maybe save your job)

Journal of Business Forecasting columnist Larry Lapide is a longtime favorite of mine. As an industry analyst at AMR, and more recently as an MIT Research Affiliate, Larry's quarterly column is a perpetual source of guidance for the practicing business forecaster. No wonder he received IBF's 2012 Lifetime Achievement in

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Mike GillilandDecember 4, 2015 0

FOBFD Greg Fishel makes headlines on climate change

WRAL Chief Meteorologist (and Friend Of the Business Forecasting Deal) Greg Fishel garnered national attention recently with a thoughtful (yet to some, provocative) blog post on climate change. In the post, Fishel chronicled his evolving thought on the subject. He argued for an end to the political partisanship that stifles

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Analytics

Robert BlanchardDecember 2, 2015 0

Top three reasons to become a data scientist

Data science is hot. You've undoubtedly heard a lot about the field and the role of the data scientist, now it's time to learn more. So, here are the top three reasons to become a data scientist. 1 – For the enjoyment of creating and building new “things” No, data scientists do not

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 1, 2015 0

Where is your favorite wine made?

Here in the US, California is known as "wine country" - but I was wondering what other states make wine, and whether there have been any big changes in recent years. This seemed like a good excuse for some graphical analytics... My previous blog analyzed where various Thanksgiving foods were produced. I was

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Manufacturing

Analytics

Elizabeth BautistaDecember 1, 2015 0

CEO’s, las mejores decisiones se basan en datos

Como CEO usted está lleno de preocupaciones y ocupaciones, sin embargo una de las situaciones que a todas las empresas les quita el sueño es la gestión adecuada en su cadena de suministro. ¿Y es que acaso sí llevamos eficientemente la planificación, organización y control de cada una de las

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Analytics

Kay MeyerNovember 30, 2015 0

The intersection of open & internal government data

Government organizations are seeking new and innovative ways to use an abundance of data – both internally for government operations and externally to provide the public with greater access to information. This intersection of open and internal government data is the topic of a Route Fifty webinar taking place on

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Government

Analytics | Data for Good | Students & Educators

Nadja YoungNovember 25, 2015 0

How does a highly effective teacher unlock student potential?

“(Teaching) is an incredible opportunity to be a catalyst for what we want the future to be," says Shannon Hardy, a 21-year math and science teacher from The Exploris School, a Wake County charter school in Raleigh, NC. Ms. Hardy uses data not just as a summative measurement tool, but

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Education | Government

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

SAS ColombiaNovember 23, 2015 0

ANALÍTICA DE LAS COSAS: OPORTUNIDAD Y RETO

Unos 30 mil millones de dispositivos estarán conectados al Internet de las Cosas para el 2020*. También se estima que para finales de 2015, el mercado de dispositivos con capacidad de conectarse a internet a través de protocolo IP, crecerá unos 6 mil millones de dólares. Estas cifras impresionan. Sin

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Analytics | Data for Good

Will JonesNovember 23, 2015 0

Child protection agencies lagging in use of analytics to protect kids

What happened to the adage, "What gets measured, gets done"? Though progress is being made, there are too many child protection agencies that have yet to understand the profound impact data-informed policy and practice have on performance outcomes, as well as staff retention and satisfaction. Without dipping deep into the

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Government

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Jen DunhamNovember 19, 2015 0

Internal fraud: Rogue employees, biased procurement officers, and outright thieves

John Beale was one of the highest paid government employees. A 10-year veteran of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Beale defrauded the Federal Government of nearly $1M in employment wages and fraudulent travel. Beale came under suspicion after it was noticed that the he was still being paid wages 19

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Government

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonNovember 19, 2015 0

Who to thank for your Thanksgiving food

Here in the US, we've got the Thanksgiving holiday coming up soon. And the keystone of this holiday is a big dinner, with lots of traditional Thanksgiving foods. But where does all this food come from, and which farmers should we thank for which of the food items? I use SAS

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Carl HammersburgNovember 18, 2015 0

Cyber barbarians are at the gates! Analytics can help

Barbarians are relentless, and they are inside the gates! That didn't go well for the Romans, and they had the most advanced technologies of their day. So how do we do better against the relentless waves of cyber barbarians attacking virtually everywhere? The answer to that is analytics, which offers early

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Government

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Michael DavisNovember 18, 2015 0

Medical identity fraud isn’t just expensive, it can be deadly

Identity fraud typically conjures thoughts of credit card scams or stolen Social Security numbers. Medical identity fraud is often overlooked, but can be a crime that kills. On the black market your medical identity can be worth as much as $50 per person versus $1 for a Social Security Number.

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Government

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Shaun BarryNovember 17, 2015 0

What's all the fuss about identity quizzes?

Identity quizzes are a hot topic among fraud fighters, and particularly so among tax administrators. A quick web search finds that a lot of state tax agencies use quizzes to fight refund fraud, including Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio. Even the IRS has gotten into the game. In reading the press

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Government

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Ricky D. Sluder, CFENovember 13, 2015 0

Why Excel isn’t the solution for health care fraud, waste and abuse investigations

To prepare for the data challenges of 2015 and beyond, health care fraud, waste and abuse investigative units (government funded and commercial insurance plans, alike) need a data management infrastructure that provides access to data across programs, products and channels. This goes well beyond sorting and filtering small sets of

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Government | Health Care

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Greg HendersonNovember 13, 2015 0

You can’t talk international fraud without mentioning cybersecurity

International Fraud Awareness Week begins on Monday, and you know what that means. Our intrepid team of fraud experts is taking over the State and Local Connection blog! Fellow bloggers, get ready. Each day next week one member of the SAS Fraud and Security Intelligence team will post on a

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Government

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonNovember 13, 2015 0

How to build a customized voter registration data viewer

With a major election coming next year, I was wondering if there have been any shifts & changes in the voters in my state. This seems like an interesting opportunity for some data analysis, eh!?! To get you into the spirit of elections, here's an "I Voted" sticker from my friend

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Government

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