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Find out how analytics, from data mining to cognitive computing, is changing the way we do business

Rick WicklinFebruary 26, 2020 0

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 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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Retail

Analytics

Kleber WedemannFebruary 19, 2020 0

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

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

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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 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 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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Analytics

Héctor CoboFebruary 11, 2020 0

La Inteligencia Artificial podría ser la solución contra el coronavirus

El coronavirus ha sido un tema importante en las noticias últimamente: es una enfermedad similar a la neumonía que ha cobrado la vida de varias personas. Se cree que comenzó en China y se ha extendido a varios otros países, por lo que debemos estar preparados en caso de que

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Health Care | Hospitality

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

David-Alexandre LaurieFebruary 10, 2020 0

NRF 2020 : Quelles tendances s’annoncent prédominantes pour le retail en 2020 ?

Alors que certains annonçaient encore récemment la mort du commerce de détail en magasin, prédiction confortée par la croissance explosive d'Amazon, nous avons clairement vu se profiler une seconde vie des magasins en nous promenant dans les couloirs du Javitz Center de New York pendant la NRF 2020. Le commerce

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Retail

Analytics

Joost HuiskensFebruary 10, 2020 0

The hospital as a data-driven organisation

The amount of data collected and analyzed by hospitals and health care organizations across the world was already on the rise, but the global pandemic has sharpened the focus on data even more. With trends changing not daily, but hourly, during the pandemic, health care professionals struggle to monitor larger

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

Sophia RowlandFebruary 5, 2020 0

Easier Feature Generation and New Data Science Pilot Actions

This blog is a part of a series on the Data Science Pilot Action Set. In this blog, we discuss updates to Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning with the release of Viya 3.5. In the middle of my blog series, SAS released Viya 3.5. Included in Viya 3.5 was the

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Analytics

Experimente sus nuevas posibilidades con analítica

Mauricio GonzálezFebruary 5, 2020 0

Retos del sector financiero: ¿cómo aprovechar al máximo las inversiones en analítica?

El sector financiero es de los más avanzados en el uso de las herramientas de analítica, en función del modelo analítico puede evaluarse el riesgo de crédito y cartera, cumplir con las regulaciones gubernamentales, determinar qué productos financieros ofrecer, entre muchas otras aplicaciones. Sin embargo, los bancos enfrentan el reto

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Banking

Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinFebruary 5, 2020 0

Visualize residual projections for linear regression

A SAS programmer wanted to create a graph that illustrates how Deming regression differs from ordinary least squares regression. The main idea is shown in the panel of graphs below. The first graph shows the geometry of least squares regression when we regress Y onto X. ("Regress Y onto X"

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Analytics

Carlos HernándezFebruary 4, 2020 0

Recomendaciones para permear una estrategia de Data Management en todos los niveles de la organización

El mundo se está transformando y con él todos los mercados. La Tecnología Analítica, La Inteligencia Artificial, el Internet de las Cosas y la Cuarta Revolución Industrial son temas que conforman la Transformación Digital de las empresas y tienen la capacidad de mejorar el desempeño y los procesos de

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Onur DincFebruary 3, 2020 0

A new line of defence for AML teams?

Recent high-profile money laundering cases have affected the reputation of the EU's financial system. In response, the European Commission is taking immediate action – faster than ever – to close the gaps. On November 2018, only six months after the adoption of the Fifth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), the

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Banking

Analytics

Hidden Insights - Do data scientists need evangelists

Marzena HubickaJanuary 31, 2020 0

Do data scientists need evangelists?

Data science can be a bit of a lonely job. It’s a shortage specialty, so many data scientists may be the only ones employed by their company. But they still need to learn about what’s new and exciting in the data science world. I caught up with Josefin Rosén about

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Juan Sebastián NiñoJanuary 31, 2020 0

El secreto de los grandes del retail para mejorar la planificación de la demanda

El 2020 inició con la realización del NRF 2020, para muchos el principal evento de innovación y tecnología aplicadas al sector retail o comercio minorista en el mundo. Más allá de visiones como las del Experience 2030, The Future of Customer Experience is now o de charlas y exposiciones inspiradoras

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Retail

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Janice NewellJanuary 31, 2020 0

Driving faster value from analytics – how to deploy models and decisions quickly

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it affects our lives -- there are even AI toothbrushes! But how do businesses use AI to help them compete in the market? According to Gartner research, only half of all AI projects are deployed and 90% take more than three

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Insurance

Analytics | Risk Management

Renato FioriniJanuary 30, 2020 0

¿Cómo impacta la Inteligencia Artificial a la gestión del riesgo crediticio?

La gestión del riesgo de crédito, también conocida como gestión del riesgo crediticio, es uno de los principales desafíos que enfrentarán empresas de sectores como el financiero, el asegurador, de telecomunicaciones o comercio en este 2020. Es frecuente que muchas de estas empresas lo hagan pensando en dar cumplimiento a

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Banking | Insurance

Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinJanuary 29, 2020 0

Collinearity diagnostics: Should the data be centered?

In a previous article, I showed how to perform collinearity diagnostics in SAS by using the COLLIN option in the MODEL statement in PROC REG. For models that contain an intercept term, I noted that there has been considerable debate about whether the data vectors should be mean-centered prior to

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | SAS Events | Students & Educators

Jelena StankovicJanuary 29, 2020 0

Data science gives you power to change the world

Meet Stefan Stoyanov. He’s an MSc Business Analytics student with a passion for emerging technologies, ranging from artificial intelligence to augmented and virtual reality.

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Analytics | Data for Good | Machine Learning

Hidden Insights - Natural language processing in local government

Vanessa HurhangeeJanuary 28, 2020 0

Natural language processing in local government

Natural Language Processing can offer invaluable benefits to councils and increase resident satisfaction.

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Government

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJanuary 27, 2020 0

The Johnson SU distribution

The Johnson system (Johnson, 1949) contains a family of four distributions: the normal distribution, the lognormal distribution, the SB distribution (which models bounded distributions), and the SU distribution (which models unbounded distributions). Note that 'B' stands for 'bounded' and 'U' stands for 'unbounded.' A previous article explains the purpose of

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Analytics | Machine Learning

SAS ColombiaJanuary 24, 2020 0

Machine Learning para reducir los índices de fraude

Aunque el costo exacto es incalculable, las pérdidas por fraude representan aproximadamente el 5% de los ingresos anuales de una organización, según la Asociación de Examinadores de Fraude Certificados (ACFE). Se calcula que diariamente son saqueados más de 11 mil millones de dólares a la economía global producto de robos,

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Banking

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