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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Students & Educators

Sofia RealDecember 17, 2020 0

A ponte perfeita entre o mundo académico e o mundo empresarial

No início de 2020, numa parceria entre a Universidade de Lisboa e o SAS Portugal, foi criada a disciplina Practical Statistics and Data Science. Esta disciplina passou a fazer parte do plano de estudos do Mestrado em Matemática Aplicada à Economia e Gestão da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinDecember 17, 2020 0

Find a vector that has a specified correlation with another vector

Do you know that you can create a vector that has a specific correlation with another vector? That is, given a vector, x, and a correlation coefficient, ρ, you can find a vector, y, such that corr(x, y) = ρ. The vectors x and y can have an arbitrary number

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Yuri RuedaDecember 16, 2020 0

Cinco tendencias en fraude a las que estar atentos en 2021

Ganar dinero fácil a expensas de bancos y usuarios seguirá siendo el principal objetivo de los ciberdelincuentes por mucho tiempo. La carrera entre estos y los encargados de la seguridad de las instituciones financieras es continua: a medida que se implementan mecanismos de seguridad más avanzados, los ataques y las

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Analytics

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Sébastien Verhelst

Sébastien VerhelstDecember 15, 2020 0

Connect your IoT-dots backwards

The infinite game-changer to monetize your analytics opportunities Does your factory still belong to the minor 11 percent saying that 5G is not on your radar? This means your factory is not planning to realize benefits from use cases like remote predictive maintenance, time-critical process optimization, automated visual quality inspection,

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

La era de la inteligencia artificial empática

Guilherme ReisDecember 15, 2020 0

Mayor valor y madurez digital, la nueva cara del ROI

El retorno de la inversión (ROI) es el parámetro por excelencia para dimensionar la efectividad de los proyectos de TI. Conocer el tiempo en que dicha inversión se recuperará y comenzará a brindar los beneficios planeados a la organización ha sido el termómetro para medir el éxito y el punto

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Banking | Retail

Analytics | Data for Good | Students & Educators

Jen SabourinDecember 15, 2020 0

Evaluating media claims: Just because it's 'based on data' doesn't make it true

Editor's note: This blog post is part of a series of posts, originally published here by our partner News Literacy Project, exploring the role of data in understanding our world. Every day people use data to better understand the world. This helps them make decisions and measure impacts. But how do we take raw

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Angie Edgington

Angie EdgingtonDecember 14, 2020 0

8 analytics targets for manufacturers in 2021

The changes we have seen during 2020 have prompted a lot of soul-searching. Around the globe and across industry sectors, companies are looking at ways they can improve how they do business. My conversations with clients suggest manufacturing companies recognize we have reached a tipping point. Adopting analytics and using

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinDecember 14, 2020 0

Segmented regression models in SAS

A segmented regression model is a piecewise regression model that has two or more sub-models, each defined on a separate domain for the explanatory variables. For simplicity, assume the model has one continuous explanatory variable, X. The simplest segmented regression model assumes that the response is modeled by one parametric

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Analytics

Pete BerrymanDecember 10, 2020 0

Competing in the big leagues with or without big money

In recent years, we have seen some astronomical contracts given to professional athletes. Major League Baseball (MLB) has certainly had its share. One of its first notable “megadeals” was when Alex Rodriguez, the Seattle Mariners’ power-hitting shortstop, left the team to join the Texas Rangers in 2001. The Rangers committed

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Mike GillilandDecember 10, 2020 0

Webinar: Bridging the Gap Between Forecasting Theory and Practice

We seem to be in the height of webinar season, so please add one more to your calendar, brought to you by SAS, CT Global Solutions, and the International Institute of Forecasters: I'll be delivering a short introduction, covering the disappointing state of real life business forecasting in contrast to

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | SAS Events

Jorge ZafraDecember 9, 2020 0

¿Hasta dónde puede llegar la Inteligencia Artificial?

Tradicionalmente, cuando hablábamos de tecnología y comparábamos sus posibilidades con las de los seres humanos nos encontrábamos con una barrera: su capacidad de creación. Pero este aspecto ya ha empezado a cambiar. La Inteligencia Artificial, a través de modelos computacionales de redes neuronales, permite ya generar textos, imágenes o temas

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Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinDecember 9, 2020 0

Horn's method: A simulation-based method for retaining principal components

One purpose of principal component analysis (PCA) is to reduce the number of important variables in a data analysis. Thus, PCA is known as a dimension-reduction algorithm. I have written about four simple rules for deciding how many principal components (PCs) to keep. There are other methods for deciding how

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Héctor CoboDecember 8, 2020 0

Inteligencia artificial en México, un mercado que madura

En algún momento, la inteligencia artificial (IA) y el machine learning (ML) parecían algo complicado y costoso para las empresas. Hoy, su efectividad y ubicuidad les ha abierto la puerta para incorporarlos a distintas actividades productivas. Ya no se cuestiona su relevancia. Actualmente, las organizaciones están conscientes de que el

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Banking | Energy & Utilities | Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Tiffany Carpenter

Tiffany CarpenterDecember 8, 2020 0

Disruption disrupted: How COVID-19 put the customer back into digital transformation

Companies have been talking about disruption for years. The word appears in every other top-level business meeting – yet the revolution hasn’t happened. Many businesses have little to show for it. In truth, disruption needs more than enthusiasm. Without a strategy, organisations have simply transformed long, complicated paper processes into

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Analytics

Leo SadovyDecember 8, 2020 0

Fools rush in … trends and predictions for 2021

COVID-19 has upset nearly every prediction and business plan for 2020 across the planet. Making predictions for 2021 may seem like a fool’s errand at this point, but many trends and consequences are already obvious and emerging from the global pandemic. The last global pandemic of this magnitude, the Spanish

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinDecember 7, 2020 0

Can you transplant an indoor Christmas tree?

"O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, how lovely are your branches!" The idealized image of a Christmas tree is a perfectly straight conical tree with lush branches and no bare spots. Although this ideal exists only on Christmas cards, forest researchers are always trying to develop trees that approach the

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Analytics

Mariana Fontanezi

Mariana FontaneziDecember 4, 2020 0

O machine learning e o time series para o planejamento da demanda

O planejamento da demanda é uma das tarefas mais complicadas dentro das grandes empresas. Resumidamente, ele consiste na capacidade de se planejar para que o produto certo esteja disponível no momento certo, na quantidade correta e no local certo. Ou seja: é ele quem garante que sempre que o cliente

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Lice,nce to scale

Mouloud DeyDecember 4, 2020 0

Mourir peut attendre… No time to die

Data, IA et transformation numérique pour l'Industrie du Futur. Fini de jouer ! Sans une approche industrielle c'est "No future" ! Les diamants sont éternels… KHEPRI, divinité mythologique de l’Égypte ancienne symbolisant la renaissance matinale du soleil, aurait inspiré le logo d’une marque automobile centenaire, véhicule de fonction culte d’un célèbre agent

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Alison BolenDecember 2, 2020 0

8 trends to watch for analytics in 2021

We've turned some of our most notable predictions for next year into a slide show. Click the orange "next" button to see these 2021 predictions from SAS. Who’s brave enough to make predictions for next year after the unpredictable year we just had? We are. After all, the disruptive

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinDecember 2, 2020 0

How to score a logistic regression model that was not fit by PROC LOGISTIC

A SAS customer asked a great question: "I have parameter estimates for a logistic regression model that I computed by using multiple imputations. How do I use these parameter estimates to score new observations and to visualize the model? PROC LOGISTIC can do the computation I want, but how do

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Analytics | Data for Good | Students & Educators

Jen SabourinDecember 1, 2020 0

Is data cited in the news accurate? It depends on how it was collected.

Editor's note: This blog post is part of a series of posts, originally published here by our partner News Literacy Project, exploring the role of data in understanding our world. As discussed in previous posts, statistics and visual representations of data can be misleading. But what happens when the data itself is misleading? And if data is

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Analytics | Machine Learning

Matthew Stainer

Matthew StainerNovember 30, 2020 0

A new cool machine learning technique?

I believe the most important part of the analytics lifecycle is defining the business question being asked.

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Analytics

Rick WicklinNovember 30, 2020 0

Intransitive dice

Most games of skill are transitive. If Player A wins against Player B and Player B wins against Player C, then you expect Player A to win against Player C, should they play. Because of this, you can rank the players: A > B > C Interestingly, not all games

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Analytics

Hidden Insights - The Ministry of Collections

Brian HoldenNovember 26, 2020 0

The Ministry of Collections

How banks and government could work together to solve the UK’s burgeoning debt crisis

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Conozca cinco formas en las que las empresas pueden mejorar sus estrategias de marketing con la ayuda de la inteligencia artificial:

SAS ColombiaNovember 25, 2020 0

Pensamiento analítico y capacidad de innovar, las principales habilidades que se requieren para poder trabajar en 2025

Recientemente, fueron publicados los resultados del Informe sobre el Futuro de los Empleos del Foro Económico Mundial, el cual no solo traza el mapa de lo que serán los empleos y las habilidades del futuro, sino que tiene en consideración el impacto que producirá en la forma de trabajar en la

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Analytics

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Mike GillilandNovember 25, 2020 0

Webinar: What do we need to know about FVA?

On Friday Nov 27, 2:00pm GMT (9:00am EST in the US), Robert Fildes is presenting his latest research in the webinar "What do we need to know about Forecast Value Added?" This is part of the Lancaster University Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting's "CMAF Friday Forecasting Talks." Here is

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Analytics

Frank SilvaNovember 24, 2020 0

Why teams should draft more offensive linemen

In football, five out of the 11 players on offense are on the field to accomplish one goal: keep the defenders as far away from the ball as possible. Sometimes it’s more than five. Teams will bring extra linemen on short-play packages. Tight ends and full backs might check in

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Analytics

Alfabetización de datos, Qlik

Mathias CoopmansNovember 24, 2020 0

ModelOps voor schaalbare analytics in de publieke sector

We kunnen er niet meer omheen, data en analytics zijn overal aanwezig in ons dagelijks leven. In organisaties groot en klein wordt de behoefte om eindelijk eens iets met de data te gaan doen alsmaar sterker. We kunnen zo enkele vraagstukken in onze samenleving opnoemen die we met data en

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence

José Luis Reyes

José Luis ReyesNovember 24, 2020 0

La nueva omnicanalidad en acción durante el Buen Fin 2020

La décima edición del Buen Fin, el evento comercial más importante en México, será relativamente distinta a las de años anteriores: la pandemia por COVID-19 y el cierre de las tiendas físicas durante una larga temporada aceleraron la digitalización de los retailers en la carrera por brindar a los consumidores

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Analytics | Data for Good

Josh MorganNovember 23, 2020 0

3 ways data can help homeless youth

What comes to mind when you think of a “homeless person”? Chances are, you’ll picture an adult, probably male, dirty, likely with some health conditions, including a mental illness. Few of us would immediately recall homeless individuals as family members, neighbors, co-workers and other loved ones. Fewer still are likely aware of how many youths (both minors and young adults) experience homelessness annually. Homeless youth is a population who can

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