Analytics

小林 泉June 29, 2018 0

SAS Global Forum ユーザーおよびSAS社員による最新のSAS活用ノウハウ

SASの提供する機能、製品、コーディング上の利用の仕方、便利なSASマクロ等々は非常に幅広く、日々お客様と接している我々であっても全ての情報を持つことはできません。そのため、我々はWWのSAS利用ナレッジをこのSAS Global Forumにおける発表論文に頼ることが頻繁にあり、社内のナレッジシェアリングで参照することもしばしばです。f 今年4月に開催されたSAS Global Forum 2018の発表資料／論文を検索 2017以前の発表資料／論文を検索 なんと1976年からあります！ 是非、ご活用いただければと思います。

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJune 28, 2018 0

What's the electricity bill for your air conditioner this summer?

During these hot summers in the southern US, many people regard Willis Carrier (the man who invented modern air conditioning) as a saint. But along with the comfortable indoor temperatures comes the high electricity bill at the end of the month. And how much does the electricity cost? That's a difficult

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics

Georgia MarianiJune 28, 2018 0

How are data visualization and analytics used in higher education?

We hear a lot about how various industries are using data visualization and analytics. But what about the education industry? The institutional research office (IR) at universities is the center for data, reports and analytics and provides decision makers with information about the university. The IR teams are working on

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Education

Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Internet of Things | Machine Learning

Max ArdigòJune 27, 2018 0

Machine learning to (re)learn about the consumer's genome

An interview with Gaetano Giannetto, CEO of Epipoli/Groupalia Transparency and quality of algorithms will form the basis of a new alliance and a new balance between companies and their customers. “Data intelligence becomes a competitive advantage only if you’re able to use it,” according to Gaetano Giannetto, CEO of Epipoli,

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Retail

Analytics

David PopeJune 27, 2018 0

Analytics use cases for utilities: Assets and operations

Our company talks to utilities all over the world about the value of analytics. We help utility executives understand what the "digital utility company" looks like and share use cases to illustrate how these companies are using analytics across: assets and operations; customers; portfolio, and corporate operations (see diagram below).

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJune 27, 2018 0

Reduced models: A way to choose initial parameters for a mixed model

This article describes how to obtain an initial guess for nonlinear regression models, especially nonlinear mixed models. The technique is to first fit a simpler fixed-effects model by replacing the random effects with their expected values. The parameter estimates for the fixed-effects model are often good initial guesses for the

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Mauricio GonzálezJune 26, 2018 0

Para ser inteligente, su empresa debe aprender primero

Para desarrollar nuestra inteligencia, los seres humanos tenemos que aprender. Comenzamos por percibir el entorno, perfeccionar nuestras capacidades de comunicación (hablar, leer, transmitir pensamientos abstractos) y absorber una gran cantidad de conocimientos a medida que crecemos. La máquinas y computadoras siguen un camino parecido. Para que Siri o Alexa, por

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Lee Ann DietzJune 26, 2018 0

Living in a model smart city in Cary, NC

I have lived in the Town of Cary for more than twenty years; two of my three children were born at the local WakeMed Cary Hospital. I’m a big fan of my city, or town as it prefers to be called – even though the population is over 160,000. That’s

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Analytics | Risk Management

Peter PlochanJune 25, 2018 0

The Emergence of Enterprise Model Risk Management

Model risk management (MRM) is not a new topic; financial institutions have been relying on models to support their decision making for decades. Recently, however, the MRM discipline has become more formalised and rigorous. Regulatory activities, such as the recent European Banking Authority's (EBA) Targeted Review of Internal Models, require

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Banking

Analytics | SAS Events

Javier Alexander RengifoJune 25, 2018 0

La complejidad es una fuente de soluciones

Una sucursal bancaria y un campo de fútbol. Un contragolpe y una compra de cartera. Los nuevos banqueros y las estrellas nacientes del balompié. Parecen palabras apenas puestas juntas, elementos de dos mundos muy diferentes, comparaciones imposibles. Sin embargo, durante la 4ª Convención Latinoamericana de Analítica organizada por SAS en

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Banking | Communications | Government

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Dan MitchellJune 25, 2018 0

How are retailers using real-time analytics to improve customer experience?

Retailers don’t need to be reminded about the importance of customer experience. It’s critical – and that’s been true since the dawn of retail. But the nature of that experience has been changing at a rapid clip in recent years, due in large part to well-documented shifts in technology and

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Retail

Analytics

Rick WicklinJune 25, 2018 0

Use a grid search to find initial parameter values for regression models in SAS

When you fit nonlinear fixed-effect or mixed models, it is difficult to guess the model parameters that fit the data. Yet, most nonlinear regression procedures (such as PROC NLIN and PROC NLMIXED in SAS) require that you provide a good guess! If your guess is not good, the fitting algorithm,

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Javier Alexander RengifoJune 22, 2018 0

Mitigar el riesgo, una prioridad para las compañías en la economía digital

La economía digital surgió a raíz del avance de la tecnología en la informática y las telecomunicaciones. El último Modelo de Gestión de Riesgos de Seguridad Digital entregado por el Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones -MinTIC-, afirma que en los últimos 20 años el acceso a

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Banking | Communications | Government

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Augusta LonghiJune 22, 2018 0

5 principles to drive better customer experiences

What does it take to get customer experience right? We can probably all agree that it starts with data, and that means good data. Data holds clues about what your customers want, how they feel, how they like to engage with your brand, how often they want to be in

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Analytics | Data Management

Lee ThorpeJune 21, 2018 0

IFRS 17 – the long road to compliance

When your industry is going to be turned on its head by something, the sooner you can start planning – or at least thinking about it – the better. The new International Financial Reporting Standard 17 (IFRS 17) will come into force in January 2021, and it’s set to completely

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Insurance

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJune 21, 2018 0

Tableplots and ACS data

A question recently popped up in a discussion forum about creating table plots using SAS. So I thought I'd dabble in this topic, and see what I could come up with. If you're interested in tableplots, or American Community Survey (ACS) data, or data visualization, I invite you to follow

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Government

Analytics

David PopeJune 20, 2018 0

Analytics use cases for utilities: Corporate operations

Our company talks to utilities all over the world about the value of analytics. We like to talk about "the digital utility" and break down analytics use cases across: assets and operations; customers; portfolio; and corporate operations. I plan to highlight a few analytics use cases for utilities across these four areas

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJune 20, 2018 0

The bootstrap method in SAS: A t test example

A previous article provides an example of using the BOOTSTRAP statement in PROC TTEST to compute bootstrap estimates of statistics in a two-sample t test. The BOOTSTRAP statement is new in SAS/STAT 14.3 (SAS 9.4M5). However, you can perform the same bootstrap analysis in earlier releases of SAS by using

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Analytics

Andrés Mauricio TorresJune 19, 2018 0

El de 2018 es un Mundial de Analítica

Además de ser un recurso de gran impacto para las compañías, se ha demostrado que el análisis de datos también es importante para el sector deportivo. Equipos de fútbol, béisbol, básquetbol y hockey están adoptando la analítica de SAS para, por ejemplo, acercarse más a su fanaticada. Por ser un

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Charlie ChaseJune 19, 2018 0

Will artificial intelligence replace humans?

We have entered the “second machine age.” The first machine age began with the industrial revolution, which was driven primarily by technology innovation. The ability to generate massive amounts of mechanical power made humans more productive. Where the steam engine started the industrial revolution, the second machine age has taken

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Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Christopher GhenneJune 18, 2018 0

Analytics to the rescue

The future of successful compliance will go through extremely skilled data scientists, who will become heroes in your organisation. Human instinct and analytics will help uncover financial crime together. For the last 15 years, banks and other financial institutions have been deploying AML and CFT solutions. In Europe, in line

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Banking

Analytics

Reece CliffordJune 18, 2018 0

The science behind the beautiful game

It won’t have escaped your attention that a sporting event has just kicked off in Russia; 32 teams and 732 players will be watched by billions of fans before one team earns the right to be crowned world champions. We now know the groups, and the roadmap to the final

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJune 18, 2018 0

SAS analytics for the Gorge Downwind Champs race

Ever since the Moneyball book & movie came out, athletes have been scrambling to use data and analytics to gain a competitive advantage. One of my favorite sports is boat racing - the ones you paddle. Follow along as I lead you through some maps and graphs I created for

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics

Joanna BieniekJune 18, 2018 0

Navigate Change with Analytics - SAS Forum Poland 2018

39 presenters, 39 presentations, 300 minutes of sharing knowledge and experience and 200 minutes of entertainment for over 800 attendees from business, government and academic circles.

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Analytics | Data for Good

Steve KearneyJune 18, 2018 0

Data for Good: How Analytics Can Help the Opioid Crisis

A person in the United States dies every 15 minutes because of substance use disorder. The number has doubled in the past 10 years as the crisis continues to grow in severity, especially in rural areas with high unemployment. Using analytics to map the growth of opioid deaths shows the

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Government

Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinJune 18, 2018 0

The BOOTSTRAP statement for t tests in SAS

Bootstrap resampling is a powerful way to estimate the standard error for a statistic without making any parametric assumptions about its sampling distribution. The bootstrap method is often implemented by using a sequence of calls to resample from the data, compute a statistic on each sample, and analyze the bootstrap

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence | Machine Learning

Shaun BarryJune 15, 2018 0

Machine Learning predicts victory for Spain. Fraud fighters should pay attention!

“Machine Learning” is a trendy term being kicked around (pun intended) by fraud fighters around the world. In fact, Machine Learning is such a popular term that it is becoming a staple in buzzword bingo games. Here’s a little secret about machine learning… many of the people who talk about

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Energy & Utilities | Government | Health Care

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Dariusz JańczukJune 15, 2018 0

Defining and exploring customer intelligence

Analysing data collected from customers allows companies to build a better understanding of customer behaviour. This enables businesses to contact customers in a more intelligent way and provide highly personalised, relevant messages. This sounds simple, but how does it work in practice?

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Mary OsborneJune 15, 2018 0

4 ways to visualize climate changes in the oceans and the Arctic

Many things in nature can be seen as chain reactions. When one action occurs, others follow suit. For example, atmospheric greenhouse gas levels are increasing, which leads to a warming of the oceans. As the oceans warm, weather and climate patterns across the globe are impacted because the amount of

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJune 15, 2018 0

Cremation rates in the US, by state

I recently read an interesting article that claims "a single cremation emits as much carbon dioxide as a 1,000-mile car trip." This got me wondering about cremation data, and I ended up on the Wikipedia page about cremation rates. They had a map of the US cremation rates by state ... but the more

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