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Analytics | Data Management

Todd WrightMarch 17, 2020 0

Past, present and future ... it's always been about data management

Data management has never been the shiny object that caught the imagination of the mainstream. And let’s be honest, it's not nearly as interesting as analytics, machine learning or artificial intelligence. In fact, entire movies get created about analytics, and people actually pay to see them! Data management? Not so

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinMarch 16, 2020 0

Predict a random integer: The tradeoff between bias and variance

Books about statistics and machine learning often discuss the tradeoff between bias and variance for an estimator. These discussions are often motivated by a sophisticated predictive model such as a regression or a decision tree. But the basic idea can be seen in much simpler situations. This article presents a

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Analytics

Mike GillilandMarch 13, 2020 0

The difficult step in effecting forecasting process change (2 of 2)

Fildes and Goodwin (F&G) observed the subject (the regional subsidiary of a pharmaceutical company) was using a statistical forecasting system, but not fully trusting its output. Forecasters were making overrides to the system generated forecast to make it look like what they believed it should (e.g., following a life-cycle curve

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Management

Del viñedo a nuestra mesa: La ruta del vino es impactada por la analítica

Juan Sebastián Niño

Juan Sebastián NiñoMarch 13, 2020 0

Del viñedo a nuestra mesa: La ruta del vino es impactada por la analítica

Hace algunas semanas les contábamos algunos de los secretos que están utilizando los grandes del retail en Latinoamérica para mejorar la planificación de la demanda. Lo hacíamos con base en ejemplos presentados durante el NRF 2020, para muchos el principal evento de innovación y tecnología aplicadas al sector retail o

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Analytics

Regular polygons approximate a circle

Rick WicklinMarch 11, 2020 0

Polygons, pi, and linear approximations

Recently, I saw a graphic on Twitter by @neilrkaye that showed the rapid convergence of a regular polygon to a circle as you increase the number of sides for the polygon. The author remarked that polygons that have 40 or more sides "all look like circles to me." That is,

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Overview of COVID-19 disease outbreak, including the number of confirmed new cases, recovered cases and deaths from the virus filtered by geographic location.

Mark LambrechtMarch 10, 2020 0

Using data visualization to track the coronavirus outbreak

In the early days and weeks of any widespread global health concern, particularly in a fast-moving outbreak like the coronavirus, there are many unknowns. Data visualization can be a good starting point to understand trends and piece data points together into a meaningful story. The ability to visualize the spread

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Analytics

Gloria CaberoMarch 6, 2020 0

Mujeres en analítica, rompiendo paradigmas

Escuchamos con frecuencia que las mujeres se están empoderando. Las vemos asumiendo roles de liderazgo en prácticamente todas las disciplinas: política, economía, investigación, astronomía, literatura y tecnología, por mencionar sólo algunas. Se podría afirmar que hoy sus capacidades laborales e intelectuales compiten a la par de las de sus contrapartes

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Analytics

Mary OsborneMarch 6, 2020 0

Why are fewer women getting computer science degrees?

While I am a woman in computer science, let me start by saying that I’m a reluctant coder. I have an eye for data but find the abstract nature of many computer languages to be very challenging and not something I typically love. My first experience with coding was in

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Analytics

Mike GillilandMarch 5, 2020 0

The difficult step in effecting forecasting process change (1 of 2)

Two weeks ago we looked at the first two steps in effecting forecasting process change: Justify your suspicions with data Communicate your findings That was the easy part. So why is it that so many organization realize they have a forecasting problem, yet are unable to do anything about it?

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Analytics

Ashley BinderMarch 5, 2020 0

50 years of strong, intelligent women

Fifty years ago, as the women’s liberation movement was gaining momentum in the U.S., my maternal great-grandmother, Pearl, worked in a factory sewing American flags while volunteering with the Girl Scouts and caring for her grandchildren. My paternal grandmother, Greta, also worked in local factories while caring for her family.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence | Data Visualization

Suneel GroverMarch 4, 2020 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: Marketing AI vision

Your brand is customer journey obsessed, and every interaction with your company provides a potential opportunity to make an intelligent decision, deepen engagement and meet conversion goals. The hype of martech innovation in 2020 is continuing to elevate, and every technology vendor is claiming the following statement: "Bolster the customer

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Analytics

Natalia Summerville

Natalia SummervilleMarch 4, 2020 0

Breast milk, babies, NCSU students and SAS/OR

I'm a planner, and my plan was to have a completely natural birth and to breast feed only. This plan was written in stone (or so I thought). Long story short – my birthing plan flew out the window. One of my complications was very high blood pressure, which refused

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good | Machine Learning

Oliver Schabenberger

Oliver SchabenbergerMarch 3, 2020 0

Improving lives through better decisions

The endpoint of analytics is not a report or an alert. The endpoint is a decision. Often those decisions are related to your business and you make them to reduce risks, improve production or satisfy customers. In health care, however, the decisions made with analytics can be a matter of

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Analytics

Greg HorneMarch 2, 2020 0

Why analytic interoperability matters in health care

Let’s face it. Data sharing between platforms in health care just isn’t easy. Patient data privacy concerns, incompatible file formats, asynchronous identifiers … I’ve heard it all. From the electronic health record (EHR), picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to discrete processes like pharmacy or departmental information systems, achieving some

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Analytics

Brent LasterMarch 2, 2020 0

Automation with containers: the power to get things done

SAS R&D's Brent Laster, a DevOps director, describes the ease and efficiency of switching SAS software on and off using containers.

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Francois Jaussaud

Francois JaussaudFebruary 28, 2020 0

Conseiller financier dans la banque : un métier en grand péril

Avec l'avènement de l'intelligence artificielle, les banques risquent d'être reléguées à leur plus simple expression : celle de fournisseur de produits financiers. Fini le conseil humain. Fini l'agence. Il faut se préparer à cette révolution, avertit François Jaussaud. La prochaine offensive des Gafa (et des BATX, leurs homologues chinois) visera

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Suzanne MorgenFebruary 26, 2020 0

Propensity Score Estimation with PROC PSMATCH and PROC LOGISTIC

Do you wish you could predict the likelihood that one of your customers will open your marketing email? Or what if you could tell whether a new medical treatment for a patient will have a better outcome than the standard treatment? If you are familiar with propensity modeling, then you

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Communications | Education | Health Care | Life Sciences | Retail

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Charlie ChaseFebruary 26, 2020 0

Are you suffering from demand planner spreadsheet overload?

Is it getting harder and harder to find empty Excel spreadsheets cells, as you run out of columns and rows? Do your spreadsheet cell labels have more letters than the license plate on your car? Do you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night in cold

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Government | Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinFebruary 26, 2020 0

The binormal model for ROC curves

The ROC curve is a graphical method that summarizes how well a binary classifier can discriminate between two populations, often called the "negative" population (individuals who do not have a disease or characteristic) and the "positive" population (individuals who do have it). As shown in a previous article, there is

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Analytics

SAS y Financiera Tuya: una puerta abierta al mundo crediticio en Colombia

José Luis Reyes

José Luis ReyesFebruary 25, 2020 0

Analítica y Omnicanalidad, capacidades indispensables para innovar y competir en retail

Los avances recientes de la analítica, en conjunto con la Inteligencia Artificial y las soluciones de la Nube están logrando consolidar nuevas oportunidades dentro del sector retail, las cuales facilitan las operaciones de las empresas ayudándoles a ser más eficientes en la optimización de inventario, automatización de pronósticos, análisis de

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Analytics

Kleber Wedemann

Kleber WedemannFebruary 19, 2020 0

¿Qué pasa cuando algo tan poderoso como IA libera el potencial del talento humano?

Este paradigma implica cambios en la cultura de las organizaciones a través de la combinación de Innovación, Talento y Tecnología. Pero la transformación digital va más allá de generar utilidades y reducir costos, implica también la transformación de la manera en la vida, cómo nos comunicamos y cómo trabajamos. Existe

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Communications | Government

Analytics

Mike GillilandFebruary 19, 2020 0

2 first steps to effecting forecasting process change

What if you suspect something is wrong with your forecasting process? What if the process is consuming too much time and too many resources, while still delivering unsatisfactory results (lousy forecasts). What can you do about it? This post looks at the first two steps to effecting meaningful forecasting process

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Kris StobbeFebruary 19, 2020 0

Building Machine Learning Models by Integrating Python and SAS® Viya®

SAS' Kris Stobbe shows how you can predict survival rates of Titanic passengers with a combination of both Python and CAS using SWAT, then see how the models performed.

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Analytics

Oliver Schabenberger

Oliver SchabenbergerFebruary 17, 2020 0

4 principles of analytics you cannot ignore

Maybe you are new to AI and analytics. Or maybe you have been working with data and analytics for decades, even before we called this work data science or decision science. As the industry has broadened from statistics and analytics to big data and artificial intelligence, some things have remained

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinFebruary 17, 2020 0

Visualize collinearity diagnostics

A previous article shows how to interpret the collinearity diagnostics that are produced by PROC REG in SAS. The process involves scanning down numbers in a table in order to find extreme values. This can be a tedious and error-prone process. Friendly and Kwan (2009) compare this task to a

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Analytics | Learn SAS | SAS Events

Tricia JenkinsFebruary 13, 2020 0

Experience SAS Global Forum: A First-Timer’s View & Tip Sheet

If you’re a SAS user, you know that SAS Global Forum is where you want to be! It’s our premier, can’t-miss event for SAS professionals—that includes thousands of users, executives, partners and academics. It’s also our largest users’ event, organized by users, for users, and this year’s event marks our

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Analytics | SAS Events

Jenn ChaseFebruary 13, 2020 0

3 people I can’t wait to meet at SAS Global Forum

What do a Pulitzer prize-winning author, an Emmy award-winning TV personality and one of the top 5 influencers in the world have in common? They’ll all be at SAS Global Forum this year. It’s where analytics enthusiasts and executive thought leaders meet to share strategies, get training in abundance, and

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

Sophia RowlandFebruary 12, 2020 0

An Easy Button for Data Science in Python

This blog is a part of a series on the Data Science Pilot Action Set. In this blog we review all nine actions in Python. Have you noticed the button bar in the upper right-hand corner of the SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning Programming Guide? This button bar

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Analytics

Hidden Insights: Pots, Tupperwares and Containers SAS

Vanessa Hurhangee

Vanessa HurhangeeFebruary 12, 2020 0

An Introduction to SAS for Containers

Having trouble easily moving software from one environment to another? Surely this ought to be an uncomplicated process, especially in the modern age of technology! However, let us consider an analytical model built in a design environment to detect fraudulent credit card transactions. This is now ready to be rolled

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Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinFebruary 12, 2020 0

The Johnson system: Which distribution should you choose to model data?

The Johnson system (Johnson, 1949) contains a family of four distributions: the normal distribution, the lognormal distribution, the SB distribution, and the SU distribution. Previous articles explain why the Johnson system is useful and show how to use PROC UNIVARIATE in SAS to estimate parameters for the Johnson SB distribution

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