Analytics | Data Visualization

Fernanda MolinaDecember 21, 2021 0

Exciting possibilities with text mining for consumer protection

It is increasingly possible to use text analytics to explore different types of data. When a news story this summer caught my eye, I decided to see if I could use SAS Visual Text Analytics (VTA) and SAS Visual Analytics (VA) on customer complaints to provide information that might be

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Government

Analytics

WooSeong JeonDecember 21, 2021 0

지불/결제 시장의 변화와 새로운 사기 위협

지불/결제(Payments) 사기는 악의를 가진 누군가가 다른 사람의 개인 결제 정보를 훔치거나 속여 빼낸 다음 해당 정보로 허위 또는 불법 거래에 사용할 때 발생합니다. 새로운 결제 수단이나 서비스가 인기를 끌 때마다 결제 환경과 트렌드가 바뀝니다. 사기범들도 마찬가지입니다. 그들은 새롭고 점점 더 교묘해지는 지불/결제 사기 수법을 개발하여 새로운 환경에 적응합니다. 사기범은 사기를

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Korean

Banking

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Harry SnartDecember 20, 2021 0

Transforming public sector customer experience with composite AI

Introduction In an era of high connectivity and instant gratification, the expectations of customer experience have never been higher. Customers do not simply want but rather expect accessible and responsive communication across a variety of channels. And for organisations, the risks have never been higher. Disgruntled users now have the

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Min-Gi ChoDecember 17, 2021 0

[AML 시리즈 #1] 자금세탁 방지 고도화를 위한 AI/ML 도입 방안

1회. 도입 목적과 범위, AML Compliance Analytics Maturity Model 자금세탁 방지 의무가 있는 대부분의 금융 기관과 기업은 자금세탁 방지와 관련된 컴플라이언스 업무 수행을 위해 막대한 인력, 시간, 비용, 노력을 투자하고 있습니다. 자금 세탁 방지 컴플라이언스는 FATF가 설립된 1989년 이후 자금세탁 방지(AML;Anti-Money Laundering), 테러자금조달 방지(CFT; Countering the Financing of Terrorism), 대량살상무기

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Korean

Banking

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

SAS ColombiaDecember 15, 2021 0

¿Cómo puede ayudar la IA responsable y humanista a construir mejores gobiernos?

La analítica, la inteligencia artificial, el machine learning y todas las nuevas ciencias encaminadas a aprovechar mejor los millones de datos que hay en la actualidad  tienen un gran impacto en el mundo -y lo tendrán aún más- en la medida en que incidan directamente en el progreso de la

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Spanish

Government

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Jeff AlfordDecember 15, 2021 0

The company you keep: How the SAS Hackathon is helping banks identify sustainability risks in their portfolios

The 2021 SAS Hackathon was a major success and teams are now signing up for the 2022 hackathon. We are inviting you to join us. The world has lots of problems in search of answers and it’s your chance to contribute some creative solutions. Here’s what the team from KPMG

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Banking

Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinDecember 15, 2021 0

A statistical palette of Christmas colors

Suppose you are creating a craft project for the Christmas holidays, and you want to choose a palette of Christmas colors to give it a cheery holiday appearance. You could use one of the many online collections of color palettes to choose a Christmas-themed palette. However, I didn't want to

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Cloud | SAS Events

David PopeDecember 14, 2021 0

Holiday fun: Data science things

It's that time of year again where I get to blend together a holiday song with analytics. This is the eighth year running and the 11th song. For 2021, I decided to take on a more modern holiday song, Arianna Grande's Winter Things. Data Science Things SQL and reporting ain’t

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English

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Adrian NigaDecember 13, 2021 0

Anti-money laundering measures need to go beyond banks

When considering anti-money laundering operations, it’s not unreasonable that most people would probably think first of banks and other financial institutions. These organizations are probably the most obvious place to deposit large sums of money, including those obtained from criminal activities. And are therefore the most important first line of

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Banking | Insurance

Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinDecember 13, 2021 0

A principal component analysis of color palettes

In a previous article, I visualized seven Christmas-themed palettes of colors, as shown to the right. You can see that the palettes include many red, green, and golden colors. Clearly, the colors in the Christmas palettes are not a random sample from the space of RGB colors. Rather, they represent

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Andrew FowkesDecember 10, 2021 0

Creating a personalised retail experience that stands out from the crowd

Nearly everyone in retail knows the value of personalisation. Getting there, however, can be a problem. Here’s how your retail store can be a business that better understands the customer. Personalising the shopping experience is the surest way to the consumer’s pocket. Consumers buy more and buy more often when

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Retail

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Cloud

Marilyn MalpusDecember 10, 2021 0

Building a smarter, more sustainable future with 5G

From powering driverless vehicles to tackling the global climate crisis, 5G networks will play a huge role in shaping the future of our society. How can CSPs remove barriers to innovation and drive positive change? 5G technology holds transformative potential for business, individuals and society. However, successfully realizing the true

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English

Analytics

Alex CoopDecember 10, 2021 0

The future of AI from 5 influential figures

There is no shortage of challenges associated with the deployment of AI: a lack of access to infrastructure, a lack of skills, and new legislation meant to enforce the responsible use of this evolving technology. But the most consequential questions facing us are innately human. Namely, ensuring human agency, safety

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English

Analytics

Jong-Phil ParkDecember 10, 2021 0

SAS와 Microsoft의 초자동화(Hyper Automation)

Hyper Automation, 초(超) 자동화 제조, 여신, 물류 등의 산업군 및 마케팅, 영업 등의 직군에 종사하신다면 자동화(Automation)라는 용어는 그리 낮 설지 않은 용어일 것 입니다. 자동화는 인간의 노동 효율을 극대화하기 위해 인간의 개입을 최소화 하고 기계 또는 컴퓨터의 능력을 활용하는 방향으로 진화해 왔습니다. 예를 들어 마케팅 영역에서의 자동화의 경우, 마케팅 전략을

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Korean

Analytics

Oliver SheerinDecember 8, 2021 0

Part 3: Marketing analytics is broken. Here's how to fix it.

I’ve written before about how most marketing leaders are underwhelmed by the results they’re getting from marketing analytics, and how intelligent hyperautomation offers the potential to transform performance  by shifting from traditional manual campaign generation and execution to an event-driven approach to marketing. The next question is how to put

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English

Analytics

Caslee SimsDecember 6, 2021 0

Preparing for the next disruption: our 2022 analytics predictions

We made bold predictions a year ago about what 2021 would bring. We’re bold enough to do it again for 2022. The pandemic disrupted traditional ways of life in 2021. Remote learning and working became the norm for many. Telehealth took off, and IT modernization accelerated in every industry. 2021

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinDecember 6, 2021 0

The expected number of points on a convex hull

While discussing how to compute convex hulls in SAS with a colleague, we wondered how the size of the convex hull compares to the size of the sample. For most distributions of points, I claimed that the size of the convex hull is much less than the size of the

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence | Machine Learning

Lisa LoftisDecember 3, 2021 0

Out with the old, in with the new: 3 strategies for addressing the demise of cookies

The clock is ticking as the end of third-party data is near. Safari and Firefox have eliminated third-party cookies and Google Chrome is not far behind. Below are three steps marketers can take to address the changing cookie landscape: Create moments that matter by providing a digital experience that convinces

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Falko SchulzDecember 2, 2021 0

Fighting the Amazon forest fires with advanced analytics

A team of SAS employees recently participated in a data-for-good project focusing on forest fires in the Amazon. In conjunction with the Amazon Conservation Association (ACA), the team explored options to collect and analyze publicly available imagery and fire data to better understand the drivers for forest fires as well

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English

Analytics

Burak BaskinDecember 1, 2021 0

Applying analytics to reduce violence against women: Lessons from VioGén

Around the world, violence against women is a huge problem. It has personal, social and economic costs. One study in Europe, for example, estimated that the cost of violence against women runs into hundreds of billions of euros each year. Law enforcement agencies are key to reducing and preventing violence

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English

Analytics

Melody Schopp, PhDDecember 1, 2021 0

Using data to understand the pandemic’s impact on individual K-12 learners

Whatever you choose to call it – learning loss, learning disruption, or unfinished learning – there is widespread agreement among educators, parents, and other caregivers focused on the needs of K-12 learners that COVID-19-related disruptions had a serious impact on their education. But dig a little deeper and the story

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English

Education

Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinDecember 1, 2021 0

Beware of repeated values in loess models

Did you know that the loess regression algorithm is not well-defined when you have repeated values among the explanatory variables, and you request a very small smoothing parameter? This is because loess regression at the point x0 is based on using the k nearest neighbors to x0. If x0 has

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

SAS ColombiaNovember 30, 2021 0

Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural, la inteligencia artificial en la era de los metaversos

Recientemente el mundo empezó a hablar con mayor frecuencia de los metaversos, una nueva experiencia en materia de conectividad que llevará a los usuarios a vivir asombrosas experiencias inmersivas y multisensoriales a través de novedosos dispositivos y plataformas tecnológicas. Aún cuando todavía hay muchos interrogantes y alternativas de cómo es

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Spanish

Communications

Analytics | Learn SAS

Spiros PotamitisNovember 30, 2021 0

5 things you should know about SAS® Visual Forecasting

SAS Visual Forecasting is a powerful and flexible tool that can cover all the forecasting needs of an organisation. Users can automatically produce large-scale time series analyses and hierarchical forecasts – without human involvement. Having both a friendly user interface and a programmatic interface allows everyone to take part in

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English

Analytics

David FergusonNovember 30, 2021 0

Taking the first steps towards collections optimisation

The COVID-19 pandemic is triggering a debt collection crisis for the energy and utilities sector. How can collections teams control an explosion in delinquent accounts? The collections process is a vital component of any provider's business model, but it’s often an area that doesn’t receive the attention or investment it

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Sandra HernandezNovember 29, 2021 0

Más marketing analítico para impactar la tendencia phygital

Según explica el sitio especializado Marketing4ecommerce, “el término phygital hace referencia a la conexión de dos entornos: el online y el offline (physical o físico + digital: phygital). En concreto, habla de integrar lo mejor del mundo físico y del digital para así crear un ecosistema de comunicación dinámico entre

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Spanish

Communications

Analytics

Oliver SheerinNovember 29, 2021 0

Part 2: Marketing analytics is broken. Here’s how to fix it.

In the first part of this blog series, we explored a peculiar phenomenon. A recent Gartner survey indicates that over 50% of marketing leaders are “unimpressed by the results they receive from marketing analytics investments”, yet 85% predicted “significantly more” use of analytics by 2022. If the current approach isn’t

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English

Analytics

Julia MaurerNovember 24, 2021 0

Agil bedeutet nicht chaotisch 

Die agile Arbeitsweise wird von vielen in Zusammenhang mit Softwareentwicklung gebracht. Wie im vorherigen Blogbeitrag zur agilen Transformation bereits erwähnt, hat SAS Ende 2020 die agile Transformation im Bereich Pipelineentwicklung / Demand-Generation vorangetrieben und durch die Vorteile des agilen Arbeitens auf den Bedarf an effizienterer Zusammenarbeit und mehr Fokus in

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German

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Colin GrayNovember 24, 2021 0

Using data to tell a story might be the most important skill

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more ubiquitous, organisations are starting to encounter a big issue: explainability. European law requires that organisations need to be able to explain decisions about individuals, such as whether to grant a loan, extend a line of credit, or even to start a fraud investigation. This

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English

Education

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Lisa WyverNovember 23, 2021 0

Payment scams are spiraling. How can businesses respond?

Fast-changing payment scams are on the rise. Learn how to fight back.

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English