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Mike GillilandMarch 6, 2015 0

SAS analytics and forecasting news

♦We learned this week that SAS is ranked #4 on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2015. This makes six straight years ranking in the top four (including twice at #1). ♦The March/April 2015 issue of Analytics Magazine includes a SAS company profile by my colleague Kathy Lange. As

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Katherine ChinnMarch 6, 2015 0

How do you measure up against an Olympic athlete?

You may be intrigued to know how the average person compares to a gold medal winning Olympic athlete when it comes to things like height, body mass, resting heart rate, arm span, body fat etc. Or, perhaps more frightening, how you measure up? I know this will resonate with my

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Nadja YoungMarch 6, 2015 0

Using analytics to build pathways from K-12 to careers

Public educators have increasingly been told to produce the “workforce of the future.” States are striving for alignment between what students learn and the jobs that ultimately will be available to them. This alignment is critical for students so they have the right skills and knowledge to excel at college

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Mike GillilandMarch 5, 2015 0

Don't fine tune your forecast!

Does your forecast look like a radio? No? Then don't treat it like one. A radio's tuning knob serves a valid purpose. It lets you make fine adjustments, improving reception of the incoming signal, resulting in a clearer and more enjoyable listening experience. But just because you can make fine adjustments to

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonMarch 5, 2015 0

Making a 'fun' zip code map more useful

When I saw Robert Kosoro's cool ZIPScribble map, I knew I had to create a SAS version - and of course I had to add a few enhancements along the way.... I was perusing some of the examples on dadaviz.com, and Kosoro's ZIPScribble map caught my attention. It wasn't a particularly useful

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 4, 2015 0

Is North Carolina the new Hollywood!?!

You might be surprised at how many movies and TV shows are made in North Carolina - especially within the last few years. This blog provides a SAS graph that will make the list of films even easier to read! A recent story by the Tar Heel Traveler, and an exhibit

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics

SAS ColombiaMarch 4, 2015 0

Explore las razones por las cuales los gigantes usan Hadoop

Seguramente ya ha escuchado hablar sobre Hadoop y todas sus potentes capacidades, de no ser así, este sistema no es más que un marco para software de código abierto que permite almacenar y procesar grandes volúmenes de datos de forma distribuida en un gran número de productos de hardware. En

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SAS ColombiaFebruary 25, 2015 0

Analítica, la nueva protagonista de las pantallas de cine y televisión

‘Big Data’ y ‘Analytics’ son las palabras de moda en este momento, pero más allá de eso, conforman el conjunto de habilidades del futuro. Desde la lucha contra la delincuencia y el crimen hasta la creación de estrategias ganadoras para un equipo de béisbol, la analítica ha sido parte de la

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Karen TerrellFebruary 24, 2015 0

Big data and analytics demand a bigger skills commitment from the Federal Government

Despite an increase in the availability of data in the federal government over the past few years, data and analytics could be doing even more for federal agencies. A strategic approach to managing and analyzing the data is needed. And, like many technology challenges – that’s a people problem. A

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Leo SadovyFebruary 24, 2015 0

Charles (Dickens and Darwin) and continuous improvement

"You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error." ~ Tim Harford TED Talk link: http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford Karl Marx died thinking that the first communist revolution would occur in Great Britain, driven by the long hours and unsafe

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Mike GillilandFebruary 23, 2015 0

Offensive vs. defensive forecasting

Sports provide us with many familiar clichés about playing defense, such as: Defense wins championships. The best defense is a good offense. Or my favorite: The best defense is the one that ranks first statistically in overall defensive performance, after controlling for the quality of the offenses it has faced. Perhaps not

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 23, 2015 0

Tracking the increase in marijuana's THC content

After the legalization of recreational marijuana use in Colorado in 2012, it has been a much more frequent news topic than before - even from a data analysis perspective... I was recently looking for 'interesting' data to analyze with SAS, and I noticed some articles about the increasing potency of marijuana in

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 20, 2015 0

Visualizing the eradication of smallpox

Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1979, after an extensive vaccination campaign in the 19th and 20th centuries. This blog post contains a visual analysis of the final years of this disease in the US ... In my previous blog post, I imitated and improved infectious disease graphs from a recent Wall

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Analytics | Data Management

Craig RubendallFebruary 19, 2015 0

Why SAS joined the Open Data Platform (ODP) initiative

As the point person for SAS joining the new Open Data Platform (ODP) initiative, I want to make it clear why SAS is involved with ODP, and why we think it’s important to our customers, and the Hadoop and big data ecosystem as a whole. SAS is not in it to

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Mike GillilandFebruary 19, 2015 0

FVA interview with Shaun Snapp

The Institute of Business Forecasting's FVA blog series continued in January, with my interview of Shaun Snapp, founder and editor of SCM Focus. Some of Shaun's answers surprised me, for example, that he doesn't compare performance to a naïve model (which I see as the most fundamental FVA comparison). But he went

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David PopeFebruary 19, 2015 0

If it's not broken, why fix (or change) it?

How many of us have heard or even said the phrase, "If it's not broke, don't fix it." While on rare occasions this may be the correct approach, it is a statement that stops innovation and creativity in its tracks. You might as well say, "Because we've always done it that

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SAS ColombiaFebruary 18, 2015 0

Cuatro cosas que usted debe saber acerca del nuevo nivel de la analítica

La analítica de negocios se ha convertido en la solución ideal para empresas de los diversos sectores económicos, sin embargo, ha llegado el momento de que los países se apropien y lleven a cabo nuevos planes de profundización, especialización y educación en este campo. Ya no basta con saber que

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 17, 2015 0

How to make infectious diseases look better

The Wall Street Journal recently published some graphs about seven infectious diseases, and I tried using SAS to improve the graphs ... it's a veritable infectious disease (graph) bake-off! Let's start with Measles ... here's a screen-capture of WSJ's measles graph: In general, their graph is eye-catching, and I learned a lot

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Health Care | Life Sciences

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Mike GillilandFebruary 16, 2015 0

Brilliant forecasting article from 1957!!! (Part 3)

This isn't such a brilliant article because we learn something new from it -- we really don't. But it is amazing to find, from someone in 1957, such a clear discussion of forecasting issues that still plague us today. If you can get past some of the Mad Men era words and

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Mike GillilandFebruary 12, 2015 0

Brilliant forecasting article from 1957!!! (Part 2)

Combining Statistical Analysis with Subjective Judgment (continued) After summarily dismissing regression analysis and correlation analysis as panaceas for the business forecasting problem, Lorie turns next to "salesmen's forecasts."* He first echoes the assumption that we still hear today: This technique of sales forecasting has much to commend it. It is based

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Alan LipsonFebruary 12, 2015 0

Valentine’s Day: It’s not all about flowers and chocolate

Cupid is bearing down on me again, and I’m still only thinking about what gifts to give my wife and daughter for Valentine’s Day. At this point, I’m hoping for divine inspiration. Based on holiday shopping research we conducted in November, I’ve learned that the gifts women expect to receive

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Mike GillilandFebruary 11, 2015 0

Guest blogger: Len Tashman previews Winter 2015 issue of Foresight

*** We interrupt discussion of James H. Lorie's 1957 article with this important announcement *** Hot off the wire, here is editor Len Tashman's preview of the Winter 2015 issue of Foresight: Foresight kicks off its 10th year with the publication of a new survey of business forecasters: Improving Forecast Quality in

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Mike GillilandFebruary 9, 2015 0

Brilliant forecasting article from 1957!!!

Brilliant, humorous, and obscure. Those words could describe two of my favorite comedians, Emo Philips* and the late Dennis Wolfberg. They could also describe, with the addition of "exceedingly" brilliant, "scathingly" humorous, and "apparently totally" obscure, a 1957 article, "Two Important Problems in Sales Forecasting" by James H. Lorie (The

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Paula Henderson

Paula HendersonFebruary 6, 2015 0

Analytics making a difference in tax fraud: Kentucky protects taxpayer money, uncovers fraud schemes

According to a 2012 report, it was estimated that over the next five years the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will issue more than $20 billion in potentially fraudulent tax refunds. Figures like this do little to boost taxpayers’ confidence in our nation’s tax system. And tax fraud is not

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 6, 2015 0

Geographical hotspot visualization of election data

I'm ramping up my visualization skills in preparation for the next big election, and I invite you to do the same! Let's start by plotting some county-level election data on a map... To get you into the spirit of elections, here's a picture of my friend Sara's dad, when he was

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Stephen MistlerFebruary 5, 2015 0

Solving Sudoku with SAS/IML – Part 2

Part 1 of this topic presented a simple Sudoku solver. By treating Sudoku as an exact cover problem, the algorithm efficiently found solutions to simple Sudoku problems using basic logic. Unfortunately, the simple solver fails when presented with more difficult Sudoku problems. The puzzle on the right was obtained from

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SAS ColombiaFebruary 4, 2015 0

Seis tendencias que se imponen con la analítica de las cosas

¿Ha oído el viejo dicho, "sus ojos son más grandes que su estómago"? Esta es otra forma de decir que su apetito puede causar que usted llene su plato con más comida de la que en realidad puede comer. Actualmente, eso es lo que ha pasado con la combinación de

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Bryan SaundersFebruary 3, 2015 0

Event stream processing: Do you need it?

Staying competitive in a big data world means working fast and making decisions even faster. You need to assess conditions, approve access, stop transactions and reroute activities quickly so you can seize opportunities or prevent problems. With increasing data volumes from the Internet of Things (Cisco predicts that fifty billion

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 3, 2015 0

Which North Carolina state park is trending?

North Carolina is one of those lucky states that has a huge variety of scenic destinations, such as mountains, piedmont, coastal plains, beaches, and 'outer banks' islands. We have state parks in all of these areas, but can you guess which state park has been trending the most during the past

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Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 30, 2015 0

Is Google Fiber coming to your city?

Google recently announced that they will be adding Google Fiber high speed network and TV to my area. This was great news, because it will give us more choices ... and a little competition among providers tends to make them all 'try harder' to please the customer. :-) I was curious what other

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